Dear all,

last month we have asked for your feedback about the means of distribution of this newsletter. Quite a few of you have answered, many of them during the first night after the newsletter was sent. To our big surprise, almost everybody preferred to keep the email format, with the exception of one vote for Facebook and one for Twitter. So, nothing will change!
And thanks for all the nice messages that you have sent along – very encouraging !

Your editorial team
Martina and Alejandro

News


Too much publicity for the Winter School in Les Houches, and due to limited space we could only admit 65 out of 90 applicants. There is clearly a large demand for schools (and maybe for skiing), and we are thinking about the next move!

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

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

 

Postdoctoral Research Associate – Experimental Quantum Control  with Michael Biercuk, University of Sydney, Australia

Post-doctoral position in optical frequency metrology – characterization of the ultra-stable REFIMEVE+ fiber link, Institut FEMTO-ST, Besançon, details can be found at http://teams.femto-st.fr/equipe-ohms/open-positions

 

PhD position “Laser-cooled ion optical clocks for fundamental physics and redefinition of the second” at NPL (Teddington, UK) and University of Oxford. LINK

 

University of Nottingham is seeking experimental physicists with interests in cold atoms and ions, quantum optics, (… and many more) for positions from assistant to full professor. 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

A parts-per-billion measurement of the antiproton magnetic moment 
C. Smorra, S. Sellner, M. J. Borchert, J. A. Harrington, T. Higuchi, H. Nagahama, T. Tanaka, A. Mooser, G. Schneider, M. Bohman, K. Blaum, Y. Matsuda, C. Ospelkaus, W. Quint, J. Walz, Y. Yamazaki, and S. Ulmer
Nature 550, 371–374 (19 October 2017)
Estimation of gradients in quantum metrology
Sanah Altenburg, Michał Oszmaniec, Sabine Wölk, and Otfried Gühne
Phys. Rev. A 96, 042319 (2017)

Fault tolerance with bare ancillary qubits for a [[7,1,3]] code
Muyuan Li, Mauricio Gutiérrez, Stanley E. David, Alonzo Hernandez, and Kenneth R. Brown
Phys. Rev. A 96, 032341 (2017)

Fast Quantum State Transfer and Entanglement Renormalization Using Long-Range Interactions
Zachary Eldredge, Zhe-Xuan Gong, Jeremy T. Young, Ali Hamed Moosavian, Michael Foss-Feig, and Alexey V. Gorshkov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 170503 (2017)

Fault-tolerant quantum error detection
Norbert M. Linke, Mauricio Gutierrez, Kevin A. Landsman, Caroline Figgatt, Shantanu Debnath, Kenneth R. Brown and Christopher Monroe,
Science Advances 20 Oct 2017:Vol. 3, no. 10, e1701074

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)

Fidelity susceptibility study of quantum long-range antiferromagnetic Ising chain
Gaoyong Sun
Phys. Rev. A 96, 043621 (2017)

Magic wavelengths of the Ca+ ion for circularly polarized light
Jun Jiang, Li Jiang, Xia Wang, Deng-Hong Zhang, Lu-You Xie, and Chen-Zhong Dong
Phys. Rev. A 96, 042503 (2017)

Precision Measurement of the Electron’s Electric Dipole Moment Using Trapped Molecular Ions
William B. Cairncross, Daniel N. Gresh, Matt Grau, Kevin C. Cossel, Tanya S. Roussy, Yiqi Ni, Yan Zhou, Jun Ye, and Eric A. Cornell
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 153001 (2017)

Quantum entanglement in strong-field ionization
Szilárd Majorosi, Mihály G. Benedict, and Attila Czirják
Phys. Rev. A 96, 043412 (2017)

Quantum Parametric Oscillator with Trapped Ions
Shiqian Ding, Gleb Maslennikov, Roland Hablützel, Huanqian Loh, and Dzmitry Matsukevich
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 150404 (2017)

