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Events

CPEM, 10-15 July, Ottawa, Canada LINK

 

European Conference on Trapped Ions, Aug 29 -Sept 2, 2016, Arosa, CH, Registration now open !! LINK

 

ECAMP, 5-9 September 2016, Frankfurt, D LINK

 

International School of Physics “Enrico Fermi”, summer courses 2016 LINK

Jobs

 

Postdoc and PhD positions in Innsbruck  LINK

 

Post Doc position, CNRS – Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, FRANCE Link

 

Assistant professor “Theory of Quantum Chaos with Bose Einstein Condensates”, Lille, France  LINK

 

Research Fellow in many-body theory, University of Nottingham, UK  LINK

 

Postdoc : Innovative low noise high power lasers, LP2N, Bordeaux, France LINK

 

In France different permanent positions are announced, and there are published on the website of the ministry. Link

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

Analysis of the competition between forbidden and hyperfine-induced transitions in Ne-like ions
Martin Andersson, Jon Grumer, Tomas Brage, Yaming Zou, and Roger Hutton
Phys. Rev. A 93, 032506 (2016)

A single-ion trap with minimized ion–environment interactions
P. B. R. Nisbet-Jones , S. A. King, J. M. Jones, R. M. Godun, C. F. A. Baynham, K. Bongs, M. Doležal, P. Balling, P. Gill
Appl. Phys. B (2016) 122:57

Dual trapped-ion quantum simulators: an alternative route towards exotic quantum magnets
Tobias Graß, Maciej Lewenstein and Alejandro Bermudez
New J. Phys. 18 (2016) 033011

Evolution of a hybrid micro–macro entangled state of the qubit–oscillator system via the generalized rotating wave approximation
R Chakrabarti and V Yogesh
J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 49, 075502 (2016)

g Factor of Light Ions for an Improved Determination of the Fine-Structure Constant
V. A. Yerokhin, E. Berseneva, Z. Harman, I. I. Tupitsyn, and C. H. Keitel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 100801 (2016)

Loss of wave-packet coherence in ion-atom collisions
L. Sarkadi, I. Fabre, F. Navarrete, and R. O. Barrachina
Phys. Rev. A 93, 032702 (2016)

Multipole electrodynamic ion trap geometries for microparticle confinement under standard ambient temperature and pressure conditions
Bogdan M. Mihalcea, Liviu C. Giurgiu, Cristina Stan, Gina T. Vişan, Mihai Ganciu, Vladimir Filinov, Dmitry Lapitsky, Lidiya Deputatova and Roman Syrovatka
J. Appl. Phys. 119, 114303 (2016)

Photodissociation of an Internally Cold Beam of CH+ Ions in a Cryogenic Storage Ring
A. P. O’Connor et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 113002 (2016)

Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Ions: Study of the Auger Decay of the 4d→nf (n=4,5) Resonances in Xe5+ Ion
J.-M. Bizau, D. Cubaynes, S. Guilbaud, F. Penent, P. Lablanquie, L. Andric, J. Palaudoux, M. M. Al Shorman, and C. Blancard
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 103001 (2016)

Photoionization of tungsten ions: experiment and theory for $W^{2+}$ and $W^{3+}$
B M McLaughlin, C P Ballance, S Schippers, J Hellhund, A L D Kilcoyne, R A Phaneuf and A Müller
J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 49 (2016) 065201

Practical Entanglement Estimation for Spin-System Quantum Simulators
O. Marty, M. Cramer, and M. B. Plenio
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 105301 (2016)

Precision spectroscopy of the hydrogen molecular ion D2+
Pei-Pei Zhang, Zhen-Xiang Zhong, Zong-Chao Yan, and Ting-Yun Shi
Phys. Rev. A 93, 032507 (2016)

Realization of a scalable Shor algorithm
T. Monz, D. Nigg, E. A. Martinez, M. F. Brandl, P. Schindler, R. Rines, S.X. Wang, I.L. Chuang, and R. Blatt
Science 351, Issue 6277, pp. 1068-1070 (2016)

Real-Time Dynamics in U(1) Lattice Gauge Theories with Tensor Networks
T. Pichler, M. Dalmonte, E. Rico, P. Zoller, and S. Montangero
Phys. Rev. X 6, 011023 (2016)

Reducing quantum overhead
Ian S. Osborne
Science 351, Issue 6277, pp. 1038-1040 (2016)

