Snapshot based characterization of particle currents and the Hall response in synthetic flux lattices

Abstract

Quantum simulators are attracting great interest because they promise insight into the behavior of quantum many-body systems that are prohibitive for classical simulations. The generic output of quantum simulators are snapshots, obtained by means of projective measurements. A central goal of theoretical efforts must be to predict the exact same quantities that can be measured in experiments. Here, we report on the snapshot based calculation of particle currents in quantum lattice models with a conserved number of particles. It is shown how the full probability distribution of locally resolved particle currents can be obtained from suitable snapshot data. Moreover, we investigate the Hall response of interacting bosonic flux ladders, exploiting snapshots drawn from matrix-product states. Flux ladders are minimal lattice models, which enable microscopic studies of the Hall response in correlated quantum phases and they are successfully realized in current quantum-gas experiments. Using a specific pattern of unitary two-site transformations, it is shown that the Hall polarization and the Hall voltage can be faithfully computed from the snapshots obtained in experimentally feasible quench and finite-bias simulations.

11 pages, 6 figures

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