Observation of prethermalization in long-range interacting spin chains

Brian Neyenhuis; Jiehang Zhang; Paul W. Hess; Jacob Smith; Aaron C. Lee; Phil Richerme; Zhe-Xuan Gong; Alexey V. Gorshkov; Christopher Monroe

doi:10.1126/sciadv.1700672

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Observation of prethermalization in long-range interacting spin chains

Brian Neyenhuis¹,*,
Jiehang Zhang¹,*,
Paul W. Hess¹,
Jacob Smith¹,†,
Aaron C. Lee¹,
Phil Richerme²,
Zhe-Xuan Gong¹,
Alexey V. Gorshkov¹ and
Christopher Monroe¹

¹Joint Quantum Institute and Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, University of Maryland Department of Physics and National Institute of Standards and Technology, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
²Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.

↵*Corresponding author. Email: jiehang.zhang{at}gmail.com

↵† Present address: Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, VA 22311, USA.

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Science Advances 25 Aug 2017:
Vol. 3, no. 8, e1700672
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1700672

Brian Neyenhuis

Joint Quantum Institute and Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, University of Maryland Department of Physics and National Institute of Standards and Technology, College Park, MD 20742, USA.

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Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.

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