Observing Topological Insulator Phases with a Programmable Quantum Simulator

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10362v1
• Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 20:10:28 GMT
• Title: Observing Topological Insulator Phases with a Programmable Quantum Simulator
• Authors: Or Katz, Lei Feng, Diego Porras, Christopher Monroe
• Abstract summary: Topological insulators exhibit fascinating properties such as the appearance of edge states protected by symmetries. We experimentally implement a modified SSH model with long-range interacting spin systems in one-dimensional trapped ion crystals of up to $22$ spins.
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• Abstract: Topological insulators exhibit fascinating properties such as the appearance of edge states protected by symmetries. The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is a canonical description of a one-dimensional quantum topological insulator. We experimentally implement a modified SSH model with long-range interacting spin systems in one-dimensional trapped ion crystals of up to $22$ spins. An array of tightly focused laser beams generates site-specific Floquet fields that control the bond dimerization of the spins, which when subject to reflection symmetry, exhibit signatures of topologically-protected edge states. We study the evolution of highly excited configurations with various ranges of the spin-spin interaction, revealing the nontrivial role of many-body fermionic-interaction terms on the resulting dynamics. These results allow direct quantum simulations of topological quantum degrees of freedom expected in exotic materials, but here with high control of individual spins and their interaction range.

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