10–12 Jun 2026
Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona
Europe/Madrid timezone

Simulating nuclear physics using gadget Ising hamiltonians

12 Jun 2026, 15:00
30m
Aula Magna (Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona)

Aula Magna

Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona

Carrer Martí i Franquès, 1 08028 - Barcelona, Spain
Invited Talk

Speaker

Emanuele Costa (University of Barcelona)

Description

We present a perturbative gadget construction that maps quasiparticle nuclear shell model (NSM) Hamiltonians onto effective Ising dynamics. Starting from a one-hot encoded quasiparticle basis, we derive an effective low-energy Hamiltonian via Brillouin-Wigner perturbation theory, recovering the target nuclear interactions as emergent couplings of a perturbed Ising model. We discuss how this construction opens a concrete route to simulating nuclear structure Hamiltonians on Rydberg atom platforms and quantum annealers, bridging the gap between many-body nuclear physics and quantum simulators.

Author

Emanuele Costa (University of Barcelona)

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