Hall viscosity of the Laughlin state on noisy quantum computers

Abstract:Hall viscosity is a quantized nondissipative stress response of a fractional quantum Hall (FQH) fluid to adiabatic geometric deformations. Despite strong theoretical interest, its experimental observation in the FQH state has remained elusive, making it a demanding target for realization on current IBM quantum hardware. In this letter, we employ a quasi-one-dimensional model of an FQH state coupled to a background metric to probe the geometric response under a metric quench. We design and implement a quantum-circuit protocol that realizes a Hilbert-space-truncated version of the model and extracts the Hall viscosity from the geometric response encoded in the wave-function dynamics on the IBM quantum hardware. While the truncation prevents us from accessing the fully quantized value of Hall viscosity, the hardware data closely track analytical and numerical predictions within this regime.

Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

arXiv:2512.09982 [cond-mat.str-el]

(or arXiv:2512.09982v2 [cond-mat.str-el] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.09982 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite

Phys. Rev. B 114, 185121 (2026)

https://doi.org/10.1103/2g6v-fqbr Focus to learn more DOI(s) linking to related resources

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