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Three-qubit encoding in ytterbium-171 atoms for simulating 1+1D QCD

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18426v2
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 01:32:06 GMT
Title: Three-qubit encoding in ytterbium-171 atoms for simulating 1+1D QCD
Authors: William Huie, Cianan Conefrey-Shinozaki, Zhubing Jia, Patrick Draper, Jacob P. Covey,
Abstract summary: We encode three qubits within individual ytterbium-171 atoms of a neutral atom quantum processor.<n>We show that two atoms are sufficient to simulate both vacuum persistence oscillations and string breaking.
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Abstract: Simulating nuclear matter described by quantum chromodynamics using quantum computers is notoriously inefficient because of the assortment of quark degrees of freedom such as matter/antimatter, flavor, color, and spin. Here, we propose to address this resource efficiency challenge by encoding three qubits within individual ytterbium-171 atoms of a neutral atom quantum processor. The three qubits are encoded in three distinct sectors: an electronic "clock" transition, the spin-1/2 nucleus, and the lowest two motional states in one radial direction of the harmonic trapping potential. We develop a family of composite sideband pulses and demonstrate a universal gate set and readout protocol for this three-qubit system. We then apply it to single-flavor quantum chromodynamics in 1+1D axial gauge for which the three qubits directly represent the occupancy of quarks in the three colors. We show that two atoms are sufficient to simulate both vacuum persistence oscillations and string breaking. We consider resource requirements and connections to error detection/correction. Our work is a step towards resource-efficient digital simulation of nuclear matter and opens new opportunities for versatile qubit encoding in neutral atom quantum processors.

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