Dear all,
at the beginning of the month we celebrated Marie Curie’s 150th birthday, with a large echo in the press. But looking around our labs, we still must note that we fail to attract and keep as many highly-motivated young women as men (even though there has been some progress).
If YOU have any bright idea, how to defend gender balance in physics at all levels, and in particular how to increase the number of female ion trappers, we would be happy to share this!
Your editorial team
News
Prize season at the German Physical Society (DPG) !
J. Ignacio Cirac has been honored with the Max-Planck medal 2018 (the highest DPG distinction for theoretical physics), and Gerd Leuchs has been awarded the Herbert-Walther-prize 2018. All details and recipients can be found HERE
Congratulations !
Events
Winter School on Physics with Trapped Charged Particles, Les Houches, France, January 8-19, 2018 LINK
LEAP2018 – Conference on Low Energy Antiproton Physics – hosted at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris France from Mars 12th to 16th, 2018. LINK
Cold and Controlled Molecules and Ions (CCMI), to be held from 25-29 March 2018 at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, USA. LINK
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!!
Jobs
Postdoc position in precision spectroscopy of ions trapped in solids, with Amar Vutha at the University of Toronto. Link
Postdoc openings in NIST Ion Storage group in quantum information processing involving mixed atomic species and new generation surface-electrode traps.. Details can be found HERE
Postdoctoral Research Associate – Experimental Quantum Control with Michael Biercuk, University of Sydney, Australia
Post-doctoral position “Single ion source from laser ionization of cesium atoms” located in Orsay, France LINK
A 4 year PhD student position is opened immediately at LCPM, EPFL, Switzerland (group of Dr. O. Boyarkine). Contact
PhD position “Laser-cooled ion optical clocks for fundamental physics and redefinition of the second” at NPL (Teddington, UK) and University of Oxford. LINK
With the impending arrival of David Wineland from NIST, Boulder, onto our faculty, the Center for Optical, Molecular and Quantum Science, and the Department of Physics at the University of Oregon are currently running a search for an additional AMO experimentalist in the area of Quantum Information Physics. The current search is open to all levels, and we are particularly interested in the area of trapped ions and neutrals, and closely allied fields.
Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Quantum Information Physics
University of Oregon, Application review will begin on November 15, 2017; position open until filled 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
Accurate determination of black-body radiation shift, magic and tune-out wavelengths for the 6S1/2 $ \rightarrow $ 5D3/2 clock transition in Yb+
A Roy, S De, Bindiya Arora and B K Sahoo
2017 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 50 205201
Cavity-enhanced photoionization of an ultracold rubidium beam for application in focused ion beams
G. ten Haaf, S. H. W. Wouters, P. H. A. Mutsaers, and E. J. D. Vredenbregt
Phys. Rev. A 96, 053412 (2017)
Cross-Kerr Nonlinearity for Phonon Counting
Shiqian Ding, Gleb Maslennikov, Roland Hablützel, and Dzmitry Matsukevich
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 193602 (2017)
Dissipation in adiabatic quantum computers: lessons from an exactly solvable model
Maximilian Keck, Simone Montangero, Giuseppe E Santoro, Rosario Fazio and Davide Rossini
2017 New J. Phys. 19 113029
Doppler cooling thermometry of a multi-level ion in the presence of micromotion.
Tomas Sikorsky, Ziv Meir, Nitzan Akerman, Ruti Ben-shlomi, Roee Ozeri
Phys. Rev. A. 96:012519 (2017).
