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News
Congratulations to Peter Zoller who has been awarded the first Norman F. Ramsey Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, and in Precision Tests of Fundamental Laws and Symmetries. Details
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
Post-doctoral position to study chemical reactions between sympathetically cooled and trapped molecular ions and cold neutral radicals, Details with Heather Lewandoski
Postdoc position for the NIST Al+ quantum-logic clock. For details contact David Leibrandt
Within the ERC advanced grant (AdG) “PREMOL – At the crossroad of molecular physics, quantum optics and spectroscopy: ultra-high-precision molecular spectroscopy for fundamental physics” 2 post-doc positions and 2 Ph.D. student positions are available starting 1. Sept. 2018. More details HERE
Research scientist/engineer in MEMS ion trap devices at NPL. For additional information, contact Alastair Sinclair.
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
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
A unified treatment of polynomial solutions and constraint polynomials of the Rabi models
Alexander Moroz
2018 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 51 295201
A trapped ion in an optomechanical system: entanglement dynamics
Marziyeh Hassani Nadiki, Mohammad Kazem Tavassolya and Navid Yazdanpanah
Eur. Phys. J. D (2018) 72: 110
Angular distribution and polarization of X-ray radiation in highly charged He-like ions: hyperfine-induced transition
Zhan-Bin Chen1,2,3a and Chen-Zhong Dong2b
Eur. Phys. J. D (2018) 72: 101
Atomic clocks for geodesy
Tanja E Mehlstäubler, Gesine Grosche, Christian Lisdat, Piet O Schmidt and Heiner Denker
2018 Rep. Prog. Phys. 81 064401
Conditions for anti-Zeno-effect observation in free-space atomic radiative decay
Emmanuel Lassalle, Caroline Champenois, Brian Stout, Vincent Debierre, and Thomas Durt
Phys. Rev. A 97, 062122 (2018)
Direct Frequency-Comb-Driven Raman Transitions in the Terahertz Range
C. Solaro, S. Meyer, K. Fisher, M. V. DePalatis, and M. Drewsen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 253601 (2018)
Energy consumption for ion-transport in a segmented Paul trap
A Tobalina, J Alonso and J G Muga
2018 New J. Phys. 20 065002
Information-entropic measures for non-zero l states of confined hydrogen-like ions
Neetik Mukherjee and Amlan K. Roya
Eur. Phys. J. D (2018) 72: 118
Intensity stabilisation of optical pulse sequences for coherent control of laser‑driven qubits
J. Thom, B. Yuen, G. Wilpers, E. Riis, A. G. Sinclair
Applied Physics B (2018), 124: 90.
Ion string qubits
Noriaki Horiuchi
Nature Photonics 12, 313 (2018)
Long-Term Monitoring of the Internal Energy Distribution of Isolated Cluster Systems
Christian Breitenfeldt, Klaus Blaum, Sebastian George, Jürgen Göck, Gregorio Guzmán-Ramírez, Jonas Karthein, Thomas Kolling, Michael Lange, Sebastian Menk, Christian Meyer, Jennifer Mohrbach, Gereon Niedner-Schatteburg, Dirk Schwalm, Lutz Schweikhard, and Andreas Wolf
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 253001 (2018)
Machine learning & artificial intelligence in the quantum domain: a review of recent progress
Vedran Dunjko and Hans J Briegel
2018 Rep. Prog. Phys. 81 074001
Many-body localization transition with power-law interactions: Statistics of eigenstates
K. S. Tikhonov and A. D. Mirlin
Phys. Rev. B 97, 214205 (2018)
Markovian heat sources with the smallest heat capacity
Raam Uzdin, Simone Gasparinetti, Roee Ozeri and Ronnie Kosloff
2018 New J. Phys. 20 063030
Noise analysis for high-fidelity quantum entangling gates in an anharmonic linear Paul trap
Yukai Wu, Sheng-Tao Wang, and L.-M. Duan
Phys. Rev. A 97, 062325 (2018)
Nonclassical Light from Large Ensembles of Trapped Ions
P. Obšil, L. Lachman, T. Pham, A. Lešundák, V. Hucl, M. Čížek, J. Hrabina, O. Číp, L. Slodička, and R. Filip
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 253602 (2018)
Phase-space study of surface-electrode Paul traps: Integrable, chaotic, and mixed motions
V. Roberdel, D. Leibfried, D. Ullmo, and H. Landa
Phys. Rev. A 97, 053419 (2018)
Prethermalization in an trapped ion spin chain with short interaction range
Ping Zou and Zhi-Ming Zhang
2018 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 51 145003
Rotational Spectroscopy of a Triatomic Molecular Anion
Olga Lakhmanskaya, Malcolm Simpson, Simon Murauer, Markus Nötzold, Eric Endres, Viatcheslav Kokoouline, and Roland Wester
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 253003 (2018)
Scaling Trapped Ion Quantum Computers Using Fast Gates and Microtraps
Alexander K. Ratcliffe, Richard L. Taylor, Joseph J. Hope, and André R. R. Carvalho
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 220501 (2018)
Toward Heisenberg-Limited Rabi Spectroscopy
Ravid Shaniv, Tom Manovitz, Yotam Shapira, Nitzan Akerman, and Roee Ozeri
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 243603 (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
Accessing eigenstate spin-glass order from reduced density matrices
Younes Javanmard, Soumya Bera, Markus Heyl
Achieving continuously tunable critical exponents
Fan Yang, Shao-Jian Jiang, Fei Zhou
Dipolar quantum logic for freely-rotating trapped molecular ions
Eric R. Hudson, Wesley C. Campbell
Experimental quantification of spatial correlations in quantum dynamics
Lukas Postler, Ángel Rivas, Philipp Schindler, Alexander Erhard, Roman Stricker, Daniel Nigg, Thomas Monz, Rainer Blatt, Markus Müller
Feasible platform to study negative temperatures
R. J. de Assis, C. J. Villas-Boas, N. G. de Almeida
Introduction to the Dicke model: from equilibrium to nonequilibrium, and vice versa
Peter Kirton, Mor M. Roses, Jonathan Keeling, Emanuele G. Dalla Torre
Method for Determination of Technical Noise Contributions to Ion Motional Heating
J. A. Sedlacek, J. Stuart, W. Loh, R. McConnell, C. D. Bruzewicz, J. M. Sage, J. Chiaverini
Out-of-time-ordered-correlator quasiprobabilities robustly witness scrambling
José Raúl González Alonso, Nicole Yunger Halpern, Justin Dressel
Probing entanglement entropy via randomized measurements
Tiff Brydges, Andreas Elben, Petar Jurcevic, Benoît Vermersch, Christine Maier, Ben P. Lanyon, Peter Zoller, Rainer Blatt, Christian F. Roos
Quantum Simulations with a Trilinear Hamiltonian
Shiqian Ding, Gleb Maslennikov, Roland Hablützel, Dzmitry Matsukevich
Rayleigh scattering of twisted light by hydrogenlike ions
A. A. Peshkov, A. V. Volotka, A. Surzhykov, S. Fritzsche
Verified Quantum Information Scrambling
Kevin A. Landsman, Caroline Figgatt, Thomas Schuster, Norbert M. Linke, Beni Yoshida, Norman Y. Yao, Christopher Monroe