Locality and entanglement properties across the many-body spectrum in a 4x4 array of superconducting qubits (part 1): Theory

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Abstract

The spectrum of a strongly interacting system can display properties of localization and entanglement that cannot be understood in terms of single-particle physics. In this work, we use a two-dimensional 4x4 array of superconducting transmon qubits as a quantum simulator to explore these properties in the strongly-interacting hard-core Bose-Hubbard model. Using the simultaneous control and readout capability of our system, we generate non-thermal, coherent excited states in the lattice, and probe its many-body spectrum and properties to observe the transition between local and delocalized many-body modes. In this part of the talk we discuss the theoretical background and experimental concept.

*This research was funded in part by the National Science Foundation under grants PHY-1720311 and 1839197; and by the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering under Air Force Contract No. FA8702-15-D-0001. The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsements, either expressed or implied, of the U.S. Government.

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Presenters

  • Yariv Yanay

    • Laboratory for Physical Sciences

Authors

  • Yariv Yanay

    • Laboratory for Physical Sciences

  • Amir H Karamlou

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MI
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Agustin Di Paolo

    • Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    • Universite de Sherbrooke
    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Patrick M Harrington

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MI
    • Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Sarah E Muschinske

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MI
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

  • Jochen Braumueller

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • David K Kim

    • MIT Lincoln Lab
    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Alexander Melville

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory
    • MIT Lincoln Lab

  • Bethany M Niedzielski

    • MIT Lincoln Lab
    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Jonilyn L Yoder

    • MIT Lincoln Lab
    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Mollie E Schwartz

    • MIT Lincoln Lab
    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Jeffrey A Grover

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MI
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Northrop Grumman - Mission Systems
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Simon Gustavsson

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Charles Tahan

    • Laboratory for Physical Sciences

  • William D Oliver

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Laboratory of Electronics
    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology