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arXiv:2411.00765 · Nature Physics

Dynamical simulations of many-body quantum chaos on a quantum computer

Laurin E. Fischer, Matea Leahy, Andrew Eddins, Nathan Keenan, Davide Ferracin, Matteo A. C. Rossi, Young‐Seok Kim, Andre He, Francesca Pietracaprina, Boris Sokolov, Shane Dooley, Zoltán Zimborás, Francesco Tacchino, Sabrina Maniscalco, John Goold, Guillermo García-Pérez, Ivano Tavernelli, Abhinav Kandala, Sergey N. Filippov

Published Jan 20, 2026• 16 citations
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10.1038/s41567-025-03144-9

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