Local gauge symmetry on optical lattices?

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The versatile technology of cold atoms confined in optical lattices allows the creation of a vast number of lattice geometries and interactions, providing a promising platform for emulating various lattice models.

• This opens the possibility of letting nature take care of sign problems and real time evolution in carefully prepared situations.
• Up to now, experimentalists have succeeded to implement several types of Hubbard models considered by condensed matter theorists.
• In this proceeding, we discuss the possibility of extending this effort to lattice gauge theory.