Dear all,

in continuing the successful Winter School on the Physics with Trapped Charged Particles held in Les Houches (France) in January 2012 and 2015 (lecture notes available) we are happy to announce the third such school to be held this coming January 2018.  The school will take place from January 8-19, 2018 and applications are now open on the school  web-site at http://indico.cern.ch/e/pwtcp2018. Please note that the deadline for applications is September 17th.

Your editorial team

 

News

The deadline for the special issue of the Journal of Modern Optics in memory of Danny Segal has been extended to 30 June 2017. More info

Events

EFTF – IFCS 2017, 9-13 July 2017, Besançon, France Details

 

12th International Workshop on Non-neutral Plasmas to be held 10-13 July 2017 in Appleton, Wisconsin; LINK

 

ColdBeams 2017 – Conference on ultracold ion and electron beams, July 10-12, 2017, Eindhoven, the Netherlands Details

 

49th EGAS at Durham University in the UK, July 17 – 21. LINK

 

International Workshop on  Charge Impurities in Cold Atomic and Molecular Systems, which will be hosted by ITAMP in Cambridge, MA from July 19th to 21st, 2017. LINK

Nordita Workshop on “Topological Phases in Cold Atom Systems” (including trapped ions), July 31 – Aug 18, 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, Details

1st North American Conference on Trapped Ions, August 14-18, 2017, NIST Boulder Campus, Colorado/USA, Registration now OPEN  LINK

Winter School on Physics with Trapped Charged Particles, Les Houches, France, January 8-19, 2018  LINK

 

Jobs

 

PhD position “Precision tests of fundamental symmetry with trapped antihydrogen” in Swansea University LINK

Several positions at the QUEST Institute for Experimental Quantum Metrology, Braunschweig/Hannover LINK

Postdoc and PhD positions on 1S-2S spectroscopy in He+ (Proton Radius Puzzle) in Amsterdam, LaserLaB Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands LINK

Quantum Algorithm Designer: IonQ, Inc. in College Park, Maryland.  Details

1 Post-doc and 4 Ph.D. students on the development of the optical atomic clock mission on the ISS (ISOC), Universität Düsseldorf. Details: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/161562

 

PhD position in optical frequency metrology – developping an ultra-stable cryogenic Fabry-Perot cavities, Institut FEMTO-ST, Besançon, details can be found at http://teams.femto-st.fr/equipe-ohms/open-positions

 

Postdoctoral researcher in the Metrology, Molecules and Fundamental Tests group (Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Université Paris 13) to work on ultrastable frequency transfer with optical fiber links. Details

 

Post-Doc in Paris (LNE-SYRTE/Observatoire de Paris) on Nano-mechanical hybrid quantum systems based on rare-earth doped crystals  Details

 

Post-Doc in Paris (LNE-SYRTE/Observatoire de Paris) on Ultra-stable laser based on spectral-hole burning in rare-earthdoped cristal for application to optical lattice clocks Details

 

Post-doctoral research fellow: At the centre for Quantum Technologies, NUS, Singapore in the group of Manas Mukherjee. Details

 

You can also find postdoc positions in frequency metrologycold atoms and quantum information

 

Publications

Please sent informations about your publications to iontrap.newsletter@gmail.com

 

A compact atomic beam based system for Doppler-free laser spectroscopy of strontium atoms
Gunjan Verma, Chetan Vishwakarma, C. V. Dharmadhikari, and Umakant D. Rapol
Review of Scientific Instruments 88, 033103 (2017)

Entanglement and fluctuations in the XXZ model with power-law interactions
Irénée Frérot, Piero Naldesi, and Tommaso Roscilde
Phys. Rev. B 95, 245111 (2017)

Erratum: Discrete Time Crystals: Rigidity, Criticality, and Realizations [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 030401 (2017)]
N. Y. Yao, A. C. Potter, I.-D. Potirniche, and A. Vishwanath
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 269901 (2017)

Floquet time crystal in the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model
Angelo Russomanno, Fernando Iemini, Marcello Dalmonte, and Rosario Fazio
Phys. Rev. B 95, 214307 (2017)

Frequency measurement of the clock transition of an indium ion sympathetically-cooled in a linear trap
Ohtsubo, Nozomi; Li, Ying; Matsubara, Kensuke; Ido, Tetsuya; Hayasaka, Kazuhiro
Optics Express 25(10) 11725-11735, 2017

Local probe of single phonon dynamics in warm ion crystals
A. Abdelrahman, O. Khosravani, M. Gessner, A. Buchleitner, H. -P. Breuer, D. Gorman, R. Masuda, T. Pruttivarasin, M. Ramm, P. Schindler & H. Häffner
Nature Communications 8, Article number: 15712 (2017)

Multispecies Trapped-Ion Node for Quantum Networking
I. V. Inlek, C. Crocker, M. Lichtman, K. Sosnova, and C. Monroe
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 250502 (2017)

Nonequilibrium quantum thermodynamics in Coulomb crystals
F. Cosco, M. Borrelli, P. Silvi, S. Maniscalco, and G. De Chiara
Phys. Rev. A 95, 063615 (2017)

Nonexponential Decoherence and Subdiffusion in Atom-Optics Kicked Rotor
Sumit Sarkar, Sanku Paul, Chetan Vishwakarma, Sunil Kumar, Gunjan Verma, M. Sainath, Umakant D. Rapol, and M. S. Santhanam
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 174101 (2017)

