Observation of interaction induced Rydberg blockade and local spin freezing in an NMR quantum simulator*

We experimentally emulate interaction induced blockade and local spin freezing in two and three spin-1/2 nuclear spin-systems using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) architecture. These phenomena are identical to the Rydberg blockade and Rydberg biased freezing, which are facilitated by strong inter-particle interactions. In addition, we probe quantum correlations between the qubits under blockade and freezing phenomena using quantum discord. Such studies open up interesting quantum-information perspectives in simulating atomic interactions via NMR architecture.

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