Two independent cold-atom experiments have demonstrated the building blocks for the quantum simulation of dynamical gauge fields — an advance that holds promise for our understanding of computationally intractable problems in high-energy physics.
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Chin, C. Engaged in gauge theory. Nat. Phys. 15, 1106–1107 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-019-0664-8
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