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Christopher W Wächtler1, Gloria Platero1,2
1Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid ICMM-CSIC, 1, Madrid 28049, Spain.
Abstract:
The interplay between external gauge fields and lattice geometry can induce extreme localization dynamics through complete destructive interference. We show that combining this flux-induced localization with engineered dissipation leads to robust spin synchronization in rotationally symmetric spin geometries, referred to as Aharonov-Bohm motifs, with cyclic symmetries of any order. The synchronized dynamics is independent of initial conditions and features entanglement among spins within each motif. We further demonstrate that multiple motifs can fully synchronize when coupled, which is achieved by applying additional collective dissipation acting on all intramotif spins. These results reveal a direct connection between flux-induced localization, dissipative engineering, and collective quantum synchronization.
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