3D Ising criticality with Platonic lattice superconducting qubits

Authors:Liyang Sui, Hong-Hao Song, Sainan Huai, Yufan Li, Zhiwen Zong, Kunliang Bu, Xiaopei Yang, Xingrui Liu, Wenyan Jin, Bowen Chen, Xutao Zhang, Jianlan Wu, Yicong Zheng, Shengyu Zhang, Gang v. Chen, Yi Yin

Abstract:The three-dimensional (3D) Ising model is a foundational model in statistical physics and critical phenomena, yet its analytical intractability has long impeded the precise determination of universal critical exponents. While high-precision estimates have been obtained through classical numerical methods and conformal bootstrap techniques, a direct quantum simulation of the 3D Ising criticality remains challenging, requiring nontrivial connectivity, sufficient system size, and high spectral resolution. In this work, assisted by the state-operator correspondence of conformal field theory, we perform a digital quantum simulation of the 3D Ising critical exponents using a multiply-connected 9-qubit superconducting quantum processor with a Platonic lattice geometry. Employing an extended variational quantum eigensolver equipped with a phase-based loss function, we variationally prepare the low-energy eigenstates of the transverse-field Ising model on a cubic Platonic lattice encoded in an 8-qubit register. The four lowest eigenenergies are extracted via Fourier-transform analysis and high-precision numerical fitting, agreeing with the exact diagonalization values up to +/- 0.001. The resulting scaling dimension Delta_epsilon = 1.5850 and critical exponent nu = 0.7067 match well with theory.

Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

arXiv:2606.16854 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2606.16854v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.16854 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)