Tools for quantum simulation with ultracold atoms in optical lattices

F Schäfer, T Fukuhara, S Sugawa, Y Takasu… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
After many years of development of the basic tools, quantum simulation with ultracold atoms
has now reached the level of maturity at which it can be used to investigate complex …

Quantum gas microscopy for single atom and spin detection

C Gross, WS Bakr - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
A particular strength of ultracold quantum gases is the range of versatile detection methods
that are available. As they are based on atom–light interactions, the whole quantum optics …

Scalable multipartite entanglement created by spin exchange in an optical lattice

WY Zhang, MG He, H Sun, YG Zheng, Y Liu, A Luo… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Ultracold atoms in optical lattices form a competitive candidate for quantum computation
owing to the excellent coherence properties, the highly parallel operations over spins, and …

Spin-and density-resolved microscopy of antiferromagnetic correlations in Fermi-Hubbard chains

M Boll, TA Hilker, G Salomon, A Omran, J Nespolo… - Science, 2016 - science.org
The repulsive Hubbard Hamiltonian is one of the foundational models describing strongly
correlated electrons and is believed to capture essential aspects of high-temperature …

Exploration of doped quantum magnets with ultracold atoms

A Bohrdt, L Homeier, C Reinmoser, E Demler, F Grusdt - Annals of Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
In the last decade, quantum simulators, and in particular cold atoms in optical lattices, have
emerged as a valuable tool to study strongly correlated quantum matter. These experiments …

Local readout and control of current and kinetic energy operators in optical lattices

A Impertro, S Karch, JF Wienand, SJ Huh… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Quantum gas microscopes have revolutionized quantum simulations with ultracold atoms,
allowing one to measure local observables and snapshots of quantum states. However …

Measuring entanglement entropy in a quantum many-body system

R Islam, R Ma, PM Preiss, M Eric Tai, A Lukin… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Entanglement is one of the most intriguing features of quantum mechanics. It describes non-
local correlations between quantum objects, and is at the heart of quantum information …

Short-range quantum magnetism of ultracold fermions in an optical lattice

D Greif, T Uehlinger, G Jotzu, L Tarruell, T Esslinger - Science, 2013 - science.org
Quantum magnetism originates from the exchange coupling between quantum mechanical
spins. Here, we report on the observation of nearest-neighbor magnetic correlations …

Observation of antiferromagnetic correlations in an ultracold SU(N) Hubbard model

S Taie, E Ibarra-García-Padilla, N Nishizawa… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Mott insulators are paradigmatic examples of strongly correlated physics from which many
phases of quantum matter with hard-to-explain properties emerge. Extending the typical SU …

Quantum simulation of strongly correlated condensed matter systems

W Hofstetter, T Qin - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We review recent experimental and theoretical progress in realizing and simulating many-
body phases of ultracold atoms in optical lattices, which gives access to analog quantum …