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Spatiotemporal dynamics of particle collisions in quantum spin chains

P. I. Karpov1,2,*, G.-Y. Zhu1,†, M. P. Heller3,4,‡, and M. Heyl1,§

  • 1Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, 01187 Dresden, Germany
  • 2Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Theresienstrasse 37, 80333 Munich, Germany
  • 3Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), 14476 Potsdam, Germany
  • 4Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

  • *karpov@pks.mpg.de
  • †guoyi@pks.mpg.de
  • ‡On leave from: National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw 02093, Poland; michal.p.heller@aei.mpg.de
  • §heyl@pks.mpg.de
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Phys. Rev. Research 4, L032001 – Published 1 July, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.L032001

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We show that quantum Ising chains provide a platform to realize and probe elastic and inelastic particle collisions in pristine form. The proposed setup allows us to monitor the whole spatiotemporal dynamics of the collision event. The considered Ising chains admit a natural realization in various quantum simulator platforms, and we discuss a potentially feasible implementation of our collision protocol in Rydberg atoms. We also argue that the results and techniques we introduce can be readily extended to lattice gauge theories and to a higher number of spatial dimensions.

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Phys. Rev. Research 4, L032001– Published 1 July, 2022
  • Received 10 December 2020
  • Revised 25 October 2021
  • Accepted 14 March 2022
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