Engineered Open Systems and Quantum Simulations with Atoms and Ions

By Markus P. Müller, S. Diehl, G. Pupillo, Peter Zoller. 2012

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The enormous experimental progress in atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics during the last decades allows us nowadays to isolate single, a few or even many-body ensembles of microscopic particles, and to manipulate their quantum properties at a level of precision, which still seemed unthinkable some years ago. This versatile set of tools has enabled the development of the well-established concept of engineering of many-body Hamiltonians in various physical platforms. These available tools, however, can also be harnessed to extend the scenario of Hamiltonian engineering to a more general Liouvillian setting, which in addition to coherent dynamics also includes controlled dissipation in many-body quantum systems. Here, we review recent theoretical and experimental progress in different directions along these lines, with a particular focus on physical realizations with systems of atoms and ions. This comprises digital quantum simulations in a general open system setting, as well as engineering and understanding new classes of systems far away from thermodynamic equilibrium.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Cluster mean-field approach to the steady-state phase diagram of dissipative spin systems (2016, methodology): “systems of trapped ions [14], exciton-polariton condensates”
Keldysh field theory for driven open quantum systems (2015, background): “[57] Markus Müller, Sebastian Diehl, Guido Pupillo, and Peter Zoller, “Engineered open systems and quantum simulations with atoms and ions,” in Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Vol.”
Signatures of Many-Body Localization in a Controlled Open Quantum System (2016, background): “This is in stark contrast to the strong scattering limit, where a quantum Zeno effect would result in the localization of atoms [36,37,40].”
Topological Phases of Non-Hermitian Systems (2018, background): “Last but not the least, it could be an intriguing theoretical challenge to consider the topological characterization for interacting many-body non-Hermitian systems [97,98], which are expected to be accessible in near-future atomic, molecular, and optical experiments in light of the rapid developmen”
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