2021/06/06 by Monika Aidelsburger, Luca Barbiero, A. Bermúdez +22 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Boson #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Deconfinement #Gauge boson #Gauge theory #Hubbard model #Lattice (music) #Lattice gauge theory #Physics #Quantum #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum chromodynamics #Quantum field theory #Quantum mechanics #Statistical physics #Superconductivity #Theoretical physics #cond-mat.quant-gas #cond-mat.str-el #hep-lat #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1098/rsta.2021.0064
published as Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 380, 20210064 (2021) · 12pp. review style
arxiv created 2021/06/06 · openalex publication_date 2021/12/20 · arxiv updated 2022/01/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The central idea of this review is to consider quantum field theory models relevant for particle physics and replace the fermionic matter in these models by a bosonic one. This is mostly motivated by the fact that bosons are more 'accessible' and easier to manipulate for experimentalists, but this 'substitution' also leads to new physics and novel phenomena. It allows us to gain new information about among other things confinement and the dynamics of the deconfinement transition. We will thus consider bosons in dynamical lattices corresponding to the bosonic Schwinger or [Formula: see text] Bose-Hubbard models. Another central idea of this review concerns atomic simulators of paradigmatic models of particle physics theory such as the Creutz-Hubbard ladder, or Gross-Neveu-Wilson and Wilson-Hubbard models. This article is not a general review of the rapidly growing field-it reviews activities related to quantum simulations for lattice field theories performed by the Quantum Optics Theory group at ICFO and their collaborators from 19 institutions all over the world. Finally, we will briefly describe our efforts to design experimentally friendly simulators of these and other models relevant for particle physics. This article is part of the theme issue 'Quantum technologies in particle physics'.