Equation 15 · Part 1 · Every Crystal Has Its Own Speed of Light
Symbol α
What this part means
pushed toward zero, toward an interaction that barely decays with distance at all, the velocity is consistent with growing without bound, and the light-cone picture stops holding [ 3 ].
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At short range the measured velocity agrees with the ordinary nearest-neighbour prediction; as is pushed toward zero, toward an interaction that barely decays with distance at all, the velocity is consistent with growing without bound, and the light-cone picture stops holding [ 3 ] .
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…and watch the cone respond. Philip Jurcevic and collaborators encoded a tunable-range Ising model on chains of trapped calcium-40 ions, with couplings falling off as 1/|i-j|^{} for an adjustable exponent , and extracted the fastest magnon velocity the resulting dispersion supports. At short range the measured velocity agrees with the ordinary nearest-neighbour prediction; as is pushed toward zero, toward an interaction that barely decays with distance at all, the velocity is…
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