Onset of a quantum phase transition with a trapped ion quantum simulator

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Islam, R ^a   Edwards, E E ^a   Kim, K ^a   Korenblit, S ^a   Noh, C ^b   Carmichael, H ^b   Lin, G D ^c   Duan, L M ^c   Joseph Wang, C C ^d   Freericks, J K ^d   Monroe, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; ION; QUANTUM DOT; ISOTOPE; YTTERBIUM;

ARTICLE; MAGNETISM; PHASE TRANSITION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SIMULATION; SIMULATOR; STRENGTH; THERMODYNAMICS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; QUANTUM THEORY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE; ISOTOPES; MAGNETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHASE TRANSITION; QUANTUM THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS; YTTERBIUM;

EID: 79960096432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1374     Document Type: Article

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