Publications
Notable publications
Below we list all publications and preprints of group members since 2019.
2026
Preprints
Charge Transport Capacity as a Probe of Resonances in Models of Many-Body Localization
Jessica K. Jiang, Federica M. Surace, Olexei I. Motrunich
arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.18710
Weak integrability breaking perturbations in classical integrable models on the lattice
Sara Vanovac, Catherine McCarthy, Federica M. Surace, Olexei Motrunich
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.11712
2025
Journal Articles
Quasiconservation laws and suppressed transport in weakly interacting localized models
Jessica K. Jiang, Federica M. Surace, Olexei I. Motrunich
Phys. Rev. B 112, 184201 (2025)
Theory of metastable states in many-body quantum systems
Chao Yin, Federica M. Surace, Andrew Lucas
Phys. Rev. X 15, 011064 (2025)
Simulating meson scattering on spin quantum simulators
Elizabeth R Bennewitz, Brayden Ware, Alexander Schuckert, Alessio Lerose, Federica M Surace, Ron Belyansky, William Morong, De Luo, Arinjoy De, Kate S Collins, Or Katz, Christopher Monroe, Zohreh Davoudi, Alexey V Gorshkov
Quantum 9, 1773 (2025)
Preprints
Observation of ballistic plasma and memory in high-energy gauge theory dynamics
Daniel K. Mark, Federica M. Surace, Thomas Schuster, Adam L. Shaw, Wenjie Gong, Soonwon Choi, Manuel Endres
arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.11679
Quantum simulation of bubble nucleation across a quantum phase transition
De Luo, Federica Maria Surace, Arinjoy De, Alessio Lerose, Elizabeth R Bennewitz, Brayden Ware, Alexander Schuckert, Zohreh Davoudi, Alexey V Gorshkov, Or Katz, Christopher Monroe
arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.09607
2024
Journal Articles
Detecting a long lived false vacuum with quantum quenches
Gianluca Lagnese, Federica M. Surace, Sid Morampudi, Frank Wilczek
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 240402 (2024)
Finite-size generators for weak integrability breaking perturbations in the Heisenberg chain
Sara Vanovac, Federica M. Surace, Olexei Motrunic
Phys. Rev. B 110, 144309 (2024)
Unraveling PXP Many-Body Scars through Floquet Dynamics
Giuliano Giudici, Federica M. Surace, Hannes Pichler
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 190404 (2024)
A Maximum Entropy Principle in Deep Thermalization and in Hilbert-Space Ergodicity
Daniel K. Mark, Federica Surace, Andreas Elben, Adam L. Shaw, Joonhee Choi, Gil Refael, Manuel Endres, Soonwon Choi
Phys. Rev. X 14, 041051 (2024)
Scalable, ab initio protocol for quantum simulating SU(N)xU(1) Lattice Gauge Theories
Federica M. Surace, Pierre Fromholz, Francesco Scazza, Marcello Dalmonte
Quantum 8, 1359 (2024)
Robustness and eventual slow decay of bound states of interacting microwave photons in the Google Quantum AI experiment
Federica M. Surace, Olexei Motrunich
PRX Quantum 5, 010317 (2024)
Preprints
The Ising dual-reflection interface: symmetry, Majorana strong zero modes and SPT phases
Juliane Graf, Federica Maria Surace, Marcus Berg, Sergej Moroz
arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.06377
Probing false vacuum decay on a cold-atom gauge-theory quantum simulator
Zi-Hang Zhu, Ying Liu, Gianluca Lagnese, Federica Maria Surace, Wei-Yong Zhang, Ming-Gen He, Jad C Halimeh, Marcello Dalmonte, Siddhardh C Morampudi, Frank Wilczek, Zhen-Sheng Yuan, Jian-Wei Pan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.12565
String-Breaking Dynamics in Quantum Adiabatic and Diabatic Processes
Federica Maria Surace, Alessio Lerose, Or Katz, Elizabeth R Bennewitz, Alexander Schuckert, De Luo, Arinjoy De, Brayden Ware, William Morong, Kate Collins, Christopher Monroe, Zohreh Davoudi, Alexey V Gorshkov
arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.10652
Observation of string-breaking dynamics in a quantum simulator
Arinjoy De, Alessio Lerose, De Luo, Federica M Surace, Alexander Schuckert, Elizabeth R Bennewitz, Brayden Ware, William Morong, Kate S Collins, Zohreh Davoudi, Alexey V Gorshkov, Or Katz, Christopher Monroe
arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.13815
2023
Journal Articles
Weak integrability breaking perturbations of integrable models
Federica M. Surace, Olexei Motrunich
Phys. Rev. Research 5, 043019 (2023)
Ab initio derivation of lattice gauge theory dynamics for cold gases in optical lattices
Federica M. Surace, Pierre Fromholz, Nelson Darkwah Oppong, Marcello Dalmonte, Monika Aidelsburger
PRX Quantum 4, 020330 (2023)
Quantum local random networks and the statistical robustness of quantum scars
Federica M. Surace, Marcello Dalmonte, Alessandro Silva
SciPost Phys. 14, 174 (2023)
2022
Journal Articles
Trimer states with Z3 topological order in Rydberg atom arrays
Giuliano Giudici, Federica M. Surace, Hannes Pichler
Phys. Rev. B 106, 195155 (2022)
Gauge-theoretic origin of Rydberg quantum spin liquids
Poetri S. Tarabunga, Federica M. Surace, Riccardo Andreoni, Adriano Angelone, Marcello Dalmonte
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 195301 (2022)
Quenches and confinement in a Heisenberg-Ising spin ladder
Gianluca Lagnese, Federica M. Surace, Márton Kormos, Pasquale Calabrese
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 55, 124003 (2022)
Dissipative Floquet Dynamics: from Steady State to Measurement Induced Criticality in Trapped-ion Chains
Piotr Sierant, Giuliano Chiriacò, Federica M. Surace, Shraddha Sharma, Xhek Turkeshi, Marcello Dalmonte, Rosario Fazio, Guido Pagano
Quantum 6, 638 (2022)
2021
Journal Articles
False vacuum decay in quantum spin chains
Ginaluca Lagnese, Federica M. Surace, Márton Kormos, Pasquale Calabrese
Phys. Rev. B 104, L201106 (2021)
Scattering of mesons in quantum simulators
Federica M. Surace, Alessio Lerose
New J. Phys. 23, 062001 (2021)
Exact many-body scars and their stability in constrained quantum chains
Federica M. Surace, Matteo Votto, Eduardo Gonzalez Lazo, Alessandro Silva, Marcello Dalmonte, Giuliano Giudici
Phys. Rev. B 103, 104302 (2021)
2020
Journal Articles
Confinement in the spectrum of a Heisenberg-Ising spin ladder
Gianluca Lagnese, Federica M. Surace, Márton Kormos, Pasquale Calabrese
J. Stat. Mech. (2020), 093106
Weak-ergodicity-breaking via lattice supersymmetry
Federica M. Surace, Giuliano Giudici, Marcello Dalmonte
Quantum 4, 339 (2020)
Quantum clock models with infinite-range interactions
Adu Offei-Danso, Federica M. Surace, Fernando Iemini, Angelo Russomanno, Rosario Fazio
J. Stat. Mech. (2020) 073107
Breakdown of ergodicity in disordered U(1) lattice gauge theories
Giuliano Giudici, Federica M. Surace, Joel E. Ebot, Antonello Scardicchio, Marcello Dalmonte
Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032034(R) (2020)
Quasilocalized dynamics from confinement of quantum excitations
Alessio Lerose, Federica M. Surace, Paolo P. Mazza, Gabriele Perfetto, Mario Collura, Andrea Gambassi
Phys. Rev. B 102, 041118(R) (2020)
Homogeneous Floquet time crystal protected by gauge invariance
Angelo Russomanno, Simone Notarnicola, Federica M. Surace, Rosario Fazio, Marcello Dalmonte, Markus Heyl
Phys. Rev. Research 2, 012003 (2020)
Lattice Gauge Theories and String Dynamics in Rydberg Atom Quantum Simulators
Federica M. Surace, Paolo P. Mazza, Giuliano Giudici, Alessio Lerose, Andrea Gambassi, Marcello Dalmonte
Phys. Rev. X 10, 021041 (2020)
2019
Journal Articles
Floquet time crystals in clock models
Federica M. Surace, Angelo Russomanno, Alessandro Silva, Marcello Dalmonte, Rosario Fazio, Fernando Iemini
Phys. Rev. B 99, 104303 (2019)