Sprecher
Beschreibung
In confining theories, separating two charges results in the generation of new charges that screen the original ones. This process, known as “string breaking”, prevents isolation of individual charges and is one of the fundamental phenomena in gauge theories such as quantum chromodynamics, as well as in simpler models exhibiting confinement. The rapid development of analog and digital quantum simulators represents a promising path toward the ab initio simulation of real-time evolution in these models. In this talk, I will focus on the dynamics of string breaking in a trapped-ion quantum simulator. I will describe the observation of string breaking in the evolution after a quantum quench and in a non-equilibrium protocol where the string tension is gradually increased over time.
