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SUBMITTER: Cui JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5025896 | biostudies-other | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Scientific reports 20160916
The Kibble-Zurek mechanism is the paradigm to account for the nonadiabatic dynamics of a system across a continuous phase transition. Its study in the quantum regime is hindered by the requisite of ground state cooling. We report the experimental quantum simulation of critical dynamics in the transverse-field Ising model by a set of Landau-Zener crossings in pseudo-momentum space, that can be probed with high accuracy using a single trapped ion. We test the Kibble-Zurek mechanism in the quantum ...[more]