Duke team uses trapped-ion quantum simulator to model string breaking and particle formation

Duke Quantum Center researchers led by Christopher Monroe used a trapped-ion quantum computer to observe string-breaking dynamics tied to particle–antiparticle formation, work published in Nature Physics on 23 September. The international collaboration included the University of Maryland, Oxford, Caltech, Cornell and KU Leuven, in one of the earliest demonstrations of this kind and a step toward simulating how matter formed after the Big Bang.