Sprecher
Beschreibung
Arrays of neutral atoms in optical tweezers are an excellent setting for simulating the dynamics of quantum matter. Programmable control over each atom and their interactions in the array offers new capabilities for compiling Hamiltonians that are not amenable to direct analog simulations with global control, and it offers the possibility to perform simulations at the logical level to obviate physical errors. I will present two platforms that offer new capabilities to enable such digital simulations in a resource-efficient manner. First, with ytterbium-171 atom arrays, I will present methods to (1) encode multiple qubits within each atom, and (2) overcome the bottleneck of atom transport via a novel “streaming” architecture where atoms move with constant velocity. Second, with metastable helium-3 atom arrays, I will present methods to utilize the fermionic quantum statistics in addition to the motion of atoms in harmonic tweezer traps to natively encode itinerant fermions and Fermi-Bose interactions in a programmable simulator.