Tunable Confinement-Deconfinement Transition in an Ultracold Atom Quantum Simulator

Yanting Cheng, Shang Liu, Wei Zheng, 4 Pengfei Zhang, and Hui Zhai ∗ Institute of Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China Institute for Quantum Information and Matter and Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China (Dated: April 15, 2022)