Publications
2012
N. Y. Yao, L. Jiang, A. V. Gorshkov, P. C. Maurer, G. Giedke, J. I. Cirac and M. D. Lukin
Scalable architecture for a room temperature solid-state quantum information processor
Nature Comm. 3, 800 (2012)
A. Steffen, A. Alberti, W. Alt, N. Belmechri, S. Hild, M. Karski, A. Widera and D. Meschede
A digital atom interferometer with single particle control on a discretized spacetime geometry
Accepted, (2012)
2011
A. Ahlbrecht, A. Alberti, D. Meschede, V. B. Scholz, A. H. Werner and R. F. Werner
Bound Molecules in an Interacting Quantum Walk
arXiv:1105.1051 (2011)
M. Karski, L. Förster, J. Choi, W. Alt, A. Alberti, A. Widera and D. Meschede
Direct Observation and Analysis of Spin-Dependent Transport of Single Atoms in a 1D Optical Lattice
J. Korean Phys. Soc. 59, 2947 (2011)
A. Widera, W. Alt and D. Meschede
Coherently Walking, Rocking and Blinding Single Neutral Atoms
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 264, 012021 (2011)
A. Mawardi, S. Hild, A. Widera and D. Meschede
ABCD-treatment of a propagating doughnut beam generated by a spiral phase plate Optics Express 19, 21205 (2011)
K. G. H. Vollbrecht, Ch. A. Muschik and J. I. Cirac
Entanglement distillation by dissipation and continuous quantum repeaters
Phys.Rev.Lett. 107, 120502 (2011)
N. Schuch, D. Perez-Garcia and J. I. Cirac
Classifying quantum phases using MPS and PEPS
Phys Rev. B 84, 165139 (2011)
J. Haegeman, J. I. Cirac, T. J. Osborne, I. Pizorn, H. Verschelde and F. Verstraete
Time dependent variational principle for quantum lattices
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 070601 (2011)
L. Lamata, D. R. Leibrandt, I. L. Chuang, J. I. Cirac, M. D. Lukin, V. Vuletic and S. F. Yelin
Ion Crystal Transducer for Strong Coupling between Single Ions and Single Photons
Phys. Rev. Lett 107, 030501 (2011)
L. Lamata, D. R. Leibrandt, I. L. Chuang, J. I. Cirac, M. D. Lukin, V. Vuletic and S. F. Yelin
Ion Crystal Transducer for Strong Coupling between Single Ions and Single Photons
Phys. Rev. Lett 107, 030501 (2011)
Ch. A. Muschik, E. S. Polzik and J. I. Cirac
Dissipatively driven entanglement of two macroscopic atomic ensembles
Phys. Rev. A 83, 052312 (2011)
M. C. Bañuls, J. I. Cirac and M. B. Hastings
Strong and weak thermalization of infinite nonintegrable quantum systems
Phys. Rev. Lett 106, 050405 (2011)
F. Pastawski, L. Clemente and J. I. Cirac
Quantum memories based on engineered dissipation
Phys. Rev. A 83, 012304 (2011)
O. Romero-Isart, A. C. Pflanzer, M. L. Juan, R. Quidant, N. Kiesel, M. Aspelmeyer and J. I. Cirac
Optically levitating dielectrics in the quantum regime: Theory and protocols
Phys.Rev. A 83, 013803 (2011)
2010
M. Karski, L. Förster, J. Choi, A. Steffen, N. Belmechri, W. Alt, D. Meschede and A. Widera
Imprinting Patterns of Neutral Atoms in an Optical Lattice using Magnetic Resonance Techniques
New J. Phys. 12, 065027 (2010)
J.Haegeman, J. I. Cirac, T. J. Osborne, H. Verschelde and F. Verstraete
Applying the variational principle to (1+1)-dimensional quantum field theories
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 251601 (2010)
