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Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 5381 - 5384 (1999)

Quantum Simulations on a Quantum Computer

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S. Somaroo1, C. H. Tseng1,2, T. F. Havel1, R. Laflamme3, and D. G. Cory4 *
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

Featured in Physics News Update Received 6 January 1999

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.


©1999 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.5381
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.5381
PACS: 03.67.-a, 76.60.-k

* Author to whom correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed.Email address: dcory@mit.edu

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