Optimal joint measurements of complementary observables by a single trapped ion
T P Xiong, L L Yan, Z H Ma, F Zhou, L Chen, W L Yang, M Feng and P Busch
New J. Phys. 19 063032 (2017)

Protected ultrastrong coupling regime of the two-photon quantum Rabi model with trapped ions
Ricardo Puebla, Myung-Joong Hwang, Jorge Casanova, and Martin B. Plenio
Phys. Rev. A 95, 063844 (2017)

Quantum Synchronization Blockade: Energy Quantization Hinders Synchronization of Identical Oscillators
Niels Lörch, Simon E. Nigg, Andreas Nunnenkamp, Rakesh P. Tiwari, and Christoph Bruder
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 243602 (2017)

Single Strontium Rydberg Ion Confined in a Paul Trap
Gerard Higgins, Weibin Li, Fabian Pokorny, Chi Zhang, Florian Kress, Christine Maier, Johannes Haag, Quentin Bodart, Igor Lesanovsky, and Markus Hennrich
Phys. Rev. X 7, 021038 (2017)

Spectral properties of trapped two-level ions interacting with quantized fields
N. Yazdanpanah and M. K. Tavassoly
Phys. Rev. A 95, 063815 (2017)

The shape of spectral lines of two-electron Rydberg atoms/ions: analytical solution
E Oks
J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 50 115001 (2017)

Third-harmonic-generation of a diode laser for quantum control of beryllium ions
Carollo, Ryan A.; Lane, David A.; Kleiner, Edward K.; Kyaw, Phyo Aung; Teng, Chu C.; Ou, Celia Y.; Qiao, Shenglan; Hanneke, David
Optics Express 25, pp. 7220-7229 (2017)

Trapped Ions in Rydberg-Dressed Atomic Gases
T. Secker, N. Ewald, J. Joger, H. Fürst, T. Feldker, and R. Gerritsma
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 263201 (2017)

Overlapping photo-ionized doubly excited resonance series for Li+ ion
T K Fang, X Gao and T N Chang
J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 50 115005 (2017)

UV-sensitive superconducting nanowire single photon detectors for integration in an ion trap
Slichter, D. H.; Verma, V. B.; Leibfried, D.; Mirin, R. P.; Nam, S. W.; Wineland, D. J.
Optics Express 25(8) 8705-8720, 2017

 

Preprints

Dynamical ion transfer between coupled Coulomb crystals in a double well potential
Andrea Klumpp, Alexandra Zampetaki, Peter Schmelcher
Experimental quantum verification in the presence of temporally correlated noise
S. Mavadia, C. L. Edmunds, C. Hempel, H. Ball, F.Roy, T. M. Stace, M. J. Biercuk

Fast and Robust Two-Qubit Gates with Microwave-Driven Trapped Ions
I. Arrazola, J. Casanova, J. S. Pedernales, Z.-Y. Wang, E. Solano, M. B. Plenio

Fast dynamical decoupling of the Molmer-Sorensen entangling gate
Tom Manovitz, Amit Rotem, Ravid Shaniv, Itsik Cohen, Yotam Shapira, Nitzan Akerman, Alex Retzker, Roee Ozeri

High-Fidelity, Single-Shot, Quantum-Logic-Assisted Readout in a Mixed-Species Ion Chain
Colin Bruzewicz, Robert McConnell, Jonathon Sedlacek, Jules Stuart, William Loh, Jeremy Sage, John Chiaverini

Many-body localization dynamics from gauge invariance
Marlon Brenes, Marcello Dalmonte, Markus Heyl, Antonello Scardicchio

Nonequilibrium quantum dynamics of many-body systems
Lea F. Santos, E. Jonathan Torres-Herrera

Reconstruction of the stochastic quantum entropy production to probe irreversibility and correlations
Stefano Gherardini, Matthias M. Müller, Andrea Trombettoni, Stefano Ruffo, Filippo Caruso

Revealing quantum statistics with a pair of distant atoms
C. F. Roos, A. Alberti, D. Meschede, P. Hauke, H. Häffner

Single-atom heat machines enabled by energy quantization
David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, Alexei Bylinskii, Dorian Gangloff, Rajibul Islam, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Vladan Vuletic

Single-shot energy measurement of a single atom and the direct reconstruction of its energy distribution
Ziv Meir, Tomas Sikorsky, Nitzan Akerman, Ruti Ben-shlomi, Meirav Pinkas, Roee Ozeri

Spectroscopy of a synthetic trapped ion qubit
David Hucul, Justin E. Christensen, Eric R. Hudson, Wesley C. Campbell

Sustained state-independent quantum contextual correlations from a single ion
F. M. Leupold, M. Malinowski, C. Zhang, V. Negnevitsky, J. Alonso, A. Cabello, J. P. Home

The collisional frequency shift of a trapped-ion optical clock
Amar C. Vutha, Tom Kirchner, Pierre Dubé

The effect of atomic response time in the theory of Doppler cooling of trapped ions
H. Janacek, A. M. Steane, D. M. Lucas, D. N. Stacey

Topological edge states in periodically-driven trapped-ion chains
Pedro Nevado, Samuel Fernández-Lorenzo, Diego Porras