Structural defects in ion chains by quenching the external potential: The inhomogeneous Kibble-Zurek mechanism

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Del Campo, A ^a,b   De Chiara, G ^c   Morigi, Giovanna ^c,d   Plenio, M B ^a,b   Retzker, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC TRAPS; CONTINUOUS PHASE TRANSITIONS; EXTERNAL POTENTIAL; KIBBLE-ZUREK MECHANISM; LANDAU THEORY; LINEAR PAUL TRAP; NON-EQUILIBRIUM DYNAMICS; ORDER PARAMETER; SPATIAL INHOMOGENEITIES; STRUCTURAL DEFECT; TRANSVERSE SIZES; TRANSVERSE TRAP; TRAPPING FREQUENCY; VIBRATIONAL MOTIONS; ZIGZAG STRUCTURE;

DEFECTS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LASER COOLING; LASER THEORY; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

IONS;

EID: 77955603982     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.075701     Document Type: Article

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