%0 Journal Article
%A Bermúdez Carballo, Alejandro
%A Martín-Delgado Alcántara, Miguel Ángel
%A Porras Torres, Diego
%T The localization of phonons in ion traps with controlled quantum disorder
%D 2010
%@ 1367-2630
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42803
%X We show that the vibrations of a chain of trapped ions offer an interesting route to explore the physics of disordered quantum systems. By preparing the internal state of the ions in a quantum superposition, we show how the local vibrational energy becomes a stochastic variable, its statistical properties inherited from the underlying quantum parallelism of the internal state. We describe a minimally perturbing measurement of the resonance fluorescence, which allows us to study effects such as Anderson localization without the need for ground-state cooling or individual addressing and thus paves the way for high-temperature ion experiments.
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