Engineering quantum criticality and dynamics on an analog-digital simulator

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18555v1
• Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:00:00 GMT
• Title: Engineering quantum criticality and dynamics on an analog-digital simulator
• Authors: Alexandra A. Geim, Nazli Ugur Koyluoglu, Simon J. Evered, Rahul Sahay, Sophie H. Li, Muqing Xu, Dolev Bluvstein, Nik O. Gjonbalaj, Nishad Maskara, Marcin Kalinowski, Tom Manovitz, Ruben Verresen, Susanne F. Yelin, Johannes Feldmeier, Markus Greiner, Vladan Vuletic, Mikhail D. Lukin,
• Abstract summary: We use coherent mapping between the Rydberg and hyperfine qubits in a neutral atom array simulator to engineer and probe complex quantum dynamics.<n>We first demonstrate dynamical engineering of ring-exchange and particle hopping dynamics via Floquet driving.<n>We employ closed-loop optimization to target an out-of-equilibrium critical quantum spin liquid of the Rokhsar-Kivelson type.
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• Abstract: Understanding emergent phenomena in out-of-equilibrium interacting many-body systems is an exciting frontier in physical science. While quantum simulators represent a promising approach to this long-standing problem, in practice it can be challenging to directly realize the required interactions, measure arbitrary observables, and mitigate errors. Here we use coherent mapping between the Rydberg and hyperfine qubits in a neutral atom array simulator to engineer and probe complex quantum dynamics. We combine efficient analog dynamics with fully programmable state preparation and measurement, leverage non-destructive readout for loss information and atomic qubit reuse, and use an atom reservoir for replacing lost atoms. With this analog-digital approach, we first demonstrate dynamical engineering of ring-exchange and particle hopping dynamics via Floquet driving and measure the spectral function of single excitations by evolving initial superposition states. Extending these techniques to a 271-site kagome lattice, we employ closed-loop optimization to target an out-of-equilibrium critical quantum spin liquid of the Rokhsar-Kivelson type. We observe the key features of such a state, including the absence of local order, many-body coherences between nearly equal-amplitude dimer configurations over up to 18 sites, and universal correlations consistent with predictions from field theory. Together, these results pave the way for using dynamical control in analog-digital quantum simulators to study complex quantum many-body systems.

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