Quantum simulation of string breaking dynamics
When two particles are bound by a confining potential (such as a quark and an anti-quark), pulling them apart will lead to the creation of additional particles that screen the potential, a process known as string breaking. We have recently demonstrated this phenomenon in a trapped ion quantum simulator.

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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)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:2410.13815String-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:2411.10652Quantum 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
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