Discrete time crystals

DV Else, C Monroe, C Nayak… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Experimental advances have allowed for the exploration of nearly isolated quantum many-
body systems whose coupling to an external bath is very weak. A particularly interesting …

Quantum simulation

IM Georgescu, S Ashhab, F Nori - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2014 - APS
Simulating quantum mechanics is known to be a difficult computational problem, especially
when dealing with large systems. However, this difficulty may be overcome by using some …

Perspectives of quantum annealing: Methods and implementations

P Hauke, HG Katzgraber, W Lechner… - Reports on Progress …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum annealing is a computing paradigm that has the ambitious goal of efficiently
solving large-scale combinatorial optimization problems of practical importance. However …

A superconducting quantum simulator based on a photonic-bandgap metamaterial

X Zhang, E Kim, DK Mark, S Choi, O Painter - Science, 2023 - science.org
Synthesizing many-body quantum systems with various ranges of interactions facilitates the
study of quantum chaotic dynamics. Such extended interaction range can be enabled by …

Discrete time crystals: Rigidity, criticality, and realizations

NY Yao, AC Potter, ID Potirniche, A Vishwanath - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
Despite being forbidden in equilibrium, spontaneous breaking of time translation symmetry
can occur in periodically driven, Floquet systems with discrete time-translation symmetry …

Nobel Lecture: Superposition, entanglement, and raising Schrödinger's cat

DJ Wineland - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2013 - APS
Nobel Lecture: Superposition, entanglement, and raising Schrodinger ’s cat* Page 1 Nobel
Lecture: Superposition, entanglement, and raising Schrodinger ’s cat* David J. Wineland …

Universality of phase transition dynamics: Topological defects from symmetry breaking

A Del Campo, WH Zurek - International Journal of Modern Physics …, 2014 - World Scientific
In the course of a nonequilibrium continuous phase transition, the dynamics ceases to be
adiabatic in the vicinity of the critical point as a result of the critical slowing down (the …

Programmable quantum simulations of spin systems with trapped ions

C Monroe, WC Campbell, LM Duan, ZX Gong… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Laser-cooled and trapped atomic ions form an ideal standard for the simulation of interacting
quantum spin models. Effective spins are represented by appropriate internal energy levels …

Towards analog quantum simulations of lattice gauge theories with trapped ions

Z Davoudi, M Hafezi, C Monroe, G Pagano, A Seif… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Gauge field theories play a central role in modern physics and are at the heart of the
Standard Model of elementary particles and interactions. Despite significant progress in …

Co-designing a scalable quantum computer with trapped atomic ions

KR Brown, J Kim, C Monroe - npj Quantum Information, 2016 - nature.com
The first generation of quantum computers are on the horizon, fabricated from quantum
hardware platforms that may soon be able to tackle certain tasks that cannot be performed or …