Analog-digital quantum simulations with trapped ions
Abstract: Quantum simulators combining Hamiltonian evolution with gate operations represent a powerful approach towards probing many-body physics with NISQ devices. We apply a platform based on a linear chain of trapped 171 Yb+ ions to demonstrate some of the uses of this hybrid strategy, such as characterizing slow correlation growth arising from Stark many-body localization, creating and probing a prethermal discrete time crystal, and expanding the simulation toolbox with Floquet Hamiltonian engineering.
Bio: Dr. William Morong is a postdoctoral associate at the University of Maryland and Joint Quantum Institute, where he works in the trapped-ion quantum information group of Prof. Christopher Monroe. Prior to this, he completed his PhD studying the dynamics of ultracold atoms in optical lattices at the University of Illinois. His research typically involves assembling simple quantum systems into complex many-body states, and attempting to understand the emergent behaviors that result.
