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quant-ph2013★ 33 cited
Dynamics of topological defects in ion Coulomb crystals
Heather L. Partner, Ramil Nigmatullin, Tobias Burgermeister +5
We study experimentally and theoretically the properties of structural defects (kink solitons) in two-dimensional ion Coulomb crystals. We show how different types of kink solitons…
quant-ph2013★ 283 cited
Observation of the Kibble-Zurek scaling law for defect formation in ion crystals
S. Ulm, J. Roßnagel, G. Jacob +8
Traversal of a symmetry-breaking phase transition at a finite rate can lead to causallyseparated regions with incompatible symmetries and the formation of defects at their boundari…