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Self-organisation and phase transitions in ion Coulomb Crystals
Ramil Nigmatullin
C^3 Symposium11 December 2017
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Outline
• Ion Coulomb crystals as models of collective phenomenon
• Collective Phenomenon 1 – formation of topological defects• Kibble-Zurek mechanism
• Collective Phenomenon 2 - pinned to sliding transition between atomic contacts • Aubry phase transition
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Coulomb crystals
• Paul or Penning traps + Laser Cooling = ion Coulomb crystals• Few control parameters but complex structures• Crystals of electrons is known as Wigner crystal
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Paul Trap and Penning Trap
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Equations of motionThe potential energy of N ions in a Paul or Penning trap using the pondermotive approximation is
Under the influence of laser cooling, equations of motion are approximately
where and
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Ion Coulomb crystals in Penning Traps
Science, 282, 1290, (1998)
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Ion Coulomb crystals in Paul Traps
PTB
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How does the trap typically look like?
Ion trap experimental setup | Credit: NQIT/Stuart BebbMiniturized Paul trap | Credit: PTB/Karsten Pyka
Applications• Spectroscopy, metrology• Quantum computing, complexity and self-organization
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Collective phenomenon 1 – Formation of topological defects
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Thermodynamic Phase Transitions– Correspond to abrupt changes in thermodynamic quantities
– Can be first or second order
– Qualitative behavior near critical points is does not depend on microscopic details of the system
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Thermodynamic Phase Transitions
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– The vicinity of the critical point of 2nd order phase transition is characterized by divergences in thermodynamic quantities, e.g. heat capacity, susceptibility, correlation length, relaxation time etc.
– Divergence of correlation length and relaxation time
– Exponents ν and μ are universal
Critical exponents
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Non-equilibrium Phase Transitions
Phase transition
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Non-equilibrium Thermodynamic Phase Transitions
Rapid quench through critical point.Non-equilibrium phase transition
Domain wallDomain
Formation of defects
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Defects in various systems
O.Lavrentovich/Kent State Univ.
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Defects in various systems
B. P. Anderson, Nature,455,948 (2008)
Bose-Einstein condensates
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Defects in various systems
N. A. Spaldin et al, Phys. Rev. X 2, 041022 (2012)
Ferroelectric domains of YMnO3
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Defects in various systems
N. A. Spaldin et al, arXiv:1204.3785
Ferroelectric domains of YMnO3
Question: how does the probability of creating a defect depends on the rate of change of the control parameter?
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Kibble-Zurek mechanismHow does the number of defects depends on the quench rate?
Nature 317, 505–508 (1985)
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2519 (1996)
Formation of domains during phase transitions - Time Dependent Ginzburg Landau simulation
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•Divergence of correlation length and relaxation time
•Linear quench
•Use the condition, ,,, to signal the breakdown of adiabaticity
adiabatic adiabatic
non-adiabatic
Kibble-Zurek mechanism
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•Divergence of correlation length and relaxation time
•Linear quench
Kibble-Zurek mechanism
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•Use the condition, , to signal the breakdown of adiabaticity
•Leads to maximum correlation length
adiabatic adiabatic
non-adiabatic
Kibble-Zurek mechanism
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Experimental tests of Kibble-Zurek scaling lawChallenges- precise variation of the control parameter over several orders of magnitude- Inhomogeneities and impurities in the system- Finite size of the system- Equilibrium critical exponents may be unknown
Examples of the systems where KZ mechanism has been observed- Bose-Einstein condensates- Ferroelectrics- Ion crystals- . . .
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• Weakening of the confining potential induces PT• Second order phase transition [Phys. Rev. B, 77, 064111 (2008)]• Described by Ginzburg-Landau theory• Both the static and dynamic critical exponents are known
G.Birkl/MPQ
Linear to zigzag phase transition in Coulomb crystals
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• Structure interpolates between two ground states• Resistant to perturbations
Linear to zigzag transition
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Typical experimental runs
Nature Communications, 4, 2291, (2013)
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Results
• KZ mechanism and scaling observed in ion crystals
However • System is small – finite size effects• System is inhomogeneous
Nature Communications, 4, 2291, (2013)
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Further work- Accounting for inhomogeneities and finite size effects- Stochastic thermodynamics – entropy production- Quantum regime- First order phase transitions?
- Other geometries
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Further work- Accounting for inhomogeneities and finite size effects- Stochastic thermodynamics – entropy production- Quantum regime- First order phase transitions?
- Other geometries
Phys. Rev. B, B 93, 014106 (2016)
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Further work- Accounting for inhomogeneities and finite size effects- Stochastic thermodynamics – entropy production- Quantum regime- First order phase transitions?
- Other geometries
Phys. Rev. B, B 93, 014106 (2016)
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Collective phenomenon 2 – Aubry phase transition
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Aubry phase transitionConsider a chain of coupled particles moving in a periodic potential.
This is a good model of nanofriction
For incommensurate ratio 𝑎𝑎/𝜆𝜆 there exist a transitionfrom pinned to freely sliding chain.This is the Aubry transition.
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Frenkel-Kontorova model
A simple mathematical model for this system is the Frenkel-Kontorova model
The equilibrium configurations are found by solving a system of equations
i.e.
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Frenkel-Kontorova model
The iterative map
Can be written as
where and
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Frenkel-Kontorova model
This is Chirikov’s standard map!
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Standard Map
Increasing 𝜆𝜆order chaos
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Frenkel-Kontorova model
• Ordered phase is frictionless• In the chaotic phase the particles are pinned. There are
exponentially many degenerate states in the vicinity of the ground state – glassy phase.
J. Phys. C: Solid State Phys. 16, 1593 (1983)
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Aubry transition in ion traps with an additional optical lattice
Theoretical proposals:• Garcia-Mata et al, Eur. Phys. J. D. 41, 325 (2007)• Benassi et al, Nature Communications, 2 236 (2011)
Experiments• Science 348 (6239), 1115-1118 (2015)• Nature Physics 11, 915-919 (2015)• Nature Materials 15, 717-721 (2016)
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Our idea – use a zigzag crystal without an optical lattice• Two row ion crystal can be used to study friction• Shear force is introduced either by application of electric field or radiation
pressure• The distance between rows is controlled by varying the trapping potential
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Results
legend:
exp. Data (0.5±0.4 mK)
theory T=0K
sim. T = 5 µKsim. T = 50 µKsim. T = 1 mK
Shear mode, excited by intensity modulation of cooling beam
Kiethe et al., Nature Communications 8 15364 (2017)ratio of axial to radial confining frequency
The experiments were conducted in the National Metrology Laboratory in Braunschweig, Germany.
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Conclusions and Future workWe have• Introduced a novel model system for investigating friction in
molecular fibres (e.g. proteins, DNA and other deformable nanocontacts.)
• Investigated the pinned to sliding phase transition in the self-organized ion Coulomb crystal
Future work• Understand Aubry transition in the presence of backaction• Understand the effect of inhomogeneities and of finite size• Time dependent driving – kinetic friction• More complex crystal geometries• Quantum regime