Towards analog quantum simulations of lattice gauge theories with trapped ions

2019/08/08 by Zohreh Davoudi, Mohammad Hafezi, Christopher Monroe +4 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Gauge theory #Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory #Introduction to gauge theory #Lattice gauge theory #Physics #Quantum #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum computer #Quantum many-body systems #Quantum mechanics #Quantum simulator #Statistical physics #Theoretical physics #hep-lat #hep-ph #nucl-th #physics.atom-ph #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevresearch.2.023015

published as Phys. Rev. Research 2, 023015 (2020) · 27 pages, 15 figures. 1 Mathematica Notebook as ancillary file

arxiv created 2019/08/08 · openalex publication_date 2020/04/08 · arxiv updated 2020/04/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Abstract

This work provides proposals for the first fully-analog quantum simulation of select gauge theories using a carefully engineered effective spin-spin Hamiltonian in trapped-ion quantum simulators, with applications beyond gauge theories.

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