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Events
EQLIPS – Exploring the Quantum limit with Laser-cooled Ions in Penning TrapS, 2-3 July 2018, Hannover, Germany Details
Novel optical clocks in atoms and nuclei, 676. WE-Heraeus-Seminar, 9 – 12 July 2018, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany LINK
Three-day introductory course on quantum information held at the University of Innsbruck from 10-12 July 2018 LINK
Few-body and Collective Many-body Behavior with Charge Impurities in Atomic Quantum Gases, Workshop in Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain, from July 17 to July 20, 2018. LINK
BAD HONNEF PHYSICS SCHOOL ON QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES, 5-10 August 2018, Physikzentrum, Bad Honnef, Germany http://www.dpg-physik.de/dpg/pbh/aktuelles/S118.html
7th International Conference on Trapped Charged Particles and Fundamental Physics (TCP-2018) September 30 – October 5 in Traverse City, Michigan, USA.
ECTI 5 will be held at the Lopatie Conference Center at Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, on November 18-23, 2018. SAVE THE DATE!!
Faraday Discussion “Advances in Ion Spectroscopy – From Astrophysics to Biology”
which will take place between 8-10 April 2019 in York, UK. LINK
Jobs
PhD position in ultracold ion-atom interactions and optical ion trapping, Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg. More info at http://www.qsim.uni-freiburg.de/research/tiamo.
Research Fellow in Experimental Quantum Networking, University of Sussex. Details HERE
Research Fellow in High Precision Spectroscopy, University of Sussex. Details HERE
Postdoc position at JPL in the area of trapped ion clocks and atomic sensors. Details HERE
Postdoctoral Fellow on nEXO Experiment at Carleton University. Details HERE
PhD position in the group of Rene Gerritsma (University of Amsterdam): LINK
PhD position“Laser-cooled ion optical clocks for fundamental physics and redefinition of the second” with Rachel Godun, NPL (Teddington, UK) and Christopher Foot, University of Oxford. Closing date for applications is 31st July 2018. LINK
The ion trap group at Imperial College London is seeking an experimental Research Associate to work on the project “Optimal Control for Robust Ion Trap Quantum Logic”. This project is part of a close collaboration between experiment and theory, led by Professor Richard Thompson and Dr Florian Mintert. Details HERE and HERE
Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University for Ba-tagging with nEXO. Information about the group HERE Interested in the job ? Please contact Thomas Brunner
A postdoctoral position is available in the group of Prof. Thomas Rizzo at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Details
PhD position “Miniature Trapped Ion Optical Clock” in the Time and Frequency department of the FEMTO-ST institute in Besançon, France. More details can be found HERE
A postdoc position in the Theory of Quantum Simulation with Rydberg Systems supported by a recently funded QuantERA grant. DETAILS
Postdoctoral researcher position on precision mass measurements of radioactive isotopes using ion trapping methods in the ERC Consolidator Grant project MAIDEN “Masses, Isomers and Decay studies for Elemental Nucleosynthesis” at the University of Jyväskylä. Deadline for applications: 31.3.2018. More information: LINK
A post-doctoral position “Miniature Trapped Ion Optical Clock” in the Time and Frequency department of the FEMTO-ST institute in Besançon, France. Details can be found here
Experimental PhD position in Trapped Ion Quantum Technologies at Stockholm University. Closing date for application is 24 April 2018. For more information please contact Markus Hennrich and see here.
