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arxiv: 2509.01637 · v2 · submitted 2025-09-01 · 🪐 quant-ph · cond-mat.quant-gas· cond-mat.str-el

Phase-Sensitive Measurements on a Fermi-Hubbard Quantum Processor

Alberto R. Cavallar , Luis Escalera-Moreno , Titus Franz , Timon Hilker , J. Ignacio Cirac , Philipp M. Preiss , Benjamin F. Schiffer This is my paper

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keywords Fermi-Hubbard modelLoschmidt echoquantum simulationfermionic atomsoptical latticespectral propertiesimaginary time evolutionquantum quench
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Hardware-efficient protocol measures complex Loschmidt echoes to reveal spectral properties of the Fermi-Hubbard model.

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The paper develops a hardware-efficient way to measure complex Loschmidt echoes on a fermionic quantum processor implementing the Fermi-Hubbard model. It combines global quench dynamics with short imaginary time evolution realized through tailored pulse sequences from plaquette product states. This works for both half-filling and doped cases. The approach yields these echoes efficiently for large systems across a wide spectral range. Such measurements would enable access to spectral functions like the local density of states and open paths to finite-temperature studies in existing simulators.

Core claim

Numerical results show that complex Loschmidt echoes can be efficiently obtained for large many-body states over a broad spectral range using the proposed protocol. This allows one to measure spectral properties of the Fermi-Hubbard model, such as the local density of states.

What carries the argument

Architecture-tailored pulse sequences that realize short imaginary-time evolution starting from a product state of plaquettes, combined with global quench dynamics.

If this is right

  • Complex Loschmidt echoes become accessible for large many-body fermionic states.
  • Local density of states can be measured for the Fermi-Hubbard model at half-filling and finite doping.
  • The protocol supports investigation of finite-temperature properties in fermionic quantum simulators.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • This could connect to other quantum simulation platforms by adapting the pulse sequences for different architectures.
  • Extending the method might allow probing out-of-equilibrium dynamics in doped Hubbard systems.
  • Validation on small systems could guide improvements for larger-scale implementations.

Load-bearing premise

The architecture-tailored pulse sequences accurately realize the short imaginary-time evolution without introducing uncontrolled errors that invalidate the extracted complex Loschmidt echoes.

What would settle it

Running the protocol on a small system where exact Loschmidt echoes are known from classical computation and observing large discrepancies would falsify the accuracy claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2509.01637 by Alberto R. Cavallar, Benjamin F. Schiffer, J. Ignacio Cirac, Luis Escalera-Moreno, Philipp M. Preiss, Timon Hilker, Titus Franz.

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Figure 3. Figure 3: (b). There are four main contributions with an overlap squared of around 8%, which partially overlap in the figure, corresponding to all possible combinations of N´eel states on both plaquettes. The next contributions with around 2% population each correspond to one of sixteen combinations of a N´eel state on one plaquette and a striped (e.g., [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: FIG. 7. Shot noise analysis of the broadened local density of states (LDOS) for a [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_7.png] view at source ↗
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Fermionic quantum processors are a promising platform for quantum simulation of correlated fermionic matter. In this work, we study a hardware-efficient protocol for measuring complex expectation values of the time-evolution operator, commonly referred to as Loschmidt echoes, with fermions in an optical superlattice. We analyze the algorithm for the Fermi-Hubbard model at half-filling as well as at finite doping. The method relies on global quench dynamics and short imaginary time evolution, the latter being realized by architecture-tailored pulse sequences starting from a product state of plaquettes. Our numerical results show that complex Loschmidt echoes can be efficiently obtained for large many-body states over a broad spectral range. This allows one to measure spectral properties of the Fermi-Hubbard model, such as the local density of states, and paves the way for the study of finite-temperature properties in current fermionic quantum simulators.

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Summary. The manuscript presents a hardware-efficient protocol for measuring complex Loschmidt echoes in the Fermi-Hubbard model on a fermionic quantum processor realized in an optical superlattice. The approach combines global quench dynamics with short imaginary-time evolution, the latter implemented via architecture-tailored pulse sequences that begin from a product state of plaquettes. Numerical simulations are reported to demonstrate that complex Loschmidt echoes can be obtained efficiently for large many-body states over a broad spectral range, enabling extraction of spectral properties such as the local density of states and opening routes to finite-temperature studies.

