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Article: Space-time crystals of trapped ions
Title | Space-time crystals of trapped ions |
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Authors | |
Issue Date | 2012 |
Publisher | American Physical Society. The Journal's web site is located at http://journals.aps.org/prl/ |
Citation | Physical Review Letters, 2012, v. 109 n. 16, article no. 163001 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Spontaneous symmetry breaking can lead to the formation of time crystals, as well as spatial crystals. Here we propose a space-time crystal of trapped ions and a method to realize it experimentally by confining ions in a ring-shaped trapping potential with a static magnetic field. The ions spontaneously form a spatial ring crystal due to Coulomb repulsion. This ion crystal can rotate persistently at the lowest quantum energy state in magnetic fields with fractional fluxes. The persistent rotation of trapped ions produces the temporal order, leading to the formation of a space-time crystal. We show that these space-time crystals are robust for direct experimental observation. We also study the effects of finite temperatures on the persistent rotation. The proposed space-time crystals of trapped ions provide a new dimension for exploring many-body physics and emerging properties of matter. © 2012 American Physical Society. |
Description | Accepted manuscript is available on the publisher website. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/256657 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 8.1 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 3.040 |
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dc.contributor.author | Li, Tongcang | - |
dc.contributor.author | Gong, Zhe Xuan | - |
dc.contributor.author | Yin, Zhang Qi | - |
dc.contributor.author | Quan, H. T. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Yin, Xiaobo | - |
dc.contributor.author | Zhang, Peng | - |
dc.contributor.author | Duan, L. M. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Zhang, Xiang | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-24T08:57:31Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-07-24T08:57:31Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Physical Review Letters, 2012, v. 109 n. 16, article no. 163001 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0031-9007 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/256657 | - |
dc.description | Accepted manuscript is available on the publisher website. | - |
dc.description.abstract | Spontaneous symmetry breaking can lead to the formation of time crystals, as well as spatial crystals. Here we propose a space-time crystal of trapped ions and a method to realize it experimentally by confining ions in a ring-shaped trapping potential with a static magnetic field. The ions spontaneously form a spatial ring crystal due to Coulomb repulsion. This ion crystal can rotate persistently at the lowest quantum energy state in magnetic fields with fractional fluxes. The persistent rotation of trapped ions produces the temporal order, leading to the formation of a space-time crystal. We show that these space-time crystals are robust for direct experimental observation. We also study the effects of finite temperatures on the persistent rotation. The proposed space-time crystals of trapped ions provide a new dimension for exploring many-body physics and emerging properties of matter. © 2012 American Physical Society. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | American Physical Society. The Journal's web site is located at http://journals.aps.org/prl/ | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Physical Review Letters | - |
dc.title | Space-time crystals of trapped ions | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_OA_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.163001 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 23215073 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84867540344 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 109 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 16 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | article no. 163001 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | article no. 163001 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1079-7114 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000309815700004 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0031-9007 | - |