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The work of T.C. and J.Z. was realized within the QuantERA grant QTFLAG, financed by National Science Centre (Poland) via grant 2017/25/Z/ST2/03029. S.H. acknowledges support by STFC Consolidated Grant ST/T000813/1. L.T. acknowledges support from the Ramon y Cajal programme RYC-2016-20594, the 'Plan Nacional Generacion de Conocimiento' PGC2018-095862-B-C22 and the State Agency for Research of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the 'Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu 2020-2023' award to the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (CEX2019-000918-M). This project was supported by the European Union Regional Development Fund within the ERDF Operational Programme of Catalunya, Spain (project QUASICAT/QuantumCat, ref. 001-P-001644. E.Z. acknowledges the support of the Israel Science Foundation (grant no. 523/20). ICFO group acknowledges support from ERC AdG NOQIA, State Research Agency AEI ('Severo Ochoa' Center of Excellence CEX2019-000910-S) Plan National FIDEUA PID2019-106901GB-I00 project funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, FPI, QUANTERA MAQS PCI2019-111828-2 project funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, Proyectos de I+D+I 'Retos Colaboracion' RTC2019-007196-7 project funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, Fundacio Privada Cellex, Fundacio MirPuig, Generalitat de Catalunya (AGAUR grant no. 2017 SGR 1341, CERCA programme, QuantumCAT U16-011424, co-funded by ERDF Operational Programme of Catalonia 2014-2020), EU Horizon 2020 FET-OPEN OPTOLogic (Grant No 899794), and the National Science Centre, Poland (symfonia grant no. 2016/20/W/ST4/00314), Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant STREDCH No 101029393, 'La Caixa' Junior Leaders fellowships (ID100010434), and EU Horizon 2020 under Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 847648 (LCF/BQ/PI19/11690013, LCF/BQ/PI20/11760031, LCF/BQ/PR20/11770012)).

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Cold atoms meet lattice gauge theory

Publicated to:Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical And Engineering Sciences. 380 (2216): 20210064- - 2022-02-07 380(2216), DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2021.0064

Authors: Aidelsburger, Monika; Barbiero, Luca; Bermudez, Alejandro; Chanda, Titas; Dauphin, Alexandre; Gonzalez-Cuadra, Daniel; Grzybowski, Przemyslaw R; Hands, Simon; Jendrzejewski, Fred; Junemann, Johannes; Juzeliunas, Gediminas; Kasper, Valentin; Piga, Angelo; Ran, Shi-Ju; Rizzi, Matteo; Sierra, German; Tagliacozzo, Luca; Tirrito, Emanuele; Zache, Torsten, V; Zakrzewski, Jakub; Zohar, Erez; Lewenstein, Maciej

Affiliations

Abdus Salam Int Ctr Theoret Phys ICTP, Str Costiera 11, I-34151 Trieste, Italy - Author
Adam Mickiewicz Univ, Fac Phys, Inst Spintron & Quantum Informat, Poznan, Poland - Author
Austrian Acad Sci, Inst Quantum Opt & Quantum Informat, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria - Author
Barcelona Inst Sci & Technol, ICFO Inst Ciencies Foton, Barcelona 08860, Spain - Author
Capital Normal Univ, Dept Phys, Beijing 100048, Peoples R China - Author
Forschungszentrum Julich, Peter Grunberg Inst PGI 8, Inst Quantum Control, D-52425 Julich, Germany - Author
Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Racah Inst Phys, IL-91904 Jerusalem, Israel - Author
Heidelberg Univ, Kirchhoff Inst Phys, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany - Author
ICREA, Passeig Lluis Co 23, Barcelona 08010, Spain - Author
Int Sch Adv Studies SISSA, I-34136 Trieste, Italy - Author
Jagiellonian Univ Krakow, Inst Theoret Phys, PL-30348 Krakow, Poland - Author
Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Phys, D-55128 Mainz, Germany - Author
Ludwig Maximilians Univ Munchen, Fak Phys, D-80799 Munich, Germany - Author
Munich Ctr Quantum Sci & Technol MCQST, D-80799 Munich, Germany - Author
Politecn Torino, DISAT, Inst Condensed Matter Phys & Complex Syst, I-10129 Turin, Italy - Author
Swansea Univ, Fac Sci & Engn, Dept Phys, Swansea SA2 8PP, W Glam, Wales - Author
Univ Autonoma Madrid, UAM, Inst Fis Teor, CSIC, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Barcelona, Dept Fis Quant & Astrofis, Barcelona 08028, Catalonia, Spain - Author
Univ Barcelona, Inst Ciencies Cosmos ICCUB, Barcelona 08028, Catalonia, Spain - Author
Univ Cologne, Inst Theoret Phys, D-50937 Cologne, Germany - Author
Univ Complutense, Dept Fis Teor, Madrid 28040, Spain - Author
Univ Innsbruck, Ctr Quantum Phys, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria - Author
Univ Liverpool, Dept Math Sci, Liverpool L69 3BX, Merseyside, England - Author
Univ Rovira & Virgili, Dept Chem Engn, Tarragona 43007, Catalonia, Spain - Author
Vilnius Univ, Inst Theoret Phys & Astron, LT-10257 Vilnius, Lithuania - Author
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Abstract

The central idea of this review k to consider quantum field theory models relevant for particle physics and replace the fermionic matter in these models by a bosonic one. This is mostly motivated by the fact that bosons are more 'accessible' and easier to manipulate for experimentalists, but this 'substitution' also leads to new physics and novel phenomena. It allows us to gain new information about among other things confinement and the dynamics of the deconfinement transition. We will thus consider bosons in dynamical lattices corresponding to the bosonic Schwinger or Z(2) Bose-Hubbard models. Another central idea of this review concerns atomic simulators of paradigmatic models of particle physics theory such as the ereuti-Hubbard ladder, or Cross-Nevey-Wilson and Wilson-Hubbard models. This article k not a general review of the rapidly growing field-it reviews activities related to quantum simulations for lattice field theories performed by the Quantum Optics Theory group at ICFO and their collaborators from 19 institutions all over the world. Finally, we will briefly describe our efforts to design experimentally friendly simulators of these and other models relevant for particle physics.This article is part of the theme issue 'Quantum technologies in particle physics'.

Keywords

Chiral-symmetryDynamicsInvarianceLattice gauge theoryModelOrderPhaseQuantum simulationQuantum simulationsRealizationSolitonsSymmetry-breakingUltracold quantum matter

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical And Engineering Sciences due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2022, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Engineering (Miscellaneous).

This publication has been distinguished as a “Highly Cited Paper” by the agencies WoS (ESI, Clarivate) and ESI (Clarivate), meaning that it ranks within the top 1% of the most cited articles in its thematic field during the year of its publication. In terms of the observed impact of the contribution, this work is considered one of the most influential worldwide, as it is recognized as highly cited. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

And this is evidenced by the extremely high normalized impacts through some of the main indicators of this type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of calculation, already indicate that they are well above the average in different agencies:

  • Normalization of citations relative to the expected citation rate (ESI) by the Clarivate agency: 9.22 (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)
  • Weighted Average of Normalized Impact by the Scopus agency: 11.02 (source consulted: FECYT Feb 2024)
  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 50.69 (source consulted: Dimensions Jun 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-06-13, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 108
  • Scopus: 119
  • Europe PMC: 5
  • OpenCitations: 95

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-06-13:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 53.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 53 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 5.6.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 13 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Austria; China; Germany; Israel; Italy; Lithuania; Poland; United Kingdom.