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most citedProgrammable Quantum Simulations of Spin Systems with Trapped Ions

850 citations · 4.5k across the 43 of their papers we have counts for

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44 papers

quant-ph2023

Pairwise-parallel entangling gates on orthogonal modes in a trapped-ion chain

Yingyue Zhu, Alaina M. Green, Nhung H. Nguyen +3

Parallel operations are important for both near-term quantum computers and larger-scale fault-tolerant machines because they reduce execution time and qubit idling. We propose and…

quant-ph2022

Probing The Unitarity of Quantum Evolution Through Periodic Driving

Alaina M. Green, Tanmoy Pandit, C. Huerta Alderete +2

As quantum computers and simulators begin to produce results that cannot be verified classically, it becomes imperative to develop a variety of tools to detect and diagnose experim…

quant-ph2022★ 6 cited

Bespoke Pulse Design for Robust Rapid Two-Qubit Gates with Trapped Ions

Seyed Shakib Vedaie, Eduardo J. Páez, Nhung H. Nguyen +2

Two-qubit gate performance is vital for scaling up ion-trap quantum computing. Optimized quantum control is needed to achieve reductions in gate-time and gate error-rate. We descri…

quant-ph2022★ 1 cited

Realizing two-qubit gates through mode engineering on a trapped-ion quantum computer

Ming Li, Nhung H. Nguyen, Alaina M. Green +3

Two-qubit gates are a fundamental constituent of a quantum computer and typically its most challenging operation. In a trapped-ion quantum computer, this is typically implemented w…

quant-ph2022★ 4 cited

Para-particle oscillator simulations on a trapped ion quantum computer

C. Huerta Alderete, Alaina M. Green, Nhung H. Nguyen +3

Deformed oscillators allow for a generalization of the standard fermions and bosons, namely, for the description of para-particles. Such particles, while indiscernible in nature, c…

quant-ph2022★ 8 cited

Surviving The Barren Plateau in Variational Quantum Circuits with Bayesian Learning Initialization

Ali Rad, Alireza Seif, Norbert M. Linke

Variational quantum-classical hybrid algorithms are seen as a promising strategy for solving practical problems on quantum computers in the near term. While this approach reduces t…

quant-ph2022★ 18 cited

Multi-round QAOA and advanced mixers on a trapped-ion quantum computer

Yingyue Zhu, Zewen Zhang, Bhuvanesh Sundar +5

Combinatorial optimization problems on graphs have broad applications in science and engineering. The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a method to solve these p…

quant-ph2021★ 135 cited

Digital Quantum Simulation of the Schwinger Model and Symmetry Protection with Trapped Ions

Nhung H. Nguyen, Minh C. Tran, Yingyue Zhu +4

Tracking the dynamics of physical systems in real time is a prime application of digital quantum computers. Using a trapped-ion system with up to six qubits, we simulate the real-t…

quant-ph2021★ 1 cited

Experimental Measurement of Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlators at Finite Temperature

Alaina M. Green, A. Elben, C. Huerta Alderete +6

Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) are a key observable in a wide range of interconnected fields including many-body physics, quantum information science, and quantum gravity.…

quant-ph2021★ 13 cited

Quantum computational advantage attested by nonlocal games with the cyclic cluster state

Austin K. Daniel, Yinyue Zhu, C. Huerta Alderete +7

We propose a set of Bell-type nonlocal games that can be used to prove an unconditional quantum advantage in an objective and hardware-agnostic manner. In these games, the circuit…

quant-ph2021★ 11 cited

Experimental realization of para-particle oscillators

C. Huerta Alderete, Alaina M. Green, Nhung H. Nguyen +3

Para-particles are fascinating because they are neither bosons nor fermions. While unlikely to be found in nature, they might represent accurate descriptions of physical phenomena…

quant-ph2021★ 39 cited

Cross-Platform Comparison of Arbitrary Quantum Computations

Daiwei Zhu, Ze-Pei Cian, Crystal Noel +14

As we approach the era of quantum advantage, when quantum computers (QCs) can outperform any classical computer on particular tasks, there remains the difficult challenge of how to…

