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Synthetic gauge fields for vibrational excitations of trapped ions
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posted on 2023-06-08, 15:39 authored by Alejandro Bermudez, Tobias Schaetz, Diego PorrasThe 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.
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Physical Review LettersISSN
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