Bermúdez Carballo, AlejandroMartín-Delgado Alcántara, Miguel ÁngelPorras Torres, Diego2023-06-202023-06-202010-12-091367-263010.1088/1367-2630/12/12/123016https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42803© 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.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.engjournal articlehttp://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/12/12/123016http://iopscience.iop.orgopen access53Anderson localizationResonance FfuorescenceBinary-alloysLatticesAbsenceStatesFísica (Física)22 Física