Project description
Quantum simulation of open 2D systems
Quantum systems inevitably interact with their environment, leading to complex dynamics that are challenging to simulate. Traditional methods fall short when it comes to investigating the ensuing non-equilibrium physics. This limits our capability to study a range of phenomena, including the role of quantum effects on complex glassy relaxation. Open system evolution furthermore underlies many important processes in chemistry and biology. It even governs the dynamics of information processing. The ERC-funded OPEN-2QS project studies open many-body systems in two dimensions. Using ion crystals with hundreds of addressable particles and tunable dipolar long-ranged interactions, it will provide unprecedented long-time control over quantum correlations. Thereby, the project will open a window for the exploration of emergent phenomena and exotic forms of matter.
Objective
OPEN-2QS aims to deliver a disruptive change in our capabilities of analog quantum simulation of open 2D many-body systems. For the first time, this will allow us to investigate quantum matter with competing coherent and dissipative processes over extremely long times - a regime that is inaccessible by current technology. This will open a new window for the discovery of emergent dynamical phenomena and states of matter, such as quantum glasses. As any system in Nature eventually couples to an environment, and thus is open, the research program of OPEN-2QS will deliver foundations and concepts whose relevance extends to chemistry, biology and information processing, thereby also forming a basis of future technological innovation.
OPEN-2QS’ ambition to redefine the state-of-the-art of open system quantum simulation will be achieved by employing ion crystals, forming two-dimensional geometries, which host >100 individually addressable and mutually coupled particles. Strong state-dependent tunable dipolar Rydberg interactions will allow for a full control over the build-up of quantum correlations in 2D geometries. Vibrational phonon quantum degrees of freedom will enable the engineering of irreversible dissipative processes. The ensuing complex dissipative dynamics will be stabilized over thousands of dissipation cycles via coherence-preserving in-situ optical cooling. Monitoring quantum trajectories under dissipative dynamics and an unprecedented access to reservoir correlation functions will enable the investigation of collective relaxation behavior and exotic forms of matter.
We will study the impact of quantum effects on phase transitions, explore correlated dynamics in quantum glasses, test fundamental principles of quantum thermodynamics, and advance numerical algorithms through a close theory-experiment interplay. To achieve these goals, we have gathered a world-wide unique team of pioneers in trapped ions, Rydberg physics and quantum non-equilibrium theory.
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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72074 Tuebingen
Germany
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