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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 25: Quantum Information: Quantum Computation II
Q 25.8: Talk
Tuesday, March 24, 2015, 16:15–16:30, C/HSO
Experimental simulation of gauge field theories with trapped ions — •Esteban Martinez1, Daniel Nigg1, Marcello Dalmonte2, Enrique Rico Ortega2, Thomas Monz1, Peter Zoller1,2, and Rainer Blatt1,2 — 1Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria — 2Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Technikerstraße 21a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Gauge field theories are at the heart of many fundamental phenomena in particle physics and condensed matter. However, they have proven to be very difficult to study either analytically or by numerical simulations on classical computers, and are thus excellent candidates for quantum simulation. In this work we present some proof-of-principle experiments on simulating high-energy physics using a trapped-ion quantum processor. We will cover some recent experimental results and give an outlook of future experiments.