Journal article
Prolegomena to a hybrid classical-Rydberg simulator for hadronization
Physical review. D, Vol.114(3), 036017
08/2026
DOI: 10.1103/nc3s-4bvb
Abstract
Programmable neutral-atom arrays provide a promising route to real-time analog simulation of strongly interacting quantum systems. We introduce a two-leg Rydberg-atom ladder that realizes string dynamics and controllable particle production using experimentally accessible parameters. A mapping between local Rydberg occupations and an emergent electric field yields charge-anticharge pairs connected by dynamical strings. Classical simulations enforcing Rydberg blockade constraints identify regimes with suppressed entanglement spreading and tunable particle multiplicities, which are seen to be signatures of confinement and string breaking. Particle multiplicities typically grow monotonically with time and system size and depend sensitively on simulator detuning and interaction scales. These results establish the ladder geometry as a viable near-term analog quantum simulator of string fragmentation and motivate hybrid workflows in which quantum devices contribute nonperturbative real-time dynamics to event generation.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Prolegomena to a hybrid classical-Rydberg simulator for hadronization
- Creators
- Blake SensemanZane Ozzello - University of IowaKenneth Heitritter - University of IowaYannick Meurice - University of IowaStephen Mrenna - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Physical review. D, Vol.114(3), 036017
- DOI
- 10.1103/nc3s-4bvb
- ISSN
- 2470-0010
- eISSN
- 2470-0029
- Publisher
- American Physical Society; COLLEGE PK
- Grant note
- URA Visiting Scholars Program US Department of Energy: DE-SC0019139 U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics QuantISED program: 0000240323, DE-SC0019219 U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics: DEAC02-07CH11359
K. H. acknowledges support from the URA Visiting Scholars Program. B. S., Z. O, K. H., and Y. M. are supported in part by the US Department of Energy under Award No. DE-SC0019139. S. M. is supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics QuantISED program under the following grants: " HEP Machine Learning and Optimization Go Quantum, " Award No. 0000240323, and "DOE QuantiSED Consortium QCCFP-QMLQCF," Award No. DE-SC0019219. This manuscript has been authored by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, under Contract No. DEAC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics. This research was supported in part through computational resources provided by The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. We thank Erez Zohar, Johannes Knaute, Johannes Zeiher, Debasish Banerjee, Fangli Liu, members of the QuLAT collaboration, and QuEra Computing, Inc., for valuable comments and discussions.
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/2026
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9985219914602771
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