You can also find postdoc positions in frequency metrology, cold atoms and quantum information
Publications
Please sent informations about your publications to iontrap.newsletter@gmail.com
Blackbody radiation shift assessment for a lutetium ion clock
K. J. Arnold, R. Kaewuam, A. Roy, T. R. Tan & M. D. Barrett
Nature Communications 9, 1650 (2018)
Bounds on Energy Absorption and Prethermalization in Quantum Systems with Long-Range Interactions
Wen Wei Ho, Ivan Protopopov, and Dmitry A. Abanin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 200601 (2018)
Comparing Zeeman qubits to hyperfine qubits in the context of the surface code: 174Yb+ and 171Yb+
Natalie C. Brown and Kenneth R. Brown
Phys. Rev. A 97, 052301 (2018)
Complex-network description of thermal quantum states in the Ising spin chain
Bhuvanesh Sundar, Marc Andrew Valdez, Lincoln D. Carr, and Kaden R. A. Hazzard
Phys. Rev. A 97, 052320 (2018)
Energy distributions of an ion in a radio-frequency trap immersed in a buffer gas under the influence of additional external forces
I. Rouse and S. Willitsch
Phys. Rev. A 97, 042712 (2018)
Fidelity Witnesses for Fermionic Quantum Simulations
M. Gluza, M. Kliesch, J. Eisert, and L. Aolita
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 190501 (2018)
Generalized Autobalanced Ramsey Spectroscopy of Clock Transitions
V. I. Yudin, A. V. Taichenachev, M. Yu. Basalaev, T. Zanon-Willette, J. W. Pollock, M. Shuker, E. A. Donley, and J. Kitching
Phys. Rev. Applied 9, 054034 (2018)
High-fidelity entanglement between a trapped ion and a telecom photon via quantum frequency conversion
Matthias Bock, Pascal Eich, Stephan Kucera, Matthias Kreis, Andreas Lenhard, Christoph Becher & Jürgen Eschner
Nature Communications 9, 1998 (2018)
Interference of Single Photons Emitted by Entangled Atoms in Free Space
G. Araneda, D. B. Higginbottom, L. Slodička, Y. Colombe, and R. Blatt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 193603 (2018)
Ionic Impurity in a Bose-Einstein Condensate at Submicrokelvin Temperatures
K. S. Kleinbach, F. Engel, T. Dieterle, R. Löw, T. Pfau, and F. Meinert
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 193401 (2018)
Landauer Principle Stands up to Quantum Test
Massimiliano Esposito
Physics 11, 49 (2018)
Long-Distance Single Photon Transmission from a Trapped Ion via Quantum Frequency Conversion
Thomas Walker, Koichiro Miyanishi, Rikizo Ikuta, Hiroki Takahashi, Samir Vartabi Kashanian, Yoshiaki Tsujimoto, Kazuhiro Hayasaka, Takashi Yamamoto, Nobuyuki Imoto, and Matthias Keller
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 203601 (2018)
Motion control and optical interrogation of a levitating single NV in vacuum
G. P. Conangla, A. W. Schell, R. A. Rica, R. Quidant
Nano Lett., Article ASAP (May 2018)
Observation of Entangled States of a Fully Controlled 20-Qubit System
Nicolai Friis, Oliver Marty, Christine Maier, Cornelius Hempel, Milan Holzäpfel, Petar Jurcevic, Martin B. Plenio, Marcus Huber, Christian Roos, Rainer Blatt, and Ben Lanyon
Phys. Rev. X 8, 021012 – Published 10 April 2018
Optical Trapping of Ion Coulomb Crystals
Julian Schmidt, Alexander Lambrecht, Pascal Weckesser, Markus Debatin, Leon Karpa, and Tobias Schaetz
Phys. Rev. X 8, 021028 (2018)
Perfect Diode in Quantum Spin Chains
Vinitha Balachandran, Giuliano Benenti, Emmanuel Pereira, Giulio Casati, and Dario Poletti
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 200603 (2018)
Pulsed dynamical decoupling for fast and robust two-qubit gates on trapped ions
I. Arrazola, J. Casanova, J. S. Pedernales, Z.-Y. Wang, E. Solano, and M. B. Plenio
Phys. Rev. A 97, 052312 (2018)
Quantum simulation and spectroscopy of entanglement Hamiltonians
M. Dalmonte, B. Vermersch & P. Zoller
Nature Physics, 1–5 (2018)
Quantum Simulation of the Quantum Rabi Model in a Trapped Ion
