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A site-resolved two-dimensional quantum simulator with hundreds of trapped ions.

S-A GuoYukai WuJ YeL ZhangW-Q LianR YaoY WangR-Y YanY-J YiY-L XuB-W LiY-H HouY-Z XuW-X GuoC ZhangB-X QiZ-C ZhouL HeLuming Duan
Published in: Nature (2024)
A large qubit capacity and an individual readout capability are two crucial requirements for large-scale quantum computing and simulation 1 . As one of the leading physical platforms for quantum information processing, the ion trap has achieved a quantum simulation of tens of ions with site-resolved readout in a one-dimensional Paul trap 2-4 and of hundreds of ions with global observables in a two-dimensional (2D) Penning trap 5,6 . However, integrating these two features into a single system is still very challenging. Here we report the stable trapping of 512 ions in a 2D Wigner crystal and the sideband cooling of their transverse motion. We demonstrate the quantum simulation of long-range quantum Ising models with tunable coupling strengths and patterns, with or without frustration, using 300 ions. Enabled by the site resolution in the single-shot measurement, we observe rich spatial correlation patterns in the quasi-adiabatically prepared ground states, which allows us to verify quantum simulation results by comparing the measured two-spin correlations with the calculated collective phonon modes and with classical simulated annealing. We further probe the quench dynamics of the Ising model in a transverse field to demonstrate quantum sampling tasks. Our work paves the way for simulating classically intractable quantum dynamics and for running noisy intermediate-scale quantum algorithms 7,8 using 2D ion trap quantum simulators.
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