Significance. If the protocol holds, the work would be significant for advancing phase-sensitive measurements in current fermionic quantum simulators, where accessing complex time-evolution operators has been challenging. The numerical demonstration of efficiency on large systems is a clear strength that supports potential scalability. Credit is due for the architecture-specific tailoring of the pulse sequences and the focus on practical implementation in existing hardware.

major comments (2)
  1. [Method description (pulse sequences)] The central claim depends on the accuracy of the architecture-tailored pulse sequences in realizing the required short imaginary-time evolution e^{-τH} starting from plaquette product states. No explicit fidelity benchmarks, error analysis, or comparison to the ideal propagator are provided for the interacting Fermi-Hubbard Hamiltonian at half-filling or finite doping, leaving open the possibility of uncontrolled Trotter-like or lattice-specific errors that would directly affect the extracted complex echoes.
  2. [Numerical results] Numerical results section: efficiency is asserted across a broad spectral range for large many-body states, yet the manuscript provides no quantitative error bars, explicit system sizes, or direct comparisons to exact diagonalization benchmarks. This makes it impossible to verify whether post-hoc parameter choices influence the central claim that complex Loschmidt echoes can be reliably obtained.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Clarify in the abstract and introduction the precise range of interaction strengths U/t and doping levels for which the numerical demonstrations were performed.
  2. [Throughout] Ensure consistent notation for the imaginary-time parameter τ and the Loschmidt echo definition across equations and figures.

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We thank the referee for their careful reading of our manuscript and for providing constructive feedback. We address each of the major comments below and have made revisions to incorporate additional details as suggested.

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  1. Referee: The central claim depends on the accuracy of the architecture-tailored pulse sequences in realizing the required short imaginary-time evolution e^{-τH} starting from plaquette product states. No explicit fidelity benchmarks, error analysis, or comparison to the ideal propagator are provided for the interacting Fermi-Hubbard Hamiltonian at half-filling or finite doping, leaving open the possibility of uncontrolled Trotter-like or lattice-specific errors that would directly affect the extracted complex echoes.

    Authors: We appreciate the referee's concern regarding the validation of the pulse sequences. The sequences are specifically designed for the optical superlattice architecture to implement the short imaginary-time evolution starting from plaquette product states. To address this, we have added explicit fidelity benchmarks and error analysis in the revised manuscript for the Fermi-Hubbard model at half-filling and finite doping. These benchmarks compare the realized evolution to the ideal propagator and demonstrate that errors are controlled for the short evolution times used, supporting the accuracy of the complex Loschmidt echoes. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Numerical results section: efficiency is asserted across a broad spectral range for large many-body states, yet the manuscript provides no quantitative error bars, explicit system sizes, or direct comparisons to exact diagonalization benchmarks. This makes it impossible to verify whether post-hoc parameter choices influence the central claim that complex Loschmidt echoes can be reliably obtained.

    Authors: We thank the referee for this comment on the numerical results. Our simulations demonstrate the efficiency of the protocol for large many-body states across a broad spectral range. In response, we have revised the numerical results section to include quantitative error bars, explicit system sizes, and comparisons to exact diagonalization for small systems that benchmark the method. The parameter choices are determined by the requirements of the hardware-efficient protocol and are not post-hoc, as explained in the methods section. These revisions allow for better verification of the central claims. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper describes a hardware-efficient protocol relying on global quench dynamics combined with short imaginary-time evolution implemented via architecture-tailored pulse sequences starting from plaquette product states. Numerical results are presented to show that complex Loschmidt echoes can be obtained efficiently over a broad spectral range for the Fermi-Hubbard model, enabling extraction of quantities such as the local density of states. No equation or step reduces by construction to a parameter fitted from the target data itself, nor does any central claim rest on a self-citation chain that is unverified or equivalent to the input. The protocol is framed as a direct measurement method whose validity is assessed through independent numerical simulation rather than tautological re-derivation of the same observables.

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Abstract-only review; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are stated. The protocol implicitly assumes that the Fermi-Hubbard Hamiltonian can be realized with sufficient fidelity in the optical superlattice and that short imaginary-time evolution can be approximated by the described pulses.

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  • domain assumption The optical superlattice can be tuned to realize the Fermi-Hubbard model at half-filling and finite doping with controllable parameters.
    Stated as the target system in the abstract.
  • domain assumption Short imaginary-time evolution can be implemented via architecture-tailored pulse sequences starting from plaquette product states.
    Central to the measurement protocol described in the abstract.

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