13–16 Jul 2026
Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Campus
Europe/London timezone

Preparation and detection of quasiparticles for quantum simulations of scattering

14 Jul 2026, 18:00
1h 30m
Room MB-B11 (Mathematical Sciences Social Hub)

Room MB-B11

Mathematical Sciences Social Hub

Speaker

Mattia Morgavi (Università degli Studi di Padova)

Description

We introduce a method for the selective preparation and detection of quasiparticle wave packets, based on creation operators that generate dressed, localized excitations on top of interacting vacua of (quasi-)one-dimensional quantum lattice theories. This method exploits maximally localized Wannier functions (MLWFs) constructed from quasiparticle bands at intermediate system sizes, enabling the construction of unitary local dressed creation operators. The algorithm allows for species-resolved wave-packet preparation and detection, enabling the separation of known quasiparticle contributions from unknown resonances. We test this approach with matrix product states (MPS) on pure hardcore Hamiltonian QCD on a ladder lattice, detecting scattering outputs and mass resonances.

Author

Mattia Morgavi (Università degli Studi di Padova)

Co-authors

Dr Marco Rigobello (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik) Dr Peter Majcen (Universität Karlsruhe) Dr Pietro Silvi (Università degli Studi di Padova) Simone Montangero (Padova University)

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