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1/∣i−j∣α1/|i-j|^{\alpha}

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Trapped-ion chains make that material-dependence concrete, because they let experimenters dial the range of the interaction 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|^{α\alpha} for an adjustable exponent α\alpha , and extracted the fastest magnon velocity the resulting dispersion supports. At short range the measured velocity agrees with the ordinary nearest-neighbour prediction; as α\alpha 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…

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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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1/∣i−j∣α1/|i-j|^{\alpha}

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Trapped-ion chains make that material-dependence concrete, because they let experimenters dial the range of the interaction 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|^{α\alpha} for an adjustable exponent α\alpha , and extracted the fastest magnon velocity the resulting dispersion supports. At short range the measured velocity agrees with the ordinary nearest-neighbour prediction; as α\alpha 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…

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  • α\alpha: 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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