New Frontiers in Quantum Simulation

Project Information

NewFQS

Grant agreement ID: 630955

Project closed

Start date 1 March 2014

End date 28 February 2018

Funded under

• Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Total cost € 100 000,00

EU contribution € 100 000,00

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
United Kingdom

Objective

"Quantum Simulation has evolved into an active multidisciplinary field in physics, involving experimentalists and theorists working at the interface of Quantum Optics, Condensed Matter physics, and Quantum Information Science. In particular, an increasing experimental effort is focused in new technologies to scale up current setups, such as arrays of ion microtraps and arrays of coupled microwave cavities. A leap in complexity will be achieved in the fowollowing years, since new experiments will be able to enter into the true many-body regime.

NewFQS (New Frontiers in Quantum Simulation) is a theoretical project that will explore the possibilities opened by emerging new technologies for analogical quantum simulation with many-body quantum optical systems. Our focus will be on trapped ion systems and ensembles of qubits coupled to optical or microwave cavities. In particular we will:
(i) Study the idea of ""ion-cluster"" quantum simulation, in wich qubits are replaced by ensembles of ions, and its potential impact in the study of quantum glasses and lattice gauge theories. We will study the collective enhancement of atom-atom interactions in the ion-cluster scheme, and how it may allow us to design robust one and two-dimensional quantum simulations. (ii) Investigate dissipative quantum phase transitions that can be implemented with trapped ions and arrays of microwave cavities, in particular the quantum lattice analogs of the lasing phase transition.
(iii) Design applications of many-body phases of quantum simulators for quantum metrology. The sensitivity of those systems near quantum phase transitions to external perturbations will be exploited as a basic principle for quantum sensing. We will design many-body atomic clocks with quantum simulators, in which entanglement and correlations in quantum systems are used to enhance the precision of interferometric measurements of time and frequencies."

Fields of science

• natural sciences › physical sciences › condensed matter physics
• engineering and technology › materials engineering
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › computer hardware › quantum computers
• natural sciences › physical sciences › optics
• natural sciences › physical sciences › quantum physics › quantum optics

Programme(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Topic(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG - Marie-Curie Action: "Career Integration Grants"

Call for proposal

FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG
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Funding Scheme

MC-CIG - Support for training and career development of researcher (CIG)

Coordinator

THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX

Administrative Contact

Anett Kiss (Dr.)

• EU contribution: € 100 000,00
• Address: SUSSEX HOUSE FALMER ; BN1 9RH Brighton ; United Kingdom
• Region: South East (England) › Surrey, East and West Sussex › Brighton and Hove
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Total cost: No data