Quantum simulation of antiferromagnetic spin chains in an optical lattice

Nature

Volumn 472, Issue 7343, 2011, Pages 307-312

  Simon, Jonathan ^a   Bakr, Waseem S ^a   Ma, Ruichao ^a   Tai, M Eric ^a   Preiss, Philipp M ^a   Greiner, Markus ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RUBIDIUM;

LATTICE DYNAMICS; MAGNETIC FIELD; OPTICAL METHOD; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SIMULATION;

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC SPIN CHAIN; ARTICLE; ATOM; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; IMAGING; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SIMULATION; SUPERCONDUCTOR;

EID: 79955477568     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09994     Document Type: Article

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