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Twenty-five years of analogue quantum simulation

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A theoretical proposal published in 1998 spurred research into analogue quantum simulation, a field that has brought different physics subdisciplines, theorists and experimentalists together, creating a new community.

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Fig. 1: The Bose–Hubbard model and analogue quantum simulation.

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