String dynamics of a (2+1)D U(1) quantum link model on a digital quantum computer

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19601v1
• Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:11:32 GMT
• Title: String dynamics of a (2+1)D U(1) quantum link model on a digital quantum computer
• Abstract summary: (2+1)D U(1) pure gauge theory always exists in the confining phase, with strings of non-zero string tension.<n>This makes it a useful testing ground for quantum computing methods designed to study string dynamics of confining gauge theories.<n>We implement a minimal U(1) quantum link model on a quantum computer with qubit degrees of freedom representing the dual height variables of the model.
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• Abstract: The (2+1)D U(1) pure gauge theory always exists in the confining phase, with strings of non-zero string tension giving a characteristic linear potential between static charges. This makes it a useful testing ground for quantum computing methods designed to study string dynamics of confining gauge theories. Here we implement a minimal U(1) quantum link model on a quantum computer with qubit degrees of freedom representing the dual height variables of the model. This facilitates an efficient realization of plaquette interactions and enables effective calculations of real-time dynamics that are inaccessible to traditional quantum Monte Carlo. A specifically tailored lattice geometry is chosen to match the heavy-hexagonal geometry of the IBM quantum hardware used here, minimizing non-adjacent qubit interactions. By performing quantum quenches from a simple initial string state, we probe the transverse quantum fluctuations of the string before it thermalizes. Our experimental results from digital quantum simulations, with up to 112 qubits, show good agreement with reference tensor-network calculations at short times and with thermal averages at long times. Near the phase transition, the quench dynamics exhibit large fluctuations of the initial string that extend across both spatial dimensions of the lattice. Nonetheless, our error-mitigated estimators from the quantum hardware also give accurate predictions in that regime, with noise-induced violations of local gauge symmetries comparable to finite-bond-dimension tensor-network results.

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