Quantum simulator for the O(3) nonlinear sigma model
R. Schützhold, S. Mostame1)
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Dresden, D-01062 Dresden, Germany
PACS: 03.67.-a, 11.10.Kk, 68.65.-k
Abstract
We propose a design for the construction of a laboratory system
based on present-day technology which reproduces and thereby simulates the
quantum dynamics of the O(3) nonlinear sigma model.
Apart from its relevance in condensed-matter theory, this strongly
interacting quantum field theory serves as an important toy model for
quantum chromo-dynamics (QCD) since it reproduces many crucial
properties of QCD.
The proposed design is therefore a feasibility and proof-of-principle
study for more general analogue quantum simulators.