Trapped-ion quantum simulation of tunable-range Heisenberg chains

EPJ Quantum Technology - Tập 1 - Trang 1-20 - 2014
Tobias Graß1, Maciej Lewenstein1,2
1ICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Castelldefels, Spain
2ICREA-Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain

Tóm tắt

Quantum-optical techniques allow for generating controllable spin-spin interactions between ions, making trapped ions an ideal quantum simulator of Heisenberg chains. A single parameter, the detuning of the Raman coupling, allows to switch between ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic chains, and to modify the range of the interactions. On the antiferromagnetic side, the system can be tuned from an extreme long-range limit, in which any pair of ions interacts with almost equal strength, to interactions with a decay. By exact diagonalization, we study how a system of up to 20 ions behaves upon tuning the interactions. We find that it undergoes a transition from a dimerized state with extremely short-ranged correlations towards a state with quasi long-range order, that is, algebraically decaying correlations. The dynamical evolution of the system after a local quench is shown to strongly vary in the two regimes: While in the dimerized limit, the excitation remains localized for long times, propagating spinons characterize the dynamics of the quasi-long-range ordered system. Taking a look onto the ferromagnetic side of the system, we demonstrate the feasibility of witnessing non-locality of quantum correlations by measuring two-particle correlators.

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