Spontaneous nucleation and dynamics of kink defects in zigzag arrays of trapped ions

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Ejtemaee, S ^a   Haljan, P C ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINK DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NUCLEATION RATE; QUENCH RATE; SPONTANEOUS NUCLEATION; ZIGZAG ARRAY;

DEFECTS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEATION; TRAPPED IONS;

IONS;

EID: 84877933579     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.87.051401     Document Type: Article

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