Verification of a many-ion simulator of the Dicke model through slow quenches across a phase transition

A. Safavi-Naini, R. J. Lewis-Swan, J. G. Bohnet +7

We use a self-assembled two-dimensional Coulomb crystal of $\sim 70$ ions in the presence of an external transverse field to engineer a simulator of the Dicke Hamiltonian, an iconi…