Quantum Sensors for the Generating Functional of Interacting Quantum Field Theories
A. Bermudez, G. Aarts, and M. Müller
Phys. Rev. X 7, 041012 (2017)

Revealing Quantum Statistics with a Pair of Distant Atoms
C. F. Roos, A. Alberti, D. Meschede, P. Hauke, and H. Häffner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 160401 (2017)

Scalable Creation of Long-Lived Multipartite Entanglement
H. Kaufmann, T. Ruster, C. T. Schmiegelow, M. A. Luda, V. Kaushal, J. Schulz, D. von Lindenfels, F. Schmidt-Kaler, and U. G. Poschinger
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 150503 (2017)

Spectroscopy and Directed Transport of Topological Solitons in Crystals of Trapped Ions
J. Brox, P. Kiefer, M. Bujak, T. Schaetz, and H. Landa
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 153602 (2017)

Trial wave functions for ring-trapped ions and neutral atoms: Microscopic description of the quantum space-time crystal
Constantine Yannouleas and Uzi Landman
Phys. Rev. A 96, 043610 (2017)

U(1) Wilson lattice gauge theories in digital quantum simulators
Christine Muschik, Markus Heyl, Esteban Martinez, Thomas Monz, Philipp Schindler, Berit Vogell, Marcello Dalmonte, Philipp Hauke, Rainer Blatt and Peter Zoller
New Journal of Physics, Volume 19, October 2017

What Randomized Benchmarking Actually Measures
Timothy Proctor, Kenneth Rudinger, Kevin Young, Mohan Sarovar, and Robin Blume-Kohout
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 130502 (2017)

Preprints

 

A short response-time atomic source for trapped ion experiments
Timothy G. Ballance, Joseph F. Goodwin, Bethan Nichol, Laurent J. Stephenson, Christopher J. Ballance, David M. Lucas

Accurate frequency determination of vibration-rotation and rotational transitions of SiH+
José L. Doménech, Stephan Schlemmer, Oskar Asvany

High-fidelity entanglement between a trapped ion and a telecom photon via quantum frequency conversion
Matthias Bock, Pascal Eich, Stephan Kucera, Matthias Kreis, Andreas Lenhard, Christoph Becher, Jürgen Eschner

IP determination and 1+1 REMPI spectrum of SiO at 210-220 nm with implications for SiO+ ion trap loading
Patrick R. Stollenwerk, Ivan O. Antonov, Brian C. Odom

Optical Frequency Trapped Ion Probe for a Varying Proton-to-Electron Mass Ratio
Mark G. Kokish, Patrick R. Stollenwerk, Masatoshi Kajita, Brian C. Odom

Photoionisation of Ca+ ions in the valence-energy region 20∼eV~–~56∼eV : experiment and theory
A Mueller, S Schippers, R A Phaneuf, A M Covington, A Aguilar, G Hinojosa, J Bozek, M M Sant’Anna, A S Schlachter, C Cisneros, B M McLaughlin

Programmable and scalable radio-frequency pulse sequence generator for multi-qubit quantum information experiments
Ben Keitch, Vlad Negnevitsky, Weida Zhang

Radio-frequency sideband cooling and sympathetic cooling of trapped ions in a static magnetic field gradient
Theeraphot Sriarunothai, Gouri Shankar Giri, Sabine Wölk, Christof Wunderlich

Search for New Physics with Atoms and Molecules,
M.S. Safronova, D. Budker, D. DeMille, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, A. Derevianko, C. W. Clark

Sequential modular position and momentum measurements of a trapped ion mechanical oscillator
C. Flühmann, V. Negnevitsky, M. Marinelli, J. P. Home

Simulating the performance of a distance-3 surface code in a linear ion trap
Colin J. Trout, Muyuan Li, Mauricio Gutierrez, Yukai Wu, Sheng-Tao Wang, Luming Duan, Kenneth R Brown