News

• [Dec. 2025] In collaboration with Google, we observe superfluidity induced by disorder in a system that shows no superfluidity without it. This required new readout and control techniques in superconducting qubits, including control of a third level beyond the qubit levels.
• [Dec. 2025] In a new work with ion trappers at Duke and Cornell, we introduce a way to combine digital and analog quantum simulation in trapped-ion simulators, enabling the observation of almost strong zero modes in the cluster-Ising model.
• [2025] The QuantERA project DigiAnaQsim, coordinated by our group, has been funded.
• [Feb. 2025] Our preprint with Nir Navon’s lab extracts the range of validity of Fermi’s golden rule, showing that the drive-system coupling needs to be surprisingly small.
• [Feb. 2025] Combining digital circuits with analog time evolution, we observe thermal phases and transport in the 2D XY model on Google’s 69-qubit processor, published in Nature.
• [Jan. 2025] Our observation of a finite-energy phase transition in 1D, with Or Katz and Chris Monroe at Duke, appeared in Nature Physics, covered by New Scientist and phys.org.
• [Nov. 2024] In our preprint on fermion-qubit fault tolerance, we show how to encode fermionic logical operators into fermionic atoms and how to apply fault-tolerant logical gates.