TY - JOUR T1 - Wigner crystals of ions as quantum hard drives JF - Physical Review A Y1 - 2008 A1 - J. M. Taylor A1 - T. Calarco AB - Atomic systems in regular lattices are intriguing systems for implementing ideas in quantum simulation and information processing. Focusing on laser cooled ions forming Wigner crystals in Penning traps, we find a robust and simple approach to engineering non-trivial 2-body interactions sufficient for universal quantum computation. We then consider extensions of our approach to the fast generation of large cluster states, and a non-local architecture using an asymmetric entanglement generation procedure between a Penning trap system and well-established linear Paul trap designs. VL - 78 UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1951v1 CP - 6 J1 - Phys. Rev. A U5 - 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.062331 ER -