{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["645(8080)"],"submitter":["Evered SJ"],"funding":["Wellcome Trust"],"pubmed_abstract":["Quantum simulations of many-body systems are among the most promising applications of quantum computers<sup>1</sup>. In particular, models based on strongly correlated fermions are central to our understanding of quantum chemistry and materials problems<sup>2</sup>, and can lead to exotic, topological phases of matter<sup>3,4</sup>. However, owing to the non-local nature of fermions, such models are challenging to simulate with qubit devices<sup>5</sup>. Here we realize a digital quantum simulation architecture for two-dimensional fermionic systems based on reconfigurable atom arrays<sup>6</sup>. We utilize a fermion-to-qubit mapping based on Kitaev's model on a honeycomb lattice<sup>3</sup>, in which fermionic statistics are encoded using long-range entangled states<sup>7</sup>. We prepar"],"journal":["Nature"],"pagination":["341-347"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12422979"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Probing the Kitaev honeycomb model on a neutral-atom quantum computer."],"pmcid":["PMC12422979"],"pubmed_authors":["Bluvstein D","Xu M","Maskara N","Campo J","Sachdev S","Li SH","Cain M","Evered SJ","Yelin SF","Ebadi S","Geim AA","Lukin MD","Manovitz T","Kalinowski M","Greiner M","Vuletic V","Zhou H","Ostermann S"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Probing the Kitaev honeycomb model on a neutral-atom quantum computer.","description":"Quantum simulations of many-body systems are among the most promising applications of quantum computers<sup>1</sup>. In particular, models based on strongly correlated fermions are central to our understanding of quantum chemistry and materials problems<sup>2</sup>, and can lead to exotic, topological phases of matter<sup>3,4</sup>. However, owing to the non-local nature of fermions, such models are challenging to simulate with qubit devices<sup>5</sup>. Here we realize a digital quantum simulation architecture for two-dimensional fermionic systems based on reconfigurable atom arrays<sup>6</sup>. We utilize a fermion-to-qubit mapping based on Kitaev's model on a honeycomb lattice<sup>3</sup>, in which fermionic statistics are encoded using long-range entangled states<sup>7</sup>. We prepar","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Sep","modification":"2026-06-03T07:44:30.883Z","creation":"2026-04-26T03:09:49.515Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC12422979","cross_references":{"pubmed":["40931156"],"doi":["10.1038/s41586-025-09475-0"]}}