Refocusing two-qubit-gate noise for trapped ions by composite pulses
I. Cohen, A. Rotem, and A. Retzker
Phys. Rev. A 93, 032340 (2016)

Relativistic correlation effects on the x-ray spectra of Li-like ions
L. Natarajan
Phys. Rev. A 93, 032516 (2016)

Understanding analog quantum simulation dynamics in coupled ion-trap qubits
Yang-Le Wu and S. Das Sarma
Phys. Rev. A 93, 022332 (2016)

Preprints

3D Sisyphus Cooling of Trapped Ions
S. Ejtemaee, P. C. Haljan

Absolute Te$_2$ reference for barium ion at $455.4~$nm
T. Dutta, D. De Munshi, M. Mukherjee

Active Stabilization of Ion Trap Radiofrequency Potentials
K. G. Johnson, J. D. Wong-Campos, A. Restelli, K. A. Landsman, B. Neyenhuis, J. Mizrahi, C. Monroe

Autonomous quantum thermal machines in atom-cavity systems
Mark T. Mitchison, Marcus Huber, Javier Prior, Mischa P. Woods, Martin B. Plenio

Basic circuit compilation techniques for an ion-trap quantum machine
Dmitri Maslov

Compact Yb$^+$ optical atomic clock project: design principle and current status
Clément Lacroûte, Maël Souidi, Pierre-Yves Bourgeois, Jacques Millo, Khaldoun Saleh, Emmanuel Bigler, Rodolphe Boudot, Vincent Giordano, Yann Kersalé

Comparative numerical studies of ion traps with integrated optical cavities
Nina Podoliak, Hiroki Takahashi, Matthias Keller, Peter Horak

Continuous variables quantum computation over the vibrational modes of a single trapped ion
Luis Ortiz-Gutiérrez, Bruna Gabrielly, Luis F. Muñoz, Kainã T. Pereira, Jefferson G. Filgueiras, Alessandro S. Villar

Demonstration of a programmable quantum computer module
S. Debnath, N. M. Linke, C. Figgatt, K. A. Landsman, K. Wright, C. Monroe

Dynamics of a ground-state cooled ion colliding with ultra-cold atoms
Ziv Meir, Tomas Sikorsky, Ruti Ben-shlomi, Nitzan Akerman, Yehonatan Dallal, Roee Ozeri

EIT ground-state cooling of long ion strings
R. Lechner, C. Maier, C. Hempel, P. Jurcevic, B. P. Lanyon, T. Monz, M. Brownnutt, R. Blatt, C. F. Roos

High-Fidelity Universal Gate Set for $^9$Be$^+$ Ion Qubits
J. P. Gaebler, T. R. Tan, Y. Lin, Y. Wan, R. Bowler, A. C. Keith, S. Glancy, K. Coakley, E. Knill, D. Leibfried, D. J. Wineland

Implementation of Chiral Quantum Optics with Rydberg and Trapped-ion Setups
Benoît Vermersch, Tomás Ramos, Philipp Hauke, Peter Zoller

Iterative Phase Optimisation of Elementary Quantum Error Correcting Codes
M. Müller, A. Rivas, E. A. Martínez, D. Nigg, P. Schindler, T. Monz, R. Blatt, M. A. Martin-Delgado

Preparation of entangled states through Hilbert space engineering
Y. Lin, J. P. Gaebler, F. Reiter, T. R. Tan, R. Bowler, Y. Wan, A. Keith, E. Knill, S. Glancy, K. Coakley, A. S. Sørensen, D. Leibfried, D. J. Wineland

Production of NaCa$^+$ molecular ions in the ground state from cold atom-ion mixtures by photoassociation via an intermediate state
Marko Gacesa, John A. Montgomery Jr., H. Harvey Michels, Robin Côté

Programmable atom-photon quantum interface
Christoph Kurz, Pascal Eich, Michael Schug, Philipp Müller, Jürgen Eschner

Trapped-ion quantum logic with global radiation fields
S. Weidt, J. Randall, S. C. Webster, K. Lake, A. E. Webb, I. Cohen, T. Navickas, B. Lekitsch, A. Retzker, W. K. Hensinger

Transport Implementation of the Bernstein-Vazirani Algorithm with Ion Qubits
Spencer Fallek, Creston Herold, Brian McMahon, Kara Maller, Kenneth Brown, Jason Amini