quant-ph2021★ 2 cited

Bounds on the recurrence probability in periodically-driven quantum systems

Tanmoy Pandit, Alaina M. Green, C. Huerta Alderete +2

Periodically-driven systems are ubiquitous in science and technology. In quantum dynamics, even a small number of periodically-driven spins leads to complicated dynamics. Hence, it…

quant-ph2021★ 30 cited

Multiplexed quantum repeaters based on dual-species trapped-ion systems

Prajit Dhara, Norbert M. Linke, Edo Waks +2

Trapped ions form an advanced technology platform for quantum information processing with long qubit coherence times, high-fidelity quantum logic gates, optically active qubits, an…

quant-ph2021★ 4 cited

Toward simulating quantum field theories with controlled phonon-ion dynamics: A hybrid analog-digital approach

Zohreh Davoudi, Norbert M. Linke, Guido Pagano

Quantum field theories are the cornerstones of modern physics, providing relativistic and quantum mechanical descriptions of physical systems at the most fundamental level. Simulat…

quant-ph2021★ 21 cited

Demonstration of Shor encoding on a trapped-ion quantum computer

Nhung H. Nguyen, Muyuan Li, Alaina M. Green +5

Fault-tolerant quantum error correction (QEC) is crucial for unlocking the true power of quantum computers. QEC codes use multiple physical qubits to encode a logical qubit, which…

hep-lat2021★ 37 cited

Real-time quantum calculations of phase shifts using wave packet time delays

Erik Gustafson, Yingyue Zhu, Patrick Dreher +2

We present a method to extract the phase shift of a scattering process using the real-time evolution in the early and intermediate stages of the collision in order to estimate the…

quant-ph2021★ 63 cited

Many-body quantum teleportation via operator spreading in the traversable wormhole protocol

Thomas Schuster, Bryce Kobrin, Ping Gao +7

By leveraging shared entanglement between a pair of qubits, one can teleport a quantum state from one particle to another. Recent advances have uncovered an intrinsically many-body…

quant-ph2021★ 44 cited

Efficient, stabilized two-qubit gates on a trapped-ion quantum computer

Reinhold Blümel, Nikodem Grzesiak, Nhung H. Nguyen +5

Quantum computing is currently limited by the cost of two-qubit entangling operations. In order to scale up quantum processors and achieve a quantum advantage, it is crucial to eco…

quant-ph2020★ 1 cited

Many Body Thermodynamics on Quantum Computers via Partition Function Zeros

Akhil Francis, D. Zhu, C. Huerta Alderete +6

Interacting quantum systems illustrate complex phenomena including phase transitions to novel ordered phases. The universal nature of critical phenomena reduces their description t…

quant-ph2020★ 34 cited

Probing many-body localization on a noisy quantum computer

D. Zhu, S. Johri, N. H. Nguyen +5

A disordered system of interacting particles exhibits localized behavior when the disorder is large compared to the interaction strength. Studying this phenomenon on a quantum comp…

quant-ph2020★ 46 cited

Quantum walks and Dirac cellular automata on a programmable trapped-ion quantum computer

C. Huerta Alderete, Shivani Singh, Nhung H. Nguyen +5

The quantum walk formalism is a widely used and highly successful framework for modeling quantum systems, such as simulations of the Dirac equation, different dynamics in both the…

quant-ph2020★ 13 cited

Quantum circuits for the realization of equivalent forms of one-dimensional discrete-time quantum walks on near-term quantum hardware

Shivani Singh, Cinthia H. Alderete, Radhakrishnan Balu +3

Quantum walks are a promising framework for developing quantum algorithms and quantum simulations. They represent an important test case for the application of quantum computers. H…

quant-ph2019★ 850 cited

Programmable Quantum Simulations of Spin Systems with Trapped Ions

C. Monroe, W. C. Campbell, L. -M. Duan +10

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 le…