Nonequilibrium dynamics of isolated trapped ion chain Abstract: We have studied the dynamics of an isolated trapped ion chain under a nonequilibrium initial state in both motional and internal degrees of freedom. For motional state, we find that the local phonon numbers have distinctive dynamics for axial and transverse vibrational directions, showing either a coherent oscillation or a dephasing to Generalized Gibbs Ensemble. For spin state, we show that by engineering the effective Hamiltonian through laser field, we can get a variety of spin wave dynamics according to the integrability and the energy spectrum of the Hamiltonian. Biography: I am currently a Ph.D. student in Department of Physics, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. I received my Bachelor's Degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. |