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  "abstract": "Quantum simulations are traditionally confined to exploring dynamics starting from unentangled or low-entanglement states due to severe bottlenecks in protocol design, hardware performance, and classical verification. Here, we report the first quantum simulation of non-equilibrium dynamics initiated directly from a many-body critical ground state. Using a fully-connected trapped-ion processor, we prepare the critical ground state of a transverse-field Ising model via a hardware-tailored, logarithmic-depth quantum circuit based on multi-scale entanglement renormalization. Following this initialization, we apply a deep Floquet drive that maintains emergent conformal symmetry, enabling us to benchmark lattice dynamics against analytical results from continuum theory. In the resulting conformal heating phase, we extract a central charge consistent with the Ising universality class ($c=1/2$) from the universal decay of the Loschmidt echo and observe spatial energy localization predicted by field theory. Conversely, the non-heating phase exhibits global finite-time revivals. This work establishes a scalable and versatile framework for exploring critical quantum dynamics.",
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      "name": "Bastien Lapierre"
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      "name": "Qiang Miao"
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.27530",
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  "published": "2026-09-14",
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  "title": "Observing Conformal Floquet Dynamics on a Digital Quantum Processor",
  "title_text": "Observing Conformal Floquet Dynamics on a Digital Quantum Processor",
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