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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 104, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.100503
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- Austrian Science Fund
- European Commission
- Institut fur Quanteninformation GmbH
- UPV-EHU [GIU07/40]
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [FIS2009-12773-C02-01]
- IARPA
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We experimentally demonstrate a quantum walk on a line in phase space using one and two trapped ions. A walk with up to 23 steps is realized by subjecting an ion to state-dependent displacement operations interleaved with quantum coin tossing operations. To analyze the ion's motional state after each step we apply a technique that directly maps the probability density distribution onto the ion's internal state. The measured probability distributions and the position's second moment clearly show the nonclassical character of the quantum walk. To further highlight the difference between the classical (random) and the quantum walk, we demonstrate the reversibility of the latter. Finally, we extend the quantum walk by using two ions, giving the walker the additional possibility to stay instead of taking a step.
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