Probing entanglement in a 2D hard-core Bose–Hubbard lattice
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Google Quantum AI, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Wellesley College, MA (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Lexington, MA (United States). Lincoln Lab.
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Lexington, MA (United States). Lincoln Lab.
- Laboratory for Physical Sciences, College Park, MD (United States)
Entanglement and its propagation are central to understanding many physical properties of quantum systems. Notably, within closed quantum many-body systems, entanglement is believed to yield emergent thermodynamic behaviour. However, a universal understanding remains challenging owing to the non-integrability and computational intractability of most large-scale quantum systems. Quantum hardware platforms provide a means to study the formation and scaling of entanglement in interacting many-body systems. Here we use a controllable 4 × 4 array of superconducting qubits to emulate a 2D hard-core Bose–Hubbard (HCBH) lattice. We generate superposition states by simultaneously driving all lattice sites and extract correlation lengths and entanglement entropy across its many-body energy spectrum. We observe volume-law entanglement scaling for states at the centre of the spectrum and a crossover to the onset of area-law scaling near its edges.
- Research Organization:
- National Quantum Information Science (QIS) Research Centers (United States). Quantum Systems Accelerator (QSA)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- OSTI ID:
- 2471677
- Journal Information:
- Nature (London), Journal Name: Nature (London) Journal Issue: 8012 Vol. 629; ISSN 0028-0836
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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