N. Schuch, I. Cirac and D. Perez-Garcia
PEPS as ground states: degeneracy and topology
Ann. Phys. 325, 2153 (2010)
F. Mezzacapo and J. I. Cirac
Ground-state properties of the spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice: A variational study based on entangled-plaquette states
New J. Phys. 12, 103039 (2010)
J. I. Cirac, P. Maraner and J. K. Pachos
Cold atom simulation of interacting relativistic quantum field theories
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 190403 (2010)
F. Pastawski, A. Kay, N. Schuch and I. Cirac
Limitations of passive protection of quantum information
Quantum Information & Computation 10, 0580 (2010)
A. Sfondrini, J. Cerrillo, N. Schuch and J. I. Cirac
Simulating two- and three-dimensional frustrated quantum systems with string-bond states
Phys. Rev. B 81, 214426 (2010)
F. Verstraete and J. I. Cirac
Continuous Matrix Product States for Quantum Fields
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 190405 (2010)
Ch. V. Kraus, N. Schuch, F. Verstraete and J. I. Cirac
Fermionic Projected Entangled Pair States
Phys Rev. A 81, 052338 (2010)
S. Perseguers, M. Lewenstein, A. Acín and J. I. Cirac
Quantum random networks
Nature Phys. 6, 539 (2010)
J. I. Cirac and G. Sierra
Infinite matrix product states, Conformal Field Theory and the Haldane-Shastry model
Phys. Rev. B 81, 104431 (2010)
O.Romero-Isart, M. L. Juan, R. Quidant and J. I. Cirac
Towards Quantum Superposition of Living Organisms
New J. Phys. 12 033015 (2010)
V. Murg, J. I. Cirac, B. Pirvu and F. Verstraete
Matrix product operator representations
New J. Phys. 12, 025012 (2010)
D. Perez-Garcia, M. Sanz, C. E. Gonzalez-Guillen, M. M. Wolf and J. I. Cirac
Characterizing symmetries in a projected entangled pair state
New J. Phys. 12, 025010 (2010)
2009
M. Karski, L. Förster, J. Choi, A. Steffen, W. Alt, D. Meschede and A. Widera
Quantum Walk in Position Space with Single Optically Trapped Atoms
Science 325, 174 (2009
L. Förster, M. Karski, J. Choi, A. Steffen, W. Alt, D. Meschede, A. Widera, E. Montano, J. H. Lee, W. Rakreungdet and P. S. Jessen
Microwave Control of Atomic Motion in Optical Lattices
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 233001 (2009)
M. Karski, L. Förster, J. M. Choi, W. Alt, A. Widera and D. Meschede
Nearest-Neighbor Detection of Atoms in a 1D Optical Lattice
by Fluorescence Imaging

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 053001 (2009)
J. I. Cirac and F. Verstraete
Renormalization and tensor product states in spin chains and lattices
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 42, 504004 (2009)
Fabio Mezzacapo, Norbert Schuch, Massimo Boninsegni and J. Ignacio Cirac
Ground-State Properties of Quantum Many-Body Systems: Entangled-Plaquette States and Variational Monte Carlo
New J. Physics 11, 083026 (2009)
F. Verstraete, M. M. Wolf and J. I. Cirac
Quantum computation, quantum state engineering, and quantum phase transitions driven by dissipation
Nature Physics 5, 633 (2009)
F. Pastawski, A. Kay, N. Schuch and I. Cirac
How long can a quantum memory withstand depolarizing noise?
