Nature Physics, Published online: 17 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02751-2
Long-range interactions have been predicted to enable a phase transition in one-dimensional systems. An experiment now validates this hypothesis in a trapped-ion quantum simulator by observing a finite-energy phase transition in one dimension.
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