Quantum simulation of the wavefunction to probe frustrated Heisenberg spin systems

By Xiao-song Ma, B. Dakić, W. Naylor, Anton Zeilinger, Philip Walther. 2010

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Quantum simulations, where one quantum system is used to emulate another, are starting to become experimentally feasible. Here, four-photon states are used to simulate spin tetramers, which are important in the description of certain solid-state systems. Emerging frustration within the tetramer is observed, as well as evolution of the ground state from a localized to a resonating-valence-bond state.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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Observation of eight-photon entanglement (2011, background): “It can serve as a moderately sized quantum simulation testbed for studying interesting phenomena in solid-state physic”
Photonic quantum simulators (2012, background): “Armed with four photons, Ma et al.(20) have simulated frustrated valence-bond states by achieving quantum control over four particles.”
Quantum Simulation (2013, methodology): “…trapped ions (Bermudez et al., 2011; Ivanov and Schmidt-Kaler, 2011; Kim et al., 2010; Porras and Cirac, 2006b), NMR (Peng et al., 2009), photons (Ma et al., 2011) and atoms in optical lattices (see (Lewenstein et al., 2007) and references therein, (Becker et al., 2010; Liu et al., 2010; Struck…”
Low-Disorder Microwave Cavity Lattices for Quantum Simulation with Photons (2012, methodology): “Notable experiments include: a linear optics setup that has been used to help calculate the properties of a hydrogen molecule with up to 20 digits of precision [63] and an experiment in which a two photon entangled pair was use to simulate frustrated valence-bond states by simulating the ground-stat”