Sprecher
Beschreibung
While exciting recent progress in the quantum simulation of lattice gauge theories has been achieved, their scaling remains highly challenging. In this talk, I will present some of our recent progress on exploiting qudit systems, such as recently demonstrated in a universal trapped-ions device. I will discuss a recent proposal to use qudits to simulate lattice gauge theories in 2+1 dimensions. I will further present a theory study and proposal on the observation of fractional gauge fields in multiflavor models. Such fractional gauge fields have been predicted in semiclassical path-integral calculations and play a central role in chiral symmetry breaking, but how their effects persist in the strongly-coupled non-perturbative regime is an open question. As I will argue, quantum simulators offer a unique opportunity to enter this regime and permit extrapolation to continuum results even with existing resources.
