Dear all,
last week we had a perfect ECTI in a wonderful location with an exciting program – the Ion Trapper’s highlight of the year. For all participants, and those who could not come, have a look at the Photo Gallery !
The new COST Action is gaining momentum, and the first call for collaboration visits is now open (see below). These STSMs are an important tool for networking and we have a non-negligible budget to spent before the end of April 2019. We encourage you therefore to candidate as soon as possible. The next budget year (starting 1 May 2019) will – of course – contain a similar call.
Also, please save the date for the scientific kick-off 6-8 March 2019 in Granada/Spain. More information soon to come !
Best regards,
your editorial team
News
The call for Short Term Scientific Missions is OPEN. This important tool of networking will financially support collaboration visits between 5 days and 3 months. It is open to all researchers from participating countries with a priority for younger researchers. Full details about applications are given on this website and in the STSM user guide.
Please submit your project at https://e-services.cost.eu/stsm and choose COST Action CA17133 – Trapped Ions: progress in classical and quantum applications.
The first collection date will be 10 December 2018. If you have further question please contact the STSM chair Łukasz Kłosowski or the Action chair Markus Hennrich
Events
687th WE-Heraeus-Seminar on ‘Scalable Hardware Platforms for Quantum Computing’ – 13 Jan. – 17 Jan., 2019, Bad Honnef, Germany LINK
EQTC 2019, the first international conference of the European Quantum Flagship on February 18-22, 2019 in Grenoble, France. Details
Bad Honnef Physics School on Strongly Coupled Systems 31 March – 5 April 2019 in Bad Honnef , Germany LINK
Faraday Discussion “ Advances in Ion Spectroscopy – From Astrophysics to Biology” which will take place between 8-10 April 2019 in York, UK. LINK
13th European Conference on Atoms Molecules and Photons (ECAMP13) in Florence, Italy, April 8-12, 2019 LINK
Workshop on “Engineering a Scalable Quantum Information Processor”, Bad Honnef/Germany, 23-26 April 2019. LINK
PLATAN International Conference, Merger of the Poznan meeting on Lasers and Trapping Devices in Atomic nuclei Research and the International Conference on Laser Probing, Mainz/Germany 19-24 May 2019 LINK
Workshop on “Compound (atomic) quantum systems”, Lorentz Center, Leiden/NL, 20 – 24 May 2019 LINK
ICPEAC XXXI , Deauville/France, 23-30 July 2019 LINK
Electrostatic Storage Devices (ESD8) conference to be held in Tinajin, P.R. China August 25 to 30, 2019. Details
Jobs
Postdoc and PhD opportunities in the areas of “Advanced Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions” (EU QT Flagship project) and of “Open Quantum Neural Networks: From Fundamental Concepts to Implementations with Atoms and Photons” (ERC StG) in the Müller group at Swansea University. For details contact M. Müller.
Department of Physics at Durham University seeks to appoint an outstanding individual to the role of Assistant Professor in Quantum Light & Matter.LINK
Junior Group Leader Position in Theoretical Quantum Physics at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) Innsbruck LINK
The Physics of Information and Quantum Technologies Group, at Instituto de Telecomunicacoes (in Lisbon, Portugal), is opening a 6-years Researcher position, available to start in March 2019 (earlier also possible).
A five-year assistant professor (non-tenured) position is open at Department of Physics, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan. Successful candidates will work on experimental studies of gas-phase atomic and molecular physics in the research group of Prof. Yuji Nakano from April 2019. LINK or contact Prof. Nakano
2 professor positions at the University of Sherbrooke in the domain of quantum physics. LINK
PhD position at the QUEST Institute for Experimental Quantum Metrology at PTB. The PhD student will join the team performing quantum logic spectroscopy on highly charged ions, and will take a lead role in developing parts of the next-generation apparatus. For details, please contact Steven King or LINK
PhD position at LKB, Paris on high precision spectroscopy of hydrogen. For details please contact François Nez
Lecturer in Physics in the School of Physical Sciences at The Open University 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
Atomic clocks and time keeping in Romania
Cipriana Tomescu, Liviu Giurgiu
Rom. Rep. Phys. 70, 205 (2018)
Bloch-like energy oscillations
Axel Gagge and Jonas Larson
Phys. Rev. A 98, 053820 (2018)
Collisional cooling of internal rotation in MgH+ions trapped with He atoms: Quantum modeling meets experiments in Coulomb crystals
L. González-Sánchez, R. Wester, and F. A. Gianturco
Phys. Rev. A 98, 053423 (2018)
Direct measurement of Bacon-Shor code stabilizers
Muyuan Li, Daniel Miller, and Kenneth R. Brown
Phys. Rev. A 98, 050301(R) (2018)
Europe shows first cards in €1-billion quantum bet
Davide Castelvecchi
Nature 563,14 (2018)
