2012/05/08 by Hoi-Kwan Lau, Daniel F. V. James
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.85.062329
arxiv created 2012/05/08 · arxiv updated 2012/06/29
We describe a possible architecture to implement a universal bosonic simulator (UBS) using trapped ions. Single ions are confined in individual traps, and their motional states represent the bosonic modes. Single-mode linear operators, nonlinear phase-shifts, and linear beam splitters can be realized by precisely controlling the trapping potentials. All the processes in a bosonic simulation, except the initialization and the readout, can be conducted beyond the Lamb-Dicke regime. Aspects of our proposal can also be applied to split adiabatically a pair of ions in a single trap.