C10 Young Scientist Award for 2021 Invited Talk: Realizing dynamical quantum phases with trapped ions
Invited
Abstract
Experimental platforms for quantum simulation enable access to new regimes of quantum dynamics far from equilibrium, with microscopic spatial- and temporal- control over interactions. In this talk, I will review progress in understanding how these capabilities can lead to new dynamical symmetry breaking and topological phases without equilibrium analogs, and discuss experimental realizations of two such dynamical phases in trapped ion quantum simulators: i) dynamical symmetry-breaking (“discrete time-crystal”) phases from periodic time-dependent driving and ii) topological edge modes without symmetry-protection enabled by quasiperiodic time-dependent driving.
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Presenters
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Andrew C Potter
Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas at Austin
Authors
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Andrew C Potter
Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas at Austin