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SUBMITTER: Yan LL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4749997 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yan L L LL Wan W W Chen L L Zhou F F Gong S J SJ Tong X X Feng M M
Scientific reports 20160211
Phase transitions have been a research focus in many-body physics over past decades. Cold ions, under strong Coulomb repulsion, provide a repealing paradigm of exploring phase transitions in stable confinement by electromagnetic field. We demonstrate various conformations of up to sixteen laser-cooled (40)Ca(+) ion crystals in a home-built surface-electrode trap, where besides the usually mentioned structural phase transition from the linear to the zigzag, two additional phase transitions to mor ...[more]