Phys Rev. Lett. 103, 080501 (2009)
M. C. Bañuls, M. B. Hastings, F. Verstraete and I. Cirac
Matrix Product States for dynamical simulation of infinite chains
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 240603 (2009)
M. Sanz, M. M. Wolf, D. Perez-Garcia and J. I. Cirac
Matrix Product States: Symmetries and Two-Body Hamiltonians
Phys. Rev. A 79, 042308 (2009)
K. G. H. Vollbrecht and J. I. Cirac
Quantum simulations based on measurements and feedback control
Phys. Rev. A 79, 042305 (2009)
2008
S. Trotzky, P. Cheinet, S. Fölling, M. Feld, U. Schnorrberger, A. M. Rey,
A. Polkovnikov, E. A. Demler, M. D. Lukin and I. Bloch
Time-Resolved Observation and Control of Superexchange Interactions
with Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices

Science 319, 295 - 299 (2008)
Norbert Schuch, Michael M. Wolf, Karl Gerd H. Vollbrecht and J. Ignacio Cirac
On entropy growth and the hardness of simulating time evolution
arXiv:0801.2078, (2008)
K. G. H. Vollbrecht and J. I. Cirac
Quantum simulators, continuous-time automata, and translationally invariant systems
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 010501 (2008)
2007
T. Wilk, S. C. Webster, A. Kuhn, and G. Rempe
Single-Atom Single-Photon Quantum Interface
Science 317, 488-490 (2007)
M. Hijlkema, B. Weber, H. P. Specht, S. C. Webster, A. Kuhn, and G. Rempe
A Single-Photon Server with Just One Atom
Nature Physics 3, 253-255 (2007)
T. Wilk, S. C. Webster, H. P. Specht, G. Rempe, and A. Kuhn
Polarization-Controlled Single Photons
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 063601 (2007)
T. Wilk, H. P. Specht, S. C. Webster, G. Rempe, and A. Kuhn
Scheme for generating a sequence of single photons of alternating polarisation
J. Mod. Opt. 54, 1569-1580 (2007)
S. Fölling, S. Trotzky, P. Cheinet, M. Feld, R. Saers, A. Widera,
T. Müller and I. Bloch
Direct Observation of Second Order Atom Tunnelling
Nature 448, 1029-1032 (2007)
Pablo Arrighi, Vincent Nesme and Reinhard F. Werner
N-dimensional Quantum Cellular Automata
arXiv:0711.3975, (2007)
Pablo Arrighi, Vincent Nesme and Reinhard F. Werner
One-dimensional quantum cellular automata over finite,
unbounded configurations

arXiv:0711.3517, (2007)
Norbert Schuch, Michael M. Wolf, Frank Verstraete, J. Ignacio Cirac
Strings, Projected Entangled Pair States, and variational Monte Carlo methods
arXiv:0708.1567 (2007)
M. M. Wolf, F. Verstraete, M. B. Hastings, J. I. Cirac
Area laws in quantum systems: mutual information and correlations
arXiv:0704.3906 (2007)
Christine A. Muschik, Ines de Vega, Diego Porras and J. Ignacio Cirac
Quantum processing photonic states in optical lattices
arXiv:quant-ph/0611093 (2007)
K. G. Vollbrecht and J. I. Cirac
Delocalized Entanglement of Atoms in Optical Lattices
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 190502 (2007)
Christina V. Kraus, Michael M. Wolf, and J. Ignacio Cirac
Quantum simulations under translational symmetry
Phys. Rev. A 75, 022303 (2007)
L. Lamata, J. J. Garcia-Ripoll, and J. I. Cirac
How Much Entanglement Can Be Generated between Two Atoms by Detecting Photons?
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 010502 (2007)
Norbert Schuch, Michael M. Wolf, Frank Verstraete, and J. Ignacio Cirac
Computational Complexity of Projected Entangled Pair States
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 140506 (2007)
L. Lamata, J. J. Garcia-Ripoll, and J. I. Cirac
How Much Entanglement Can Be Generated between Two Atoms by Detecting Photons?
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 010502 (2007)
2006
Dan J. Shepherd, Torsten Franz and Reinhard F. Werner
A universally programmable Quantum Cellular Automaton
Phys. Rev. Lett.97, 020502 (2006)
M. Popp, J.-J. Garcia-Ripoll, K. G. Vollbrecht, and J. I. Cirac
Ground-state cooling of atoms in optical lattices
Phys. Rev. A 74, 013622 (2006)