Research report 2007 - Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
An important step towards understanding nature
Authors
Schätz, Tobias
Departments
Quantensimulationen (Dr. Tobias Schätz)
MPI für Quantenoptik, Garching
Summary
A deeper insight into complex quantum systems requires computer simulations to improve by a large amount. This could in principle be done by a universal quantum computer, its experimental set up is however a decade away. For certain tasks, e.g. the simulation of quantum magnetism or high-temperature supraconductivity, an analog quantum simulator could be a short cut. A very promising concept is an ion trap with the ions serving as quantum bits.