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Symmetry matters

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Quantum simulators can provide new insights into the complicated dynamics of quantum many-body systems far from equilibrium. A recent experiment reveals that underlying symmetries dictate the nature of universal scaling dynamics.

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Fig. 1: Universal dynamics for different ground-state symmetries.

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