Theory collaborations

Alongside our experiments we collaborate closely with theory groups on quantum simulation, lattice gauge theories, topological phases and out-of-equilibrium dynamics.

This page collects joint theory works and proposals that are not tied to one specific experimental platform in the lab.

Publications

Quantum simulation of fermionic non-Abelian lattice gauge theories in (2+1)D with built-in gauge protection

Gaia De Paciani, Lukas Homeier, Jad C. Halimeh, Monika Aidelsburger, Fabian Grusdt

Phys. Rev. A 113, 063327 (2026)

DOI arXiv Theory

Controlled pairing symmetries in a Fermi-Hubbard ladder with band flattening

J. P. Mendonça, S. Biswas, M. Dziurawiec, U. Bhattacharya, K. Jachymski, M. Aidelsburger, M. Lewenstein, M. M. Maśka, T. Grass

Phys. Rev. B 113, L241119 (2026)

DOI Theory

Emergent interaction-induced topology in Bose-Hubbard ladders

David Wellnitz, Gustavo A. Domínguez-Castro, Thomas Bilitewski, Monika Aidelsburger, Ana Maria Rey, and Luis Santos

Phys. Rev. Res. 7, L012012 (2025)

DOI Theory

Extracting transport coefficients from local ground-state currents

Felix A. Palm, Alexander Impertro, Monika Aidelsburger, Nathan Goldman

arXiv:2510.19742 (2025)

arXiv Theory

Cold-atom quantum simulators of gauge theories

Jad C Halimeh, Monika Aidelsburger, Fabian Grusdt, Philipp Hauke, Bing Yang

Nature Phys. 21, 25-36 (2025)

DOI Theory

Floquet topological phase transitions induced by uncorrelated or correlated disorder

Jun-Hui Zheng, Arijit Dutta, Monika Aidelsburger, Walter Hofstetter

Phys. Rev. B 109, 184201 (2024)

DOI Theory

The cold-atom elevator: From edge-state injection to the preparation of fractional Chern insulators

Botao Wang, Monika Aidelsburger, Jean Dalibard, André Eckardt, Nathan Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 163402 (2024)

DOI Theory

Superconductivity in a Topological Lattice Model with Strong Repulsion

Rahul Sahay, Stefan Divic, Daniel E. Parker, Tomohiro Soejima, Sajant Anand, Johannes Hauschild, Monika Aidelsburger, Ashvin Vishwanath, Shubhayu Chatterjee, Norman Y. Yao, Michael P. Zaletel

Phys. Rev. B 110, 195126 (2024)

DOI Theory

Floquet Flux Attachment in Cold Atomic Systems

Helia Kamal, Jack Kemp, Yin-Chen He, Yohei Fuji, Monika Aidelsburger, Peter Zoller, Norman Y. Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 163403 (2024)

DOI Theory

The anomalous Floquet Anderson insulator in a continuously driven optical lattice

Arijit Dutta, Efe Sen, Jun-Hui Zheng, Monika Aidelsburger, Walter Hofstetter

Phys. Rev. B 109, L121114 (2024)

DOI Theory

Diagnosing quantum transport from wave function snapshots

Devendra Singh Bhakuni, Roberto Verdel, Cristiano Muzzi, Riccardo Andreoni, Monika Aidelsburger, Marcello Dalmonte

Phys. Rev. B 110, 144204 (2024)

DOI Theory

Frustrated extended Bose-Hubbard model and deconfined quantum critical points with optical lattices at the anti-magic wavelength

Niccolò Baldelli, Cesar R. Cabrera, Sergi Julià-Farré, Monika Aidelsburger, Luca Barbiero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 153401 (2024)

DOI Theory

Preparing and Analyzing Solitons in the sine-Gordon Model with Quantum Gas Microscopes

Elisabeth Wybo, Alvise Bastianello, Monika Aidelsburger, Immanuel Bloch, Michael Knap

PRX Quantum 4, 030308 (2023)

DOI Theory

Ab initio derivation of lattice gauge theory dynamics for cold gases in optical lattices

