Photon-assisted-tunneling toolbox for quantum simulations in ion traps

We describe a versatile toolbox for the quantum simulation of many-body lattice models, capable of exploring the combined effects of background Abelian and non-Abelian gauge fields, bond and site disorder and strong on-site interactions. We show how to control the quantum dynamics of particles trapp...

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Autores: Bermúdez Carballo, Alejandro, Schaetz, Tobias, Porras Torres, Diego
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/42799
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42799
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:53
Quantized hall conductance
Optical lattices
Phase-transition
Magnetic-fields
Ultracold atoms
Localization
Electrons
States
Superfluid
Insulator
Física (Física)
22 Física
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Sumario:We describe a versatile toolbox for the quantum simulation of many-body lattice models, capable of exploring the combined effects of background Abelian and non-Abelian gauge fields, bond and site disorder and strong on-site interactions. We show how to control the quantum dynamics of particles trapped in lattice potentials by the photon-assisted tunneling induced by periodic drivings. This scheme is general enough to be applied to either bosons or fermions with the additional advantage of being non-perturbative. It finds an ideal application in microfabricated ion trap arrays, where the quantized vibrational modes of the ions can be described by a quantum lattice model. We present a detailed theoretical proposal for a quantum simulator in that experimental setup, and show that it is possible to explore phases of matter that range from the fractional quantum Hall effect, to exotic strongly correlated glasses or flux-lattice models decorated with arbitrary patterns of localized defects.