Spontaneous nucleation and dynamics of kink defects in zigzag arrays of trapped ions

Trapping of Topological-Structural Defects in Coulomb Crystals

(2013) M. Mielenz et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Direct Observation of the Proliferation of Ferroelectric Loop Domains and Vortex-Antivortex Pairs

(2012) S. C. Chae et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Experimental quantum simulations of many-body physics with trapped ions

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Scaling Behavior and Beyond Equilibrium in the Hexagonal Manganites

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The inhomogeneous Kibble–Zurek mechanism: vortex nucleation during Bose–Einstein condensation

(2011) A del Campo et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Hopping of an impurity defect in ion crystals in linear traps

(2011) J. Liang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW A

Quantum Quench of an Atomic Mott Insulator

(2011) David Chen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Spontaneous nucleation of structural defects in inhomogeneous ion chains

(2010) Gabriele De Chiara et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Optimization of Yb+fluorescence and hyperfine-qubit detection

(2010) S. Ejtemaee et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW A

Quantum Coherence of Discrete Kink Solitons in Ion Traps

(2010) H. Landa et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Structural Defects in Ion Chains by Quenching the External Potential: The Inhomogeneous Kibble-Zurek Mechanism

(2010) A. del Campo et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Spontaneous fluxoid formation in superconducting loops

(2009) R. Monaco et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Causality in Condensates: Gray Solitons as Relics of BEC Formation

(2009) Wojciech H. Zurek   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Spontaneous vortices in the formation of Bose–Einstein condensates

(2008) Chad N. Weiler et al.   NATURE

Structural phase transitions in low-dimensional ion crystals

(2008) Shmuel Fishman et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Winding Up of the Wave-Function Phase by an Insulator-to-Superfluid Transition in a Ring of Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates

(2008) Jacek Dziarmaga et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Double Well Potentials and Quantum Phase Transitions in Ion Traps

(2008) A. Retzker et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS