Quantum spin dynamics and entanglement generation with hundreds of trapped ions

DOI10.1126/SCIENCE.AAD9958zbMATH Open1355.81181arXiv1512.03756OpenAlexW2193360187WikidataQ54158636 ScholiaQ54158636MaRDI QIDQ2961682FDOQ2961682

Joseph W. Britton, Michael L. Wall, John Bollinger, Michael Foss-Feig, Justin G. Bohnet, Ana María Rey, Brian C. Sawyer

Publication date: 15 February 2017

Published in: Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Quantum simulation of spin models can provide insight into complex problems that are difficult or impossible to study with classical computers. Trapped ions are an established platform for quantum simulation, but only systems with fewer than 20 ions have demonstrated quantum correlations. Here we study non-equilibrium, quantum spin dynamics arising from an engineered, homogeneous Ising interaction in a two-dimensional array of ${}^9$Be${}^{+}$ ions in a Penning trap. We verify entanglement in the form of spin-squeezed states for up to 219 ions, directly observing 4.0$pm$0.9 dB of spectroscopic enhancement. We also observe evidence of non-Gaussian, over-squeezed states in the full counting statistics. We find good agreement with ab-initio theory that includes competition between entanglement and decoherence, laying the groundwork for simulations of the transverse-field Ising model with variable-range interactions, for which numerical solutions are, in general, classically intractable.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03756

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Atomic physics (81V45)

Cited In (19)

• Distributing entangled state using quantum repeater protocol: trapped atomic ions in optomechanical cavities
• Preparation of an arbitrary two-qubit quantum gate on two spins with an anisotropic Heisenberg interaction
• Reasonable method to extract Fisher information from experimental data
• Detection of genuine \(N\)-qubit W state, GHZ state and twin-Fock state via quantum Fisher information
• Systematic analysis of crystalline phases in bosonic lattice models with algebraically decaying density-density interactions
• Strong Hilbert space fragmentation via emergent quantum drums in two dimensions
• Continuously varying critical exponents in long-range quantum spin ladders
• Collapse and revival of entanglement between qubits coupled to a spin coherent state
• Open source matrix product states: exact diagonalization and other entanglement-accurate methods revisited in quantum systems
• Entanglement between atomic thermal states and coherent or squeezed photons in a damping cavity
• Dynamical structure factors of dynamical quantum simulators
• Entanglement and quantum state geometry of a spin system with all-range Ising-type interaction
• Preparation of two-qubit entangled states on a spin-1/2 Ising-Heisenberg diamond spin cluster by controlling the measurement
• Lieb–Robinson bounds for open quantum systems with long-ranged interactions
• Bootstrapping the long-range Ising model in three dimensions
• Symmetry‐Protected Quantum Adiabatic Evolution in Spontaneous Symmetry‐Breaking Transitions
• Field theory of many-body Lindbladian dynamics
• Generation and robustness of quantum entanglement in spin graphs
• Critical phenomena and Kibble–Zurek scaling in the long-range quantum Ising chain

This page was built for publication: Quantum spin dynamics and entanglement generation with hundreds of trapped ions

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2961682)