Scientific paper on ultracold atoms and fermionic ions
published in Physical Review Letters
Researchers from the universities in Mainz, Frankfurt,
Hamburg, and Ulm have proposed a new platform for quantum simulation. In a
theoretical paper recently published in Physical Review Letters, they show that
a combined system of ultracold trapped ions and fermionic atoms could be used
to emulate solid state physics. This system may outperform possibilities of
existing platforms as a number of phenomena found in solid state systems are
naturally included, such as the fermionic statistics of the electrons and the
electron-sound wave interactions.