Thermalization and criticality on an analogue–digital quantum simulator

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2025年2月5日

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T. I. Andersen,
N. Astrakhantsev,
A. H. Karamlou,
J. Berndtsson,
J. Motruk,
A. Szasz,
J. A. Gross,
A. Schuckert,
T. Westerhout,
Y. Zhang,
E. Forati,
D. Rossi,
B. Kobrin,
A. Di Paolo,
A. R. Klots,
I. Drozdov,
V. Kurilovich,
A. Petukhov,
L. B. Ioffe,
A. Elben,
A. Rath,
V. Vitale,
B. Vermersch,
R. Acharya,
L. A. Beni,
K. Anderson,
M. Ansmann,
F. Arute,
K. Arya,
A. Asfaw,
J. Atalaya,
B. Ballard,
J. C. Bardin,
A. Bengtsson,
A. Bilmes,
G. Bortoli,
A. Bourassa,
J. Bovaird,
L. Brill,
M. Broughton,
D. A. Browne,
B. Buchea,
B. B. Buckley,
D. A. Buell,
T. Burger,
B. Burkett,
N. Bushnell,
A. Cabrera,
J. Campero,
H.-S. Chang,
Z. Chen,
B. Chiaro,
J. Claes,
A. Y. Cleland,
J. Cogan,
R. Collins,
P. Conner,
W. Courtney,
A. L. Crook,
S. Das,
D. M. Debroy,
L. De Lorenzo,
A. Del Toro Barba,
S. Demura,
P. Donohoe,
A. Dunsworth,
C. Earle,
A. Eickbusch,
A. M. Elbag,
M. Elzouka,
C. Erickson,
L. Faoro,
R. Fatemi,
V. S. Ferreira,
L. Flores Burgos,
A. G. Fowler,
B. Foxen,
S. Ganjam,
R. Gasca,
W. Giang,
C. Gidney,
D. Gilboa,
M. Giustina,
R. Gosula,
A. Grajales Dau,
D. Graumann,
A. Greene,
S. Habegger,
M. C. Hamilton,
M. Hansen,
M. P. Harrigan,
S. D. Harrington,
S. Heslin,
P. Heu,
G. Hill,
M. R. Hoffmann,
H.-Y. Huang,
T. Huang,
A. Huff,
W. J. Huggins,
S. V. Isakov,
E. Jeffrey,
Z. Jiang,
C. Jones,
S. Jordan,
C. Joshi,
P. Juhas,
D. Kafri,
H. Kang,
K. Kechedzhi,
T. Khaire,
T. Khattar,
M. Khezri,
M. Kieferová,
S. Kim,
A. Kitaev,
P. Klimov,
A. N. Korotkov,
F. Kostritsa,
J. M. Kreikebaum,
D. Landhuis,
B. W. Langley,
P. Laptev,
K.-M. Lau,
L. Le Guevel,
J. Ledford,
J. Lee,
K. W. Lee,
Y. D. Lensky,
B. J. Lester,
W. Y. Li,
A. T. Lill,
W. Liu,
W. P. Livingston,
A. Locharla,
D. Lundahl,
A. Lunt,
S. Madhuk,
A. Maloney,
S. Mandrà,
L. S. Martin,
O. Martin,
S. Martin,
C. Maxfield,
J. R. McClean,
M. McEwen,
S. Meeks,
K. C. Miao,
A. Mieszala,
S. Molina,
S. Montazeri,
A. Morvan,
R. Movassagh,
C. Neill,
A. Nersisyan,
M. Newman,
A. Nguyen,
M. Nguyen,
C.-H. Ni,
M. Y. Niu,
W. D. Oliver,
K. Ottosson,
A. Pizzuto,
R. Potter,
O. Pritchard,
L. P. Pryadko,
C. Quintana,
M. J. Reagor,
D. M. Rhodes,
G. Roberts,
C. Rocque,
E. Rosenberg,
N. C. Rubin,
N. Saei,
K. Sankaragomathi,
K. J. Satzinger,
H. F. Schurkus,
C. Schuster,
M. J. Shearn,
A. Shorter,
N. Shutty,
V. Shvarts,
V. Sivak,
J. Skruzny,
S. Small,
W. Clarke Smith,
S. Springer,
G. Sterling,
J. Suchard,
M. Szalay,
A. Sztein,
D. Thor,
A. Torres,
M. M. Torunbalci,
A. Vaishnav,
S. Vdovichev,
B. Villalonga,
C. Vollgraff Heidweiller,
S. Waltman,
S. X. Wang,
T. White,
K. Wong,
B. W. K. Woo,
C. Xing,
Z. Jamie Yao,
P. Yeh,
B. Ying,
J. Yoo,
N. Yosri,
G. Young,
A. Zalcman,
N. Zhu,
N. Zobrist,
H. Neven,
R. Babbush,
S. Boixo,
J. Hilton,
E. Lucero,
A. Megrant,
J. Kelly,
Y. Chen,
V. Smelyanskiy,
G. Vidal,
P. Roushan,
A. M. Läuchli,
D. A. Abanin,
X. Mi

摘要

Understanding how interacting particles approach thermal equilibrium is a major challenge of quantum simulators^1,2. Unlocking the full potential of such systems towards this goal requires flexible initial state preparation, precise time evolution and extensive probes for final state characterization. Here we present a quantum simulator comprising 69 superconducting qubits that supports both universal quantum gates and high-fidelity analogue evolution, with performance beyond the reach of classical simulation in cross-entropy benchmarking experiments. This hybrid platform features more versatile measurement capabilities compared with analogue-only simulators, which we leverage here to reveal a coarsening-induced breakdown of Kibble–Zurek scaling predictions³ in the XY model, as well as signatures of the classical Kosterlitz–Thouless phase transition⁴. Moreover, the digital gates enable precise energy control, allowing us to study the effects of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis^5–7 in targeted parts of the eigenspectrum. We also demonstrate digital preparation of pairwise-entangled dimer states, and image the transport of energy and vorticity during subsequent thermalization in analogue evolution. These results establish the efficacy of superconducting analogue–digital quantum processors for preparing states across many-body spectra and unveiling their thermalization dynamics.