Observation of glueball excitations and string breaking in a $2+1$D ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$ lattice gauge theory on a trapped-ion quantum computer

Kaidi Xu, Umberto Borla, Kevin Hemery +4

A major goal of the quantum simulation of high-energy physics (HEP) is to probe real-time nonperturbative far-from-equilibrium quantum processes underlying phenomena such as hadron…