Dingshun Lv, Shuoming An, Zhenyu Liu, Jing-Ning Zhang, Julen S. Pedernales, Lucas Lamata, Enrique Solano, and Kihwan Kim
Phys. Rev. X 8, 021027 (2018)
Revealing missing charges with generalised quantum fluctuation relations
J. Mur-Petit, A. Relaño, R. A. Molina & D. Jaksch
Nature Communications 9, 2006
Semiclassical approach to finite-temperature quantum annealing with trapped ions
David Raventós, Tobias Graß, Bruno Juliá-Díaz, and Maciej Lewenstein
Phys. Rev. A 97, 052310 (2018)
Single-Atom Demonstration of the Quantum Landauer Principle
L. L. Yan, T. P. Xiong, K. Rehan, F. Zhou, D. F. Liang, L. Chen, J. Q. Zhang, W. L. Yang, Z. H. Ma, and M. Feng
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 210601 (2018)
Single-Atom Heat Machines Enabled by Energy Quantization
David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, Alexei Bylinskii, Dorian Gangloff, Rajibul Islam, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, and Vladan Vuletic
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 170601 (2018)
Sustained State-Independent Quantum Contextual Correlations from a Single Ion
F. M. Leupold, M. Malinowski, C. Zhang, V. Negnevitsky, A. Cabello, J. Alonso, and J. P. Home
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 180401 (2018)
Symmetry-protected coherent relaxation of open quantum systems
Moos van Caspel and Vladimir Gritsev
Phys. Rev. A 97, 052106 (2018)
Systematic effects in the HfF+ ion experiment to search for the electron electric dipole moment
A. N. Petrov
Phys. Rev. A 97, 052504 (2018)
Two-frequency operation of a Paul trap to optimise confinement of two species of ions
C.J.Foot, D.Trypogeorgos, E.Bentine, A.Gardner, M.Keller
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 430, July 2018, Pages 117-125
Preprints
Chip-integrated visible-telecom photon pair sources for quantum communication
Authors: Xiyuan Lu, Qing Li, Daron A. Westly, Gregory Moille, Anshuman Singh, Vikas Anant, Kartik Srinivasan
Ergodicity, Entanglement and Many-Body Localization
Authors: Dmitry A. Abanin, Ehud Altman, Immanuel Bloch, Maksym Serbyn
Feasible platform to study negative temperatures
Authors: R. J. de Assis, C. J. Villas-Boas, N. G. de Almeida
Frequency stabilization of a 650 nm laser to I2 spectrum for trapped 138Ba+ ions
Authors: Tian Xie, Naijun Jin, Ye Wang, Junhua Zhang, Mark Um, Pengfei Wang, Kihwan Kim
Introduction to the Dicke model: from equilibrium to nonequilibrium, and vice versa
Authors: Peter Kirton, Mor M. Roses, Jonathan Keeling, Emanuele G. Dalla Torre
Low cost quantum circuits for classically intractable instances of the Hamiltonian dynamics simulation problem
Authors: Yunseong Nam, Dmitri Maslov
Lorentz and CPT Tests with Clock-Comparison Experiments
Alan Kostelecky, Arnaldo J. Vargas
Machine learning assisted readout of trapped-ion qubits
Authors: Alireza Seif, Kevin A. Landsman, Norbert M. Linke, Caroline Figgatt, C. Monroe, Mohammad Hafezi
Method for Determination of Technical Noise Contributions to Ion Motional Heating
Authors: J. A. Sedlacek, J. Stuart, W. Loh, R. McConnell, C. D. Bruzewicz, J. M. Sage, J. Chiaverini
Observation of superconductivity and surface noise using a single trapped ion as a field probe
Authors: K. Lakhmanskiy, P. C. Holz, D. Schärtl, B. Ames, R. Assouly, T. Monz, Y. Colombe, R. Blatt
Quantum Computing Circuits and Devices
Authors: Travis S. Humble, Himanshu Thapliyal, Edgard Munoz-Coreas, Fahd A. Mohiyaddin, Ryan S. Bennink
Resilient entanglement gates for trapped ions
Authors: A. E. Webb, S. C. Webster, S. Collingbourne, D. Bretaud, A. M. Lawrence, S. Weidt, F. Mintert, W. K. Hensinger
Repeated multi-qubit readout and feedback with a mixed-species trapped-ion register
Authors: Vlad Negnevitsky, Matteo Marinelli, Karan Mehta, Hsiang-Yu Lo, Christa Flühmann, Jonathan P. Home
Robust entanglement gates for trapped-ion qubits
Authors: Yotam Shapira, Ravid Shaniv, Tom Manovitz, Nitzan Akerman, Roee Ozeri