2019/07/15 by Philip Kiefer, Frederick Hakelberg, Matthias Wittemer +4 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.123.213605
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 213605 (2019) · 11 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2019/07/15 · arxiv updated 2019/11/27
We demonstrate Floquet engineering in a basic yet scalable 2D architecture of individually trapped and controlled ions. Local parametric modulations of detuned trapping potentials steer the strength of long-range inter-ion couplings and the related Peierls phase of the motional state. In our proof-of-principle, we initialize large coherent states and tune modulation parameters to control trajectories, directions and interferences of the phonon flow. Our findings open a new pathway for future Floquet-based trapped-ion quantum simulators targeting correlated topological phenomena and dynamical gauge fields.