{"id":1658,"date":"2013-12-17T18:50:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T17:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.am.qub.ac.uk\/wp\/qo\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2013-12-17T18:50:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T17:50:27","slug":"matthew-publishes-his-first-paper-in-prb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qteq\/2013\/12\/17\/matthew-publishes-his-first-paper-in-prb\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew publishes his first paper in PRB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew has published his first paper entitled: <a href=\"http:\/\/prb.aps.org\/abstract\/PRB\/v88\/i21\/e214106\">Dynamical symmetry breaking with optimal control: Reducing the number of pieces<\/a> in Phys. Rev. B. The research, conducted in collaboration with Gabriele, has analysed the production of defects when a system crosses a phase transition. As predicted by the Kibble-Zurek mechanism, the rate of production of defects depends on the rate of change of the parameter driving the transition. By carefully tailoring the time-dependence of this parameter Matthew and Gabriele have shown that the number of defects can be drastically reduced by more than 40%. This research can be readily used in experiments of structural phase transitions of trapped ion crystals.<\/p>\n<p>Ref.: Matthew J. M. Power and Gabriele De Chiara, <a href=\"http:\/\/prb.aps.org\/abstract\/PRB\/v88\/i21\/e214106\">Phys. Rev. B 88, 214106 (2013)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew has published his first paper entitled: Dynamical symmetry breaking with optimal control: Reducing the number of pieces in Phys. Rev. B. The research, conducted in collaboration with Gabriele, has analysed the production of defects when a system crosses a phase transition. As predicted by the Kibble-Zurek mechanism, the rate of production of defects depends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qteq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qteq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qteq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qteq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qteq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qteq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qteq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qteq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qteq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}