Photon-Assisted-Tunneling Toolbox for Quantum Simulations in Ion Traps
Abstract
We describe a versatile toolbox for the quantum simulation of many-body lattice models, capable of exploring the combined effects of background Abelian and non-Abelian gauge fields, bond and site disorder, and strong on-site interactions. We show how to control the quantum dynamics of particles trapped in lattice potentials by the photon-assisted tunneling induced by periodic drivings. This scheme is general enough to be applied to either bosons or fermions with the additional advantage of being non-perturbative. It finds an ideal application in microfabricated ion trap arrays, where the quantized vibrational modes of the ions can be described by a quantum lattice model. We present a detailed theoretical proposal for a quantum simulator in that experimental setup, and show that it is possible to explore phases of matter that range from the fractional quantum Hall effect, to exotic strongly-correlated glasses, or flux-lattice models decorated with arbitrary patterns of localized defects.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1201.3287,
title = {Photon-Assisted-Tunneling Toolbox for Quantum Simulations in Ion Traps},
author = {Alejandro Bermudez and Tobias Schaetz and Diego Porras},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.3287},
year = {2012}
}