Programmable Quantum Simulators and Sensors with Atoms and Ions
Prof. Peter Zoller (University of Innsbruck and IQOQI - Austria)

The development of atomic quantum simulation platforms has led to the creation of a new generation of programmable quantum simulators that can be scaled to large particle numbers while maintaining a certain degree of programmability.
This talk reports on theory-experiment collaborative work using trapped ion platforms with up to fifty-one qubits/spins, where we develop and demonstrate quantum protocols that can address questions ranging from fundamental to practical.
Examples include first observation of area law vs. volume law entanglement in ground and excited states of many-body systems, and quantum simulators acting as programable quantum sensors implementing near “optimal” entanglement-enhanced quantum metrology.