RT Journal Article
T1 The localization of phonons in ion traps with controlled quantum disorder
A1 Bermúdez Carballo, Alejandro
A1 Martín-Delgado Alcántara, Miguel Ángel
A1 Porras Torres, Diego
AB 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.
PB IOP Publishing
SN 1367-2630
YR 2010
FD 2010-12-09
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42803
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42803
LA eng
NO © IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.We acknowledge support from EU grant PICC (Physics with Ion Coulomb Crystals), QUITEMAD S2009-ESP-1594, FIS2009-10061, CAM-UCM/910758, FPU MEC grant and RyC Y200200074. DP thanks A V Malyshev, K Singer and J Eschner for useful discussions.
NO Unión Europea. FP7
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)
NO Comunidad de Madrid
NO Comunidad de Madrid/Universidad Complutense de Madrid
NO RyC
DS Docta Complutense
RD 17 abr 2025