Quantum Simulations on a Quantum Computer

S. Somaroo; C. H. Tseng; T. F. Havel; R. Laflamme; D. G. Cory

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.5381

Quantum Simulations on a Quantum Computer

S. Somaroo, C. H. Tseng, T. F. Havel, R. Laflamme, and D. G. Cory

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 5381 – Published 28 June 1999

Abstract

We present a general scheme for performing a simulation of the dynamics of one quantum system using another. This scheme is used to experimentally simulate the dynamics of truncated quantum harmonic and anharmonic oscillators using nuclear magnetic resonance. We believe this to be the first explicit physical realization of such a simulation.

Received 6 January 1999

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.5381

Authors & Affiliations

S. Somaroo¹, C. H. Tseng^1,2, T. F. Havel¹, R. Laflamme³, and D. G. Cory^4,*

¹BCMP Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
²Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
³Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87455
⁴Department of Nuclear Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139