%0 Journal Article
%A Porras Torres, Diego
%A Ivanov, Peter A.
%A Schmidt-Kale, Ferdinand
%T Quantum simulation of the cooperative Jahn-Teller transition in 1D Ion crystals
%D 2012
%@ 0031-9007
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42798
%X The Jahn-Teller effect explains distortions and nondegenerate energy levels in molecular and solid-state physics via a coupling of effective spins to collective bosons. Here we propose and theoretically analyze the quantum simulation of a many-body Jahn-Teller model with linear ion crystals subjected to magnetic field gradients. We show that the system undergoes a quantum magnetic structural phase transition which leads to a reordering of particle positions and the formation of a spin-phonon quasicondensate in mesoscopic ion chains.
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