arXiv:1003.5901

Disentangling phonons from spins in ion-trap-based quantum spin simulators

C.‐C. Joseph Wang, James K. Freericks

Published Mar 30, 2010• 1 citation

Abstract

We compute how phonon creation affects the fidelity of the quantum spin dynamics in trapped ion simulators. A rigorous treatment of the quantum dynamics is made by employing an exact operator factorization of the evolution operator. Although it is often assumed that phonon creation modifies the dynamics of the spin evolution, for an Ising spin-spin interaction in an external magnetic field, phonons have \textit{no effect} on the probabilities of spin product states measured in the direction of the Ising model axis. Phonons play a much more important role in influencing the effective spin dynamics for Heisenberg or XY model spin simulators or for other observables, like witness operators in the Ising model.

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1003.5901

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