Nonlinear spectroscopy of controllable many-body quantum systems

Abstract

We establish a novel approach to probing spatially resolved multitime correlation functions of interacting many-body systems, with scalable experimental overheads. Specifically, designing nonlinear measurement protocols for multidimensional spectra in a chain of trapped ions with single-site addressability enables us, for example, to distinguish coherent from incoherent transport processes, to quantify potential anharmonicities, and to identify decoherence-free subspaces.