Engineered two-dimensional Ising interactions in a trapped-ion quantum simulator with hundreds of spins

Nature

Volumn 484, Issue 7395, 2012, Pages 489-492

  Britton, Joseph W ^a   Sawyer, Brian C ^a   Keith, Adam C ^b,c   Wang, C C Joseph ^b   Freericks, James K ^b   Uys, Hermann ^d   Biercuk, Michael J ^e   Bollinger, John J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM DOT;

CORRELATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; POWER LAW; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; ION QUANTUM SIMULATOR; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SIMULATOR; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84860250368     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10981     Document Type: Article

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