TY - JOUR T1 - Spectrum estimation of density operators with alkaline-earth atoms Y1 - 2018 A1 - Michael E. Beverland A1 - Jeongwan Haah A1 - Gorjan Alagic A1 - Gretchen K. Campbell A1 - Ana Maria Rey A1 - Alexey V. Gorshkov AB -

We show that Ramsey spectroscopy of fermionic alkaline-earth atoms in a square-well trap provides an efficient and accurate estimate for the eigenspectrum of a density matrix whose n copies are stored in the nuclear spins of n such atoms. This spectrum estimation is enabled by the high symmetry of the interaction Hamiltonian, dictated, in turn, by the decoupling of the nuclear spin from the electrons and by the shape of the square-well trap. Practical performance of this procedure and its potential applications to quantum computing, quantum simulation, and time-keeping with alkalineearth atoms are discussed.

VL - 120 UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.02045 CP - 025301 U5 - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.025301 ER -