Dear all,
congratulations to our colleagues from Sussex University who have won a gold medal for their outreach activities concerning quantum computing (Details). Many groups do have an important public engagement. This is really fun to do, but takes quite some preparation time in order to develop experiments and/or talks which are suitable for a larger public. If you have an outreach acitivity involving ion traps, we would be happy to build a mini-database, in order to allow people to share ideas (and plans for set-ups), which could be helpful for everybody. Just send a short description (or corresponding URL address) mentioning a person to contact to iontrap.newsletter@gmail.com.
Best regards,
your editorial team
News
Hearing at the German parliament about the future of quantum computing (in German) LINK
Events
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
School on Optical Clocks (OCS2018), will be held in Gressoney la Trinité in the Aosta Valley, Italy, from the 9th September to the 14th September 2018. LINK
7th International Conference on Trapped Charged Particles and Fundamental Physics (TCP-2018) September 30 – October 5 in Traverse City, Michigan, USA.
GdR IQFA “Quantum Engineering, Fundamental Aspects to Applications”, 9th Colloquium, 14-16 November 2018, Université de Montpellier, France LINK
ECTI 5 will be held at the Lopatie Conference Center at Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, on November 18-22, 2018. Registration and abstract submission will open on August 15th, 2018. All details HERE
International Conference on Quantum Computation, ICoQC 2018, will be held at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France from 26-30 November 2018 LINK.
Faraday Discussion “Advances in Ion Spectroscopy – From Astrophysics to Biology”
which will take place between 8-10 April 2019 in York, UK. LINK
Jobs
Research fellow in High Precision Spectroscopy, University of Sussex Details
Post-doctoral and PhD positions available on the Lu+ optical atomic clock experiment at the Center for Quantum Technologies in Singapore. Contact Murray Barrett for more information: phybmd@nus.edu.sg
W1 Junior Professor Position in Experimental Quantum Technologies at PTB and Leibniz Universität Hannover Details
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.
Postdoc position at JPL in the area of trapped ion clocks and atomic sensors. Details HERE
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
CPT tests with the antihydrogen molecular ion
Edmund G. Myers
Phys. Rev. A 98, 010101(R) (2018)
Demonstration of a Bayesian quantum game on an ion-trap quantum computer
Neal Solmeyer, Norbert M Linke, Caroline Figgatt, Kevin A Landsman, Radhakrishnan Balu, George Siopsis and C Monroe
2018 Quantum Sci. Technol. 3 045002
Detecting Equilibrium and Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions in Ising Chains via Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlators
Markus Heyl, Frank Pollmann, and Balázs Dóra
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 016801 (2018)
Experimental implementation of generalized transitionless quantum driving
Hu, Chang-Kang; Cui, Jin-Ming; Santos, Alan C.; Huang, Yun-Feng; Sarandy, Marcelo S.; Li, Chuan-Feng; Guo, Guang-Can
Optics Letters 43(13) 3136-3139 (2018)
Integrable Trotterization: Local Conservation Laws and Boundary Driving
Matthieu Vanicat, Lenart Zadnik, and Tomaž Prosen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 030606 (2018)
Phonon localization in an ion chain under irradiation with a Bessel laser beam
Jun Wen, Jian-Qi Zhang, Lei-Lei Yan, Liang Chen, Xiao-Ming Cai, and Mang Feng
Phys. Rev. A 98, 013829 (2018)
A trapped-ion simulator for spin-boson models with structured environments
A Lemmer, C Cormick, D Tamascelli, T Schaetz, S F Huelga and M B Plenio
2018 New J. Phys. 20 073002
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
Protecting quantum memories using coherent parity check codes
Joschka Roffe, David Headley, Nicholas Chancellor, Dominic Horsman and Viv Kendon
