Speaker
Judah Unmuth-Yockey
(Syracuse University)
Description
I will discuss our proposal to quantum simulate the Abelian Higgs
model in $1+1$ dimensions. While doing this I will show how the
energy gap associated with the inclusion of a static charge shows
universal finite-size scaling in the discrete lattice model, and the
continuous-time quantum model. This finite-size scaling is identical
in both limits. I will briefly go into progress being made in $2+1$
dimensions on the $U(1)$-gauge model.