Hybrid quantum systems with trapped charged particles

Physics with Trapped Charged Particles

Effective quantum spin systems with trapped ions.

We show that the physical system consisting of trapped ions interacting with lasers may undergo a rich variety of quantum phase transitions. By changing the laser intensities and polarizations the dynamics of the internal states of the ions can be controlled, in such a way that an Ising or Heisenberg-like interaction is induced between effective spins. Our scheme allows us to build an analogue ...

Designing a hybrid quantum controller for strongly eigenstate controllable systems

 In this paper, a new quantum hybrid controller for controlling the strongly eigenstate controllable systems, is designed. For this purpose, a Lyapunov control law is implemented when the target state is in reachable set of the initial state. On the other hand, if the target state is not in the reachable set of the given initial state, based on Grover algorithm, a new interface state that the t...

Quantum technologies with hybrid systems.

An extensively pursued current direction of research in physics aims at the development of practical technologies that exploit the effects of quantum mechanics. As part of this ongoing effort, devices for quantum information processing, secure communication, and high-precision sensing are being implemented with diverse systems, ranging from photons, atoms, and spins to mesoscopic superconductin...

A computational introduction to quantum statistics using harmonically trapped particles

Abstract In a 1997 paper Moore and Schroeder argued that the development of student understanding of thermal physics could be enhanced by computational exercises that highlight the link between the statistical definition of entropy and the second law of thermodynamics [Am. J. Phys. 65, 26 (1997)]. I introduce examples of similar computational exercises for systems in which the quantum statistic...