Estimation of the ion-trap assisted electrical loads and resulting BBR shift
Lakhi Sharma, A. Roy, S. Panja, V. N. Ojha & S. De
Scientific Reports, Volume 8, Article number: 16884 (2018)
High-order harmonic generation of the heteronuclear hydrogen molecular ion in strong infrared laser fields
Yu-Ning Yang, Liang Xu, and Feng He
Phys. Rev. A 98, 053409 (2018)
Measuring the Rényi entropy of a two-site Fermi-Hubbard model on a trapped ion quantum computer
N. M. Linke, S. Johri, C. Figgatt, K. A. Landsman, A. Y. Matsuura, and C. Monroe
Phys. Rev. A 98, 052334 (2018)
Observation of Rydberg Blockade Induced by a Single Ion
F. Engel, T. Dieterle, T. Schmid, C. Tomschitz, C. Veit, N. Zuber, R. Löw, T. Pfau, and F. Meinert
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 193401 (2018)
Phase Locking between Different Partial Waves in Atom-Ion Spin-Exchange Collisions
Tomas Sikorsky, Masato Morita, Ziv Meir, Alexei A. Buchachenko, Ruti Ben-shlomi, Nitzan Akerman, Edvardas Narevicius, Timur V. Tscherbul, and Roee Ozeri
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 173402 (2018)
Precision enhancement in trapped ion rotation sensors
Guolong Li, Bo Liu, Xiao Xiao and Xiaoguang Wang
2018 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 51 235501
Precision measurement of the light shift of 25Mg+ions
W. H. Yuan, K. Deng, Z. Y. Ma, H. Che, Z. T. Xu, H. L. Liu, J. Zhang, and Z. H. Lu
Phys. Rev. A 98, 052507 (2018)
Probing the limits of correlations in an indivisible quantum system
M. Malinowski, C. Zhang, F. M. Leupold, A. Cabello, J. Alonso, and J. P. Home
Phys. Rev. A 98, 050102(R) (2018)
Quantum autoencoders via quantum adders with genetic algorithms
L Lamata, U Alvarez-Rodriguez, J D Martín-Guerrero, M Sanz and E Solano
2019 Quantum Sci. Technol. 4 014007
Realizing an adiabatic quantum search algorithm with shortcuts to adiabaticity in an ion-trap system
Jie Zhang, Feng-guang Li, Yi Xie, Chun-wang Wu, Bao-quan Ou, Wei Wu, and Ping-xing Chen
Phys. Rev. A 98, 052323 (2018)
Reduced theoretical error for 4He+ spectroscopy
C. P. Burgess, P. Hayman, Markus Rummel, and László Zalavári
Phys. Rev. A 98, 052510 (2018)
Repeated multi-qubit readout and feedback with a mixed-species trapped-ion register
V. Negnevitsky, M. Marinelli, K. K. Mehta, H.-Y. Lo, C. Flühmann & J. P. Home
Nature volume 563, pages 527–531 (2018)
Resilient Entangling Gates for Trapped Ions
A. E. Webb, S. C. Webster, S. Collingbourne, D. Bretaud, A. M. Lawrence, S. Weidt, F. Mintert, and W. K. Hensinger
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 180501 (2018)
Robust Entanglement Gates for Trapped-Ion Qubits
Yotam Shapira, Ravid Shaniv, Tom Manovitz, Nitzan Akerman, and Roee Ozeri
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 180502 (2018)
Strategies for quantum computing molecular energies using the unitary coupled cluster ansatz
Jonathan Romero, Ryan Babbush, Jarrod R McClean, Cornelius Hempel, Peter J Love and Alán Aspuru-Guzik
2019 Quantum Sci. Technol. 4 014008
Preprints
Atomic Bell measurement via two-photon interactions
Carlos A. González-Gutiérrez, Juan Mauricio Torres
Coherently displaced oscillator quantum states of a single trapped atom
Katherine C. McCormick, Jonas Keller, David J. Wineland, Andrew C. Wilson, Dietrich Leibfried
Compact laser system for a laser-cooled ytterbium ion microwave frequency standard
S. Mulholland, H. A. Klein, G. P. Barwood, S. Donnellan, P. B. R. Nisbet-Jones, G. Huang, G. Walsh, P. E. G. Baird, P. Gill
Deterministic generation of arbitrary all-photonic graph states from quantum emitters
Antonio Russo, Edwin Barnes, Sophia E. Economou
Excitation of E1-forbidden Atomic Transitions with Electric, Magnetic or Mixed Multipolarity in Light Fields Carrying Orbital and Spin Angular Momentum
Maria Solyanik-Gorgone, Andrei Afanasev, Carl E. Carlson, Christian T. Schmiegelow, Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler
Experimental demonstration of weak value amplification in trapped ion system
Chun-wang Wu, Jie Zhang, Yi Xie, Bao-quan Ou, Wei Wu, Ping-xing Chen
Ion-based nondestructive sensor for cavity photon numbers
Moonjoo Lee, Konstantin Friebe, Dario A. Fioretto, Klemens Schüppert, Florian R. Ong, David Plankensteiner, Valentin Torggler, Helmut Ritsch, Rainer Blatt, Tracy E. Northup
Isomeric fission yield ratios for odd-mass Cd and In isotopes using the Phase-Imaging Ion-Cyclotron-Resonance technique
V. Rakopoulos, M. Lantz, S. Pomp, A. Solders, A. Al-Adili, L. Canete, T. Eronen, A. Jokinen, A. Kankainen, A. Mattera, I. D. Moore, D. A. Nesterenko, M. Reponen, S. Rinta-Antila, A. de Roubin, M. Vilén, M. Österlund, H. Penttilä
Operation of a Microfabricated Planar Ion-Trap for Studies of a Yb+-Rb Hybrid Quantum System
Abasalt Bahrami, Matthias Müller, Martin Drechsler, Jannis Joger, Rene Gerritsma, Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler
Phase transfer between three visible lasers for coherent population trapping
Mathieu Collombon, Gaetan Hagel, Cyril Chatou, Didier Guyomarch, Didier Ferrand, Marie Houssin, Caroline Champenois, Martina Knoop