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Laser-excited oscillations of ion crystals can be used to make ions interact like magnetic quantum particles. This mechanism has now been demonstrated in a large, two-dimensional ion lattice. See Letter p.489

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Figure 1: Vibrational modes of a two-dimensional ion crystal.

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  1. Christian Roos is at the Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.,

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Roos, C. Simulating magnetism. Nature 484, 461–462 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/484461a

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