High Energy Physics Seminars

We use tensor network methods to construct an approximate Hamiltonian for the lattice Abelian Higgs model. Using numerical methods, we show that for small systems in 1+1 dimensions, the real-time evolution of a particle-antiparticle initial state has features that can be interpreted as string breaking. We present analog implementations of this evolution using arrays of Rydberg atoms and compare with the target model.

Our long term goal is to integrate the quantum simulation in event generators like Pythia.