A Rydberg quantum simulator

Nature Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 382-388

  Weimer, Hendrik ^a   Müller, Markus ^b   Lesanovsky, Igor ^b,c   Zoller, Peter ^b   Büchler, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOM LASERS; ATOMIC BEAMS; LATTICE THEORY; OPTICAL LATTICES; OPTICAL PUMPING; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM OPTICS; RYDBERG STATES; SIMULATORS;

BASIC BUILDING BLOCK; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; LATTICE GAUGE THEORY; PARTICLE RESERVOIRS; QUANTUM SIMULATORS; SHORT RANGE INTERACTIONS; SYSTEM EVOLUTION; UNIVERSAL QUANTUM SIMULATOR;

HAMILTONIANS;

EID: 77952009159     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1614     Document Type: Article

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