TIPICQA - COST Action CA17113
Trapped Ions: Progress in Classical and Quantum Applications
The Project
In recent years, ion traps have developed from a topic of fundamental research into a versatile tool for a wide range of research topics and quantum technologies. With the ability to isolate the ions from their environment, atomic and molecular ions can now be studied in unparalleled detail.
Trapped ions are currently the most promising implementation of quantum information processing devices, where many essential building blocks have been developed in recent years. Moreover, magnetic field sensing with high sensitivity has been demonstrated and some of today’s best atomic clocks are based on atomic ions. These applications have the potential to revolutionise many aspects of our daily life. The aim of CA17113 is to enhance the current applications of trapped ions by supporting Europe-wide collaborations and knowledge exchange, and to allow these technologies to be taken a step further towards their commercialisation.
Project Details
Background
Ion trapping has many applications across science and technology. Along with steady progress in high precision mass spectrometry – well developed and widely…
Objectives
This COST Action will strengthen the leading role of Europe in the field of ion trap related science and technologies by organising a Europe-wide…
Scientific Programme
Main aims of the Action are to provide a platform to develop new tools, technologies, and ideas for classical and quantum technologies with trapped ions…
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It's truly laudable, @Ion_busters, to normalize that even will all precaution
1. lab accidents happen;
2. it's ok for things to get broken;
3. if everyone's safe, all will be ok.
How to make PIs/trainees ok with the notion that these things have to be reported+discussed??? https://twitter.com/Ion_busters/status/1309501777960603654
@boundstate @Liv_Lanes @wavicle @anuragsaharoy Intentional. Trying to make a point that breaking something /having a leak/ fire in a lab happens to everyone.
It's always a great question to ask experimentalist "what's the biggest disaster you've had in the lab?" and the replies are always excellent.
The @bacon-@PeterShor1 code project has been a great collaboration with Chris Monroe's group @JQInews and my group @DukeEngineering @DukePhysics @GTCSE. It is an amazing experiment with excellent control over 13 ions in a chain of 15 ions. Here is a thread about the theory. 1/n https://twitter.com/dajmeyer/status/1309359271612571649
Egan, @DriptoDebroy, Noel, Risinger, Zhu, Biswas, Newman, Li, @kenbrownquantum, Cetina & Monroe, Fault-Tolerant Operation of a Quantum Error-Correction Code https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11482
"we experimentally demonstrate...a logical qubit encoded in the 9-qubit @dabacon-@PeterShor1 code"
@MJBiercuk @Ion_busters @JQInews @crystalMIT13 What is next?
Improve two-qubit gates so measuring stabilizers helps for small codes (see requirements here https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08495 ).
Logical CNOT.
Implement intermediate measurements (see e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09703)
Increase the number of ions to use larger distance codes.
