Chiral and bond-ordered phases in a triangular-ladder superconducting-qubit quantum simulator

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.16993v1
• Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:00:00 GMT
• Title: Chiral and bond-ordered phases in a triangular-ladder superconducting-qubit quantum simulator
• Abstract summary: We study a superconducting-qubit device that realizes the Bose-Hubbard model on a triangular-ladder lattice.<n>By tuning the magnitude and sign of couplings, we engineer a synthetic magnetic flux to characterize the resulting half-filling ground state.<n>Our results establish superconducting circuits as a platform for robustly probing quantum phases of matter in frustrated Bose-Hubbard systems.
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• Abstract: Many-body systems with strong interactions often exhibit macroscopic behavior markedly absent in single-particle or noninteracting limits. Such emergent phenomena are well exemplified in lattice Hubbard models, where the interplay between interactions, geometric frustration, and magnetic flux gives rise to rich physics. Superconducting qubits naturally enable analog quantum simulation of Bose-Hubbard models, while offering tunable parameters, site-resolved control, and rapid experimental repetition rates. Here, we study a superconducting-qubit device that realizes the Bose-Hubbard model on a triangular-ladder lattice. By tuning the magnitude and sign of couplings, we engineer a synthetic magnetic flux to characterize the resulting half-filling ground state for various parameter regimes. We measure observables analogous to current-current correlators and bond kinetic energies, finding signatures consistent with chiral superfluids, Meissner superfluids, and bond-ordered insulators. Our results establish superconducting circuits as a platform for robustly probing quantum phases of matter in frustrated Bose-Hubbard systems, even in strongly correlated and gapless regimes.

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