Federica Maria Surace, Pierre Fromholz, Nelson Darkwah Oppong, Marcello Dalmonte, Monika Aidelsburger

PRX Quantum 4, 020330 (2023)

DOI Theory

Engineering and probing non-Abelian chiral spin liquids using periodically driven ultracold atoms

Bo-Ye Sun, Nathan Goldman, Monika Aidelsburger, Marin Bukov

PRX Quantum 4, 020329 (2023)

DOI Theory

Thouless pumping and topology

Roberta Citro, Monika Aidelsburger

Nature Reviews Physics 5, 87-101 (2023)

DOI Theory

Thouless Pumps and Bulk-Boundary Correspondence in Higher-Order Symmetry-Protected Topological Phases

Julian F. Wienand, Friederike Horn, Monika Aidelsburger, Julian Bibo, Fabian Grusdt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 246602 (2022)

DOI Theory

Stabilizing Lattice Gauge Theories Through Simplified Local Pseudo Generators

Jad C. Halimeh, Lukas Homeier, Christian Schweizer, Monika Aidelsburger, Philipp Hauke, Fabian Grusdt

Phys. Rev. Research 4, 033120 (2022)

DOI Theory

Bosonic Pfaffian State in the Hofstadter-Bose-Hubbard Model

Felix A. Palm, Maximilian Buser, Julian Léonard, Monika Aidelsburger, Ulrich Schollwöck, Fabian Grusdt

Phys. Rev. B 103, 161101 (2021)

DOI Theory

Z2 lattice gauge theories and Kitaev's toric code: A scheme for analog quantum simulation

Lukas Homeier, Christian Schweizer, Monika Aidelsburger, Arkady Fedorov, Fabian Grusdt

Phys. Rev. B 104, 085138 (2021)

DOI Theory

Cold atoms meet lattice gauge theory

Monika Aidelsburger, Luca Barbiero, Alejandro Bermudez, Titas Chanda, Alexandre Dauphin, Daniel González-Cuadra, Przemysław R. Grzybowski, Simon Hands, Fred Jendrzejewski, Johannes Jünemann, Gediminas Juzeliunas, Valentin Kasper, Angelo Piga, Shi-Ju Ran, Matteo Rizzi, Gérman Sierra, Luca Tagliacozzo, Emanuele Tirrito, Torsten V. Zache, Jakub Zakrzewski, Erez Zohar, Maciej Lewenstein

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 380, 20210064 (2021)

DOI Theory

The rotor Jackiw-Rebbi model: a cold-atom approach to chiral symmetry restoration and quark confinement

D. González-Cuadra, A. Dauphin, M. Aidelsburger, M. Lewenstein, A. Bermudez

PRX Quantum 1, 020321 (2020)

DOI Theory

Topological proximity effects in a Haldane-graphene bilayer system

Peng Cheng, Philipp W. Klein, Kirill Plekhanov, Klaus Sengstock, Monika Aidelsburger, Christof Weitenberg, Karyn Le Hur

Phys. Rev. B 100, 081107 (2019)

DOI Theory

Coupling ultracold matter to dynamical gauge fields in optical lattices: From flux-attachment to Z2 lattice gauge theories

L. Barbiero, C. Schweizer, M. Aidelsburger, E. Demler, N. Goldman, F. Grusdt

Science Advances 5, eaav7444 (2019)

DOI Theory

Topological charge pumping in the interacting bosonic Rice-Mele model

A. L. C. Hayward, C. Schweizer, M. Lohse, M. Aidelsburger, F. Heidrich-Meisner

Phys. Rev. B 98, 245148 (2018)

DOI Theory

Methods for detecting charge fractionalization and winding numbers in an interacting fermionic ladder

L. Mazza, M. Aidelsburger, H.-H. Tu, N. Goldman, M. Burrello

New J. Phys. 17, 105001 (2015)

DOI Theory

Periodically-driven quantum matter: the case of resonant modulations

N. Goldman, J. Dalibard, M. Aidelsburger, N. R. Cooper

Phys. Rev. A 91, 033632 (2015)

DOI Theory