Two-Dimensional Ion Crystal

Tunable Quantum Simulation

Enables tunable quantum simulation of two-dimensional Ising models for strongly correlated systems and combinatorial optimization.

Qiao, Mu · Zhengyang, Cai · Wang, Ye · Du, Botao · Jin, Naijun · Chen, Wentao · Wang, Pengfei · Luan, Chunyang · Erfu, Gao · Ximo, Sun · Haonan, Tian · Zhang, Jingning · Kim, Kihwan

Nature Physics 2024

Advantages

Implemented various spin models and adiabatically prepared their ground states

Generated spin-spin interactions with tunable signs and strengths by driving different vibrational modes

Probed quantum coherence via reversal of transverse field ramp and quantified return probability