Quantum simulation of a lattice schwinger model in a chain of trapped ions

Physical Review X

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Hauke, P ^a   Marcos, D ^a   Dalmonte, M ^a,b   Zoller, P ^a,b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXACT DIAGONALIZATION; LATTICE GAUGE THEORY; MANY-BODY PROBLEMS; MICROSCOPIC MODELING; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; QUANTUM SIMULATIONS; TIME-DEPENDENT PROPERTIES;

CHAINS; GAGES; IONS; LATTICE THEORY; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; TRAPPED IONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84893661768     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.3.041018     Document Type: Article

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