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A neutral-atom Hubbard quantum simulator in the cryogenic regime

Muqing Xu, L. Kendrick, Anant Kale, You-Qi Gang, Chunhan Feng, Shiwei Zhang, Aaron W. Young, M. Lebrat et al.

Nature, 2025

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Abstract

Ultracold fermionic atoms in optical lattices offer pristine realizations of Hubbard models1, which are fundamental to modern condensed-matter physics2,3. Despite notable advancements4, 5–6, the accessible temperatures in these optical lattice material analogues are still too high to address many open problems7, 8, 9–10. Here we demonstrate a several-fold reduction in temperature6,11, 12–13, bringing large-scale quantum simulations of the Hubbard model into an entirely new regime. This is accomplished by transforming a low-entropy product state into strongly correlated states of interest via dynamic control of the model parameters14,15, which is extremely challenging to simulate classically10. At half-filling, the long-range antiferromagnetic order is close to saturation, leading to a temperature of T/t=0.05−0.05+0.06\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$T/t=0.0{5}_{-0.05}^{+0.06}$$\end{document} based on comparisons with numerically exact simulations. Doped away from half-filling, it is exceedingly challenging to realize systematically accurate and predictive numerical simulations9. Importantly, we are able to use quantum simulation to identify a new pathway for achieving similarly low temperatures with doping. This is confirmed by comparing short-range spin correlations to…

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