Quantum simulations of interacting systems with broken time-reversal symmetry

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2205.11178
• Publication Date: 2022-01-01
• Authors: Yotam Shapira; Tom Manovitz; Nitzan Akerman; Ady Stern; Roee Ozeri
• Keywords: T-symmetry

Many-body systems of quantum interacting particles in which time-reversal symmetry is broken give rise to a variety rich collective behaviors, and are therefore major target research modern physics. Quantum simulators can potentially be used explore understand such systems, often beyond the computational reach classical simulation. Of these, platforms with universal control experimentally access wide range physical properties. However, simultaneously achieving strong programmable interactions, breaking, high fidelity scalable manner challenging. Here we realized simulations interacting, trapped-ion processor. Using scheme that was recently proposed implemented breaking synthetic gauge fields, shown for first time trapped ion chain, along unique coupling geometries, extendable simulation multi dimensional systems. Our single-site resolution measurement, highly allow us perform full state tomography ground showcasing persistent current, observe dynamics system nontrivial interactions. results open path towards many-body features geometries.