*Please note that this talk is VIRTUAL ONLY, however, you are welcome to view the virtual talk in ATL 3100A.*

Analog quantum simulators offer immediately available platforms for simulating challenging problems in both high and low energy physics. However, analog simulators are imperfect and do not implement error correction and consequently it remains unclear under which circumstances their output can be trusted. In my talk, I will show that the structure in the physically relevant models, in particular their geometrical locality, spectral properties as well as the fact that the observables of interest are typically local, can lead to a milder impact of simulator noise when compared to the worst case. I will also show that many of these conclusions continue to hold even when we account for non-trivial problem-to-simulator mappings such as Trotterization, Floque-Magnus expansions and Perturbative expansions, which are required to map challenging many-body models (e.g. Lattice Gauge theories) to available quantum simulators. Finally, I will position these results in the context of quantum advantage for many-body physics and review outstanding theoretical challenges in the field.

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