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News
Precision measurements and traps are among the driving forces of the new Max Planck-RIKEN-PTB Center for Time, Constants and Fundamental Symmetries. More details about this new Center are described HERE. Have a look at the website for a detailed description, job offers, and recent publications!
Regarding our colleagues from the UK, COST informs us that: Brexit Update: UK government has extended the Underwrite Guarantee of Horizon 2020 to COST. The UK government has committed to provide funding for eligible UK participation in COST Actions until the end of 2020 in case of a no-deal Brexit.
Special Issue in Applied Sciences (Open Access Journal): “Optical Trapping of Ions and Atoms 2020: Novel Advances and Prospects“, now open for submissions.
Guest Editors: Tobias Schätz, Vladan Vuletic, Michael Drewsen, Jonathan Home, Leon Karpa Details
EPJ QT special issue: “Quantum Metrology & Quantum Enhanced Measurement“. Submissions are accepted from now until 30 June 2021. Details
Events
Early Career Conference on Trapped Ions, to be held at CERN, Geneva 13-17 January 2020. LINK
DPG Spring Meeting “Atomic Physics” 9 – 13 March 2020 in Hannover LINK
CAMEL 16, 15-19 March 2020, Bansko, BG
26th Young Atom Optician (YAO) conference to be held in Aarhus, Denmark 25-29 May 2020 . LINK
52nd EGAS conference, 6-10 July 2020 in Zagreb, Croatia
European Conference on Trapped Ions (ECTI), Djurönäset, Sweden, 13-17 July 2020
13th International Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas, Milano, Italy, 13-16 July 2020 LINK
27th International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP) held in Toronto, Canada, 19-24 July 2020 LINK
CCMI 2020 – Cold and Controlled Molecules and Ions, 6 – 11 September 2020, Durham University, UK, LINK
Jobs
PhD project in machine learning with anti-hydrogen under a CDT in AI, Machine learning and Advanced Computing LINK
A postdoc position on the development of a portable Sr+ ion optical clock will be opened at NRC, Ottawa, Canada. . Details
Postdoc position in the group of Tobias Schaetz at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg:
Qsim – Experimental Quantum Simulations based on Arrays of Individually Trapped Ions LINK
Postdoc position in the group of Tobias Schaetz at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg:
TIAMO: Trapping Ions, Atoms and Molecules Optically – interaction in the ultra-cold quantum regime LINK
TRIUMF is looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher (in collaboration with MIT), and a research faculty position. More details can be found in the following links: LINK1 and LINK2
A postdoc positions are available at the Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna on physics with trapped charged particles for antihydrogen production (ASACUSA collaboration). LINK
Assistant Professor in the Quantum Light and Matter group at Durham University. Further details
A PhD position is available in the group of Prof. Stefan Willitsch (University of Basel, Switzerland) on cold ion-molecule hybrid systems. See the group’s website for further information.
Two PhD positions are available on fundamental tests based on precision (frequency comb) spectroscopy of trapped He+ ions, molecular hydrogen and quantum-degenerate meta-stable helium at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. More information at: https://www.nat.vu.nl/~kjeld/Positions.html
A new PhD position is open at the Physics department of University of Mainz on “Scalable Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions”. More information is available HERE. The successful candidate will work on a cutting-edge experiment aiming at the realization of elementary quantum algorithms based on shuttling trapped-ion qubits in segmented microchip traps. If you are interested, please contact Ulrich Poschinger (poschin@uni-mainz.de) and Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler (fsk@uni-mainz.de).
LaserLaB VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has an open PhD position on Doppler-free laser spectroscopy of trapped molecular hydrogen ions. LINK
A new PhD position is open at the Physics department of University of Mainz on “Rydberg Ions for Quantum Computation and Quantum Sensing”. More information is available HERE. The successful candidate will work on the experiment that combines exciting aspects of Rydberg physics with trapped-ion qubits. If you are interested, please contact Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler (fsk@uni-mainz.de).
We are currently seeking to recruit two motivated and enthusiastic postdoctoral research associates to join the ALPHA collaboration at CERN/Switzerland. LINK
A PhD position (3 years), fully funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG), is available in the
laser molecular spectroscopy group of Otto Dopfer at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. Details
The Department of Physics at Yale University is inviting applications for a faculty appointment in the area of experimental quantum science. The position is open at all levels. DETAILS
Postdoc and PhD positions on projects in Quantum Computing and Error Correction as well as Quantum Neural Networks with Trapped Ions are available in the Theoretical Quantum Technology Group of Markus Müller at RWTH Aachen and Forschungszentrum Jülich. Please contact Markus Müller for details.
A PhD position in theoretical many-body physics with Rydberg atoms at University Tübingen with Igor Lesanowsky. Please contact directly at igor.lesanovsky@uni-tuebingen.de
We are looking for a PhD student from a European country for an ITN network. The person will work on one of the coolest QT-Flagship projects ever, building a laser system for a transportable optical Sr-clock. Details. In 10 years optical clocks will be all over the place.