2018 Quantum Sci. Technol. 3 035010
Quantum Chemistry Calculations on a Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulator
C. Hempel, C. Maier, J. Romero, J. McClean, T. Monz, H. Shen, P. Jurcevic, B.P. Lanyon, P. Love, R. Babbush, A. Aspuru-Guzik, R. Blatt, and C. F. Roos
Phys. Rev. X 8, 031022 (2018)
Quantum Zeno Effect assisted Spectroscopy of a single trapped Ion
Akira Ozawa, Josue Davila-Rodriguez, Theodor W. Hänsch & Thomas Udem
Scientific Reports, volume 8, Article number: 10643 (2018)
Search for new physics with atoms and molecules
M. S. Safronova, D. Budker, D. DeMille, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, A. Derevianko, and Charles W. Clark
Rev. Mod. Phys. , 025008 (2018)
The Heidelberg compact electron beam ion traps
P. Micke, S. Kühn, L. Buchauer, J. R. Harries, T. M. Bücking, K. Blaum, A. Cieluch, A. Egl, D. Hollain, S. Kraemer, T. Pfeifer, P. O. Schmidt, R. X. Schüssler, Ch. Schweiger, T. Stöhlker, S. Sturm, R. N. Wolf, S. Bernitt, and J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia
Review of Scientific Instruments 89, 063109 (2018)
Topological interface states mediated by spontaneous symmetry breaking
Roman S. Savelev, Maxim A. Gorlach, and Alexander N. Poddubny
Phys. Rev. B 98, 045415 (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
Universal scaling laws for correlation spreading in quantum systems with short- and long-range interactions
Lorenzo Cevolani, Julien Despres, Giuseppe Carleo, Luca Tagliacozzo, and Laurent Sanchez-Palencia
Phys. Rev. B 98, 024302 (2018) >
Preprints
Coherent fluctuation relations: from the abstract to the concrete
Z. Holmes, S. Weidt, D. Jennings, J. Anders, F. Mintert
Cooperative Breakdown of the Oscillator Blockade in the Dicke Model
Florentin Reiter, Thanh Long Nguyen, Jonathan P. Home, Susanne F. Yelin
Correcting symmetry imperfections in linear multipole traps
J. Pedregosa-Gutierrez, C. Champenois, M. Houssin, M.R. Kamsap, M. Knoop
Discrete time crystal in globally driven interacting quantum systems without disorder
Wing Chi Yu, Jirawat Tangpanitanon, Alexander W. Glaetzle, Dieter Jaksch, Dimitris G. Angelakis
Encoding a qubit in a trapped-ion mechanical oscillator
Christa Flühmann, Thanh Long Nguyen, Matteo Marinelli, Vlad Negnevitsky, Karan Mehta, Jonathan Home
Energy transfer in elastic collisions between electrons and trapped ions
Łukasz Kłosowski, Mariusz Piwiński
Interferometer with a driven trapped ion
S. Martínez-Garaot, A. Rodriguez-Prieto, J. G. Muga
Motional Fock states for quantum-enhanced amplitude and phase measurements with trapped ions
Fabian Wolf, Chunyan Shi, Jan C. Heip, Manuel Gessner, Luca Pezzè, Augusto Smerzi, Marius Schulte, Klemens Hammerer, Piet O. Schmidt
Photon Recoil Spectroscopy: Systematic Shifts and Nonclassical Enhancements
Marius Schulte, Niels Lörch, Piet O. Schmidt, Klemens Hammerer
Site-resolved imaging of beryllium ion crystals in a high-optical-access Penning trap with inbore optomechanics
Harrison Ball, Christian D. Marciniak, Robert N. Wolf, Alex T. -H. Hung, Karsten Pyka, Michael J. Biercuk
Small & Big (and in between): Ion Traps and Gravitational Waves
P. -M. Zhang, M. Cariglia, C. Duval, M. Elbistan, G. W. Gibbons, P. A. Horvathy
Surface trap with dc-tunable ion-electrode distance
Da An, Clemens Matthiesen, Ahmed Abdelrahman, Maya Berlin-Udi, Dylan Gorman, Sönke Möller, Erik Urban, Hartmut Häffner
Trapped Ion Quantum Information Processing with Squeezed Phonons
Wenchao Ge, Brian Sawyer, Joe Britton, Kurt Jacobs, John Bollinger, Michael Foss-Feig
Trapping and sympathetic cooling of single thorium ions for spectroscopy
Karin Groot-Berning, Felix Stopp, Georg Jacob, Dmitry Budker, Raphael Haas, Dennis Renisch, Jörg Runke, Petra Thörle-Pospiech, Christoph Düllmann, Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler
Verification of a many-ion simulator of the Dicke model through slow quenches across a phase transition
A. Safavi-Naini, R. J. Lewis-Swan, J. G. Bohnet, M. Garttner, K. A. Gilmore, J. E. Jordan, J. Cohn, J. K. Freericks, A. M. Rey, J. J. Bollinger