Double-trap measurement of the proton magnetic moment at 0.3 parts per billion precision
Georg Schneider, Andreas Mooser, Matthew Bohman, Natalie Schön, James Harrington, Takashi Higuchi, Hiroki Nagahama, Stefan Sellner, Christian Smorra, Klaus Blaum, Yasuyuki Matsuda, Wolfgang Quint, Jochen Walz, Stefan Ulmer
Science 24 Nov 2017: Vol. 358, Issue 6366, pp. 1081-1084
Doubly resonant photoionization of He below the N = 2 ionization threshold
Andrej Mihelič, Matjaž Žitnik and Mateja Hrast
2017 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 50 245602
High-accuracy calculations of the rotation-vibration spectrum of ${{\rm{H}}}_{3}^{+}$
Jonathan Tennyson, Oleg L Polyansky, Nikolai F Zobov, Alexander Alijah and Attila G Császár
2017 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 50 232001
Ions captured in the spotlight
Dietrich Leibfried
Nature Photonics 11, 688–690
Laser cooling and imaging of individual radioactive 90Sr+ ions
Kyunghun Jung, Yoshihiro Iwata, Masabumi Miyabe, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Tomohisa Yonezu, Ikuo Wakaida, and Shuichi Hasegawa
Phys. Rev. A 96, 043424 (2017)
Long lifetimes and effective isolation of ions in optical and electrostatic traps
Alexander Lambrecht, Julian Schmidt, Pascal Weckesser, Markus Debatin, Leon Karpa & Tobias Schaetz
Nature Photonics 11, 704–707 (2017)
Nailing down the proton magnetic moment
Jelena Stajic
Science 24 Nov 2017: Vol. 358, Issue 6366, pp. 1015-1016
Precision measurement of the 25Mg+ground-state hyperfine constant
Z. T. Xu, K. Deng, H. Che, W. H. Yuan, J. Zhang, and Z. H. Lu
Phys. Rev. A 96, 052507 (2017)
Quantum lock-in force sensing using optical clock Doppler velocimetry.
Shaniv, R; Ozeri, R (2017).
Nature Communications. 8:14157.
Single-shot energy measurement of a single atom and the direct reconstruction of its energy distribution.
Meir, Z; Sikorsky, T; Akerman, N; Ben-shlomi, R; Pinkas, M; Ozeri, R (2017).
Physical Review A. 96:020701(R).
Solvable Family of Driven-Dissipative Many-Body Systems
Michael Foss-Feig, Jeremy T. Young, Victor V. Albert, Alexey V. Gorshkov, and Mohammad F. Maghrebi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 190402 (2017)
Squeezed Coherent States of Motion for Ions Confined in Quadrupole and Octupole Ion Traps
Bogdan M. Mihalcea
Annals of Physics 388 (1), p. 100-113 (2018)
Time crystals: a review
Krzysztof Sacha and Jakub Zakrzewski
2018 Rep. Prog. Phys. 81 016401
Topological Edge States in Periodically Driven Trapped-Ion Chains
Pedro Nevado, Samuel Fernández-Lorenzo, and Diego Porras
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 210401 (2017)
Preprints
High Fidelity Quantum Gates beyond spectral selection
Kwok Chung Matthew Cheung, Florian Mintert
How much can we cool a quantum oscillator? A useful analogy to understand laser cooling as a thermodynamical process
Nahuel Freitas, Juan Pablo Paz
Markovian heat sources with the smallest heat capacity
Raam Uzdin, Simone Gasparinetti, Roee Ozeri, Ronnie Kosloff
Observation of Hopping and Blockade of Bosons in a Trapped Ion Spin Chain
S. Debnath, N. M. Linke, S.-T. Wang, C. Figgatt, K. A. Landsman, L.-M. Duan, C. Monroe
Operational effects of the UNOT gate on classical and quantum correlations
Kuan Zhang, Jiajun Ma, Xiang Zhang, Jayne Thompson, Vlatko Vedral, Kihwan Kim, Mile Gu
Probing new light force-mediators by isotope shift spectroscopy.
Berengut J. C.; Budker D.; Delaunay C.; Flambaum V. V.; Frugiuele C.; Fuchs E.; Grojean C.; Harnik R.; Ozeri R.; Perez G.; Soreq Y.
Quantum simulation of the quantum Rabi model in a trapped ion
Dingshun Lv, Shuoming An, Zhenyu Liu, Jing-Ning Zhang, Julen S. Pedernales, Lucas Lamata, Enrique Solano, Kihwan Kim
Scaling Trapped Ion Quantum Computers Using Fast Gates and Microtraps
Alexander K. Ratcliffe, Richard L. Taylor, André R. R. Carvalho, Joseph J. Hope
Spectroscopy of the 2S1/2→2P3/2 transition in Yb II: Isotope shifts, hyperfine splitting and branching ratios
Thomas Feldker, Henning Fürst, Norman Ewald, Jannis Joger, Rene Gerritsma
Spin controlled atom-ion inelastic collisions.
Tomas Sikorsky, Ziv Meir, Ruti Ben-shlomi, Nitzan Akerman, Roee Ozeri
Trapped-ion quantum simulation of excitation transport: disordered, noisy, and long-range connected quantum networks
Nils Trautmann, Philipp Hauke
Visible transitions in Ag-like and Cd-like lanthanide ions
Shunichi Murata, Takayuki Nakajima, Marianna S. Safronova, Ulyana I. Safronova, Nobuyuki Nakamura