Quench Spectroscopy of Magnetic Excitations on a Superconducting Quantum Processor

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02673v1
• Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:09:19 GMT
• Title: Quench Spectroscopy of Magnetic Excitations on a Superconducting Quantum Processor
• Abstract summary: We use quench spectroscopy on a superconducting quantum processor to extract excitation spectra of spin chains of $L=101$ spins.<n> Notably, we demonstrate that the protocol does not rely on ground state preparation.<n>Our work establishes quench spectroscopy as a fast and flexible probe of many-body excitation spectra on digital quantum hardware.
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• Abstract: The elementary excitation spectrum of a many-body quantum system encodes many key properties, including phenomena as diverse as transport, thermalisation and ground state structure. Excitation spectra of strongly correlated systems are typically encoded in dynamical structure factors, which are demanding to measure experimentally and challenging to compute classically. Here we use quench spectroscopy on a superconducting quantum processor to extract excitation spectra of spin chains of $L=101$ spins. By tailoring the combination of quench protocol and observable, we selectively access distinct excitation sectors across several phases of the spin-$1/2$ XXZ chain, resolving free magnons, multi-magnon bound states, and two-spinon continua. Notably, we demonstrate that the protocol does not rely on ground state preparation: in the classically challenging gapless regime, we extract spectra directly from the quench dynamics of easily prepared product states, a procedure that is natural and straightforward on quantum hardware. Our work establishes quench spectroscopy as a fast and flexible probe of many-body excitation spectra on digital quantum hardware, introduces a novel quench protocol that does not require costly state preparation routines, and provides a scalable route towards regimes where classical simulation may become intractable.

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