Bermudez, Alejandro, Schaetz, Tobias and Porras, Diego (2011) Synthetic gauge fields for vibrational excitations of trapped ions. Physical Review Letters, 107 (15). p. 150501. ISSN 0031-9007

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Abstract

The vibrations of a collection of ions in a microtrap array can be described in terms of tunneling phonons. We show that the vibrational couplings may be tailored by using a gradient of the trap frequencies together with a periodic driving of the trapping potentials. These ingredients allow us to induce effective gauge fields on the vibrational excitations, such that phonons mimic the behavior of charged particles in a magnetic field. In particular, microtrap arrays are well suited to realize a quantum simulator of the famous Aharonov-Bohm effect and observe the paradigmatic edge states typical from quantum-Hall samples and topological insulators.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics > QC0170 Atomic physics. Constitution and properties of matter Including molecular physics, relativity, quantum theory, and solid state physics
Depositing User:	Diego Porras
Date Deposited:	11 Sep 2013 12:31
Last Modified:	02 Jul 2019 20:07
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/46122

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