A PhD position in theoretical quantum physics in Quantum dynamics of impurities with long-range impurity-bath interactions. Details
PhD Position, Scientist and Developer at Swabian Instruments. Details
A postdoc position on Ultra-stable frequency laser development for ground tests of the payload of LISA mission at SYRTE, Paris,France. Please contact ouali.acef@obspm.fr
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.co
Coherent laser spectroscopy of highly charged ions using quantum logic
P. Micke, T. Leopold, S. A. King, E. Benkler, L. J. Spieß, L. Schmöger, M. Schwarz, J.R. Crespo Lopez-Urrutia & P. O. Schmidt,
Nature, 29 jan 2020
Design and experimental performance of local entanglement witness operators
David Amaro and Markus Müller
Phys. Rev. A 101, 012317 (2020)
Doppler-cooled ions in a compact reconfigurable Penning trap
Brian J. McMahon, Curtis Volin, Wade G. Rellergert, and Brian C. Sawyer
Phys. Rev. A 101, 013408 (2020)
Efficient isotope-selective pulsed laser ablation loading of 174Yb+ ions in a surface electrode trap
Vrijsen, Geert; Aikyo, Yuhi; Spivey, Robert F.; Inlek, I. Volkan; Kim, Jungsang
Optics Express 27(23) 33907-33914 (2019)
Error-mitigated quantum gates exceeding physical fidelities in a trapped-ion system
Shuaining Zhang, Yao Lu, Kuan Zhang, Wentao Chen, Ying Li, Jing-Ning Zhang & Kihwan Kim
Nature Communications volume 11, Article number: 587 (2020)
Feasibility of the ion-trap simulation of a class of non-equilibrium phase transitions
Alba Ramos and Cecilia Cormick
Eur. Phys. J. D (2019) 73: 237
Generation of arbitrary qubit states by adiabatic evolution split by a phase jump
Kaloyan N. Zlatanov and Nikolay V. Vitanov
Phys. Rev. A 101, 013426 (2020)
Interactions and charge-transfer dynamics of an Al+ ion immersed in ultracold Rb and Sr atoms
Michał Tomza and Mateusz Lisaj
Phys. Rev. A 101, 012705 (2020)
Machine learning design of a trapped-ion quantum spin simulator
Yi Hong Teoh, Marina Drygala, Roger G Melko and Rajibul Islam
2020 Quantum Sci. Technol. 5 024001
Multistability of Driven-Dissipative Quantum Spins
Haggai Landa, Marco Schiró, and Grégoire Misguich
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 043601 (2020)
Nonlocal emergent hydrodynamics in a long-range quantum spin system
Alexander Schuckert, Izabella Lovas, and Michael Knap
Phys. Rev. B 101, 020416(R) (2020)
Rotational-state-changing collisions between N+2 and Rb at low energies
A. D. Dörfler, E. Yurtsever, P. Villarreal, T. González-Lezana, F. A. Gianturco, and S. Willitsch
Phys. Rev. A 101, 012706 (2020)
Spatial configurations and temperature profiles in nonequilibrium steady state of two-species trapped ion systems
A. Ruiz-García and D. Alonso
Phys. Rev. E 101, 012129 (2020)
Steady-state force sensing with single trapped ion
Peter A Ivanov
2020 Phys. Scr. 95 025103
Temperature evolution of ions in a Paul trap driven by various radio-frequency waveforms
Hüsnü Aksakal and Ali Selçuk Mercanli
Eur. Phys. J. Plus (2020) 135: 76
Preprints
A Paul Trap with Sectored Ring Electrodes for Experiments with Two-Dimensional Ion Crystals
M. K. Ivory, A. Kato, A. Hasanzadeh, B. Blinov
Coherent rotations of qubits within a multi-species ion-trap quantum computer
Martin W. van Mourik, Esteban A. Martinez, Lukas Gerster, Pavel Hrmo, Thomas Monz, Philipp Schindler, Rainer Blatt
Context-Sensitive and Duration-Aware Qubit Mapping for Various NISQ Devices
Yu Zhang, Haowei Deng, Quanxi Li
Defect generation and dynamics during quenching in finite size homogeneous ion chains
J. Pedregosa-Gutierrez, M. Mukherjee
Electronic bridge excitation in highly charged Th-229 ions
Pavlo V. Bilous, Hendrik Bekker, Julian Berengut, Benedict Seiferle, Lars von der Wense, Peter G. Thirolf, Thomas Pfeifer, José R. Crespo López-Urrutia, Adriana Pálffy
Integrated optical control and enhanced coherence of ion qubits via multi-wavelength photonics
Robert J. Niffenegger, Jules Stuart, Cheryl Sorace-Agaskar, Dave Kharas, Suraj Bramhavar, Colin D. Bruzewicz, William Loh, Robert McConnell, David Reens, Gavin N. West, Jeremy M. Sage, John Chiaverini
Many-Body Dephasing in a Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulator
Harvey B. Kaplan, Lingzhen Guo, Wen Lin Tan, Arinjoy De, Florian Marquardt, Guido Pagano, Christopher Monroe
Quantum information scrambling in a trapped-ion quantum simulator with tunable range interactions
Manoj K. Joshi, Andreas Elben, Benoît Vermersch, Tiff Brydges, Christine Maier, Peter Zoller, Rainer Blatt, Christian F. Roos
Quantum entanglement between an atom and a molecule,
Yiheng Lin, David R. Leibrandt, Dietrich Leibfried, Chin-wen Chou
Sequences of Molmer-Sorensen gates can implement controlled rotations using quantum signal processing techniques
Koen Groenland, Freek Witteveen, Kareljan Schoutens, Rene Gerritsma
Software tools for quantum control: Improving quantum computer performance through noise and error suppression
Harrison Ball, Michael J. Biercuk, Andre Carvalho, Rajib Chakravorty, Jiayin Chen, Leonardo A. de Castro, Steven Gore, David Hover, Michael Hush, Per J. Liebermann, Robert Love, Kevin Nguyen, Viktor S. Perunicic, Harry J. Slatyer, Claire Edmunds, Virginia Frey, Cornelius Hempel, Alistair Milne
Two-qubit quantum Fourier transform and entanglement protected by circulant symmetry
Peter A. Ivanov, Nikolay V. Vitanov
Trapped-ion Fock state preparation by potential deformation
M. A. Simón, M. Palmero, S. Martínez-Garaot, J. G. Muga