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Gauging Quantum States: From Global to Local Symmetries in Many-Body Systems

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: Gauge fields, which appear in the standard model of physics, underpin a variety of fields, including condensed-matter physics. An alternative technique for studying gauge theories using a lattice with quantum degrees of freedom at its vertices is presented.

Source: Physical Review X

DOI: 10.1103/physrevx.5.011024

Authors: Jutho Haegeman, Karel Van Acoleyen, Norbert Schuch, J. Ignacio Cirac, Frank Verstraete

Institutions: Ghent University, RWTH Aachen University, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, University of Vienna

Language: English

Topic: Quantum many-body systems

Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $4,200

Funders: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Austrian Science Fund, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, University of California Berkeley