ITN Newsletter – December 2021 (with additional job ads) – TIPICQA

ITN Newsletter – December 2021 (with additional job ads)

Due to travel and other restrictions, ECCTI (the Early Career Conference on Trapped Ions) is postponed to 26 June - 1 July 2022 in order to guarantee a face-to-face event. We wish you a fabulous New Year 2022, which will hopefully bring us back to the ground state with a high degree of control of external perturbations. Stay positive, ion trappers !

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December 2021 | News from COST Action CA17113 “Trapped Ions: Progress in classical and quantum applications”

Dear all,

Due to travel and other restrictions, ECCTI (the Early Career Conference on Trapped Ions) is postponed to 26 June – 1 July 2022 in order to guarantee a face-to-face event.

We wish you a fabulous New Year 2022, which will hopefully bring us back to the ground state with a high degree of control of external perturbations. Stay positive, ion trappers !

Your editorial team

News

Short Term Scientific Missions – apply now !!
Mobility for young and not so young researchers, between 1 week and 3 months, the COST Action can financially support your stay. Details can be found on the website at https://www.iontraps.eu/activities/stsm/

Events

Early Career Conference in Trapped Ions 2022, at CERN, Geneva postponed to 26 June-1 July 2022 ! LINK

SOLVAY WORKSHOP ON “Quantum Simulation – 2021” Brussels, February 7 – 9, 2022
The Workshop is organized in the context of the 2021 International Jacques Solvay Chair in Physics attributed to Prof. Jean Dalibard. LINK

XXIIIrd Symposium on Atomic, Cluster and Surface Physics, 13-17 February 2022 in Obergurgl/Austria LINK

“FRIAS Junior Researcher Conference – Cold and ultracold chemistry” in Freiburg, Germany, February 20 – 22, 2022. Details

The second edition of the training school “From Basics to Applications of Optical Fiber Links and Frequency Combs”, from 18 to 22 April, 2022, in the wonderful School of Physics in Les Houches, close to Chamonix, in the French Alps. Details

14th European Conference on Atoms Molecules and Photons (ECAMP14) in Vilnius, Lithuania, June 27- July 1, 2022 LINK

27th International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP) in Toronto, Canada, 17-22 July 2022 LINK

The 8th International Conference on Trapped Charged Particles and Fundamental Physics (TCP 2022) will take place in Glashütten, Germany on September 25-30, 2022. The first circular is available on the website.

25th ICOLS, Estes Park, Colorado/USA, June 2023

Online seminars

Virtual Seminar on Precision Physics and Fundamental Symmetries 2020
an initiative for the precision physics and quantum information community every Thursday LINK

The Virtual AMO Seminar (www.amo-seminar.com): Fridays, 7pm (UTC)

The “Quantum Science Seminar” (http://quantumscienceseminar.com/): Thursdays, 5pm

Jobs

A Postdoc position is available in Bordeaux (France) to develop and use an ultralow noise laser for nanoparticle trapping and cooling. For details please contact Giorgio Santarelli or Adèle Hilico

A Postdoc position is available in the group of Rene Gerritsma in Amsterdam: LINK

PhD vacancies in the Ion Quantum Technology group with Winfried Hensinger. Details

Permanent trapped ion physicist positions are available at the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre, see current vacancies or contact Jochen Wolf for details and speculative applications.

Two Postdoc positions are available at the University of Oxford, one focussing on the development of ion-traps with integrated optics, and one on quantum control and quantum computation with trapped ions. Please contact Chris Ballance for details.

A full-time postdoctoral position in Quantum Technology within the ITCM Group at the University of Sussex, led by Prof Matthias Keller. Details

PhD position on the “Theory of many-body quantum engines” at University of Tübingen. Review of the applications will begin on 31 Jan 2021 until the position is filled. For enquiries please send an email to Prof. Dr. Igor Lesanovsky or Dr. Federico Carollo. Details

We’re looking to fill two postdoctoral positions for our new projects with trapped ion quantum computers (ATIQ project). Please contact Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler () or visit www.quantenbit.physik.uni-mainz.de/.

The Highly Charged Ion Dynamics group (Crespo lab) at the Pfeifer Division of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK) in Heidelberg is seeking a postdoctoral research associate (2 years) starting as soon as possible. LINK

A postdoctoral position is available at the University of Washington in Seattle for the development of architectures supporting large-scale QIP with trapped ions. Contact Sara Mouradian for details.

Postdoctoral Research Associate and PhD positions are available on quantum simulation and sensing with large beryllium ion crystals at the University of Sydney. For details please contact Robert Wolf or LINK

A postdoc position is open at LENS, Florence/IT. Details can be found here, or by contacting Carlo Sias

A PhD position in quantum cellular automata and quantum neural networks at the University of Tübingen (Germany) . Details HERE or contact Igor Lesanowsky

A Postdoctoral Research Position to study positron interactions with atoms and molecules is available in the Physics Department, University of California San Diego positron group (positrons.ucsd.edu). Contact Cliff Surko for details

Several PhD and postdoctoral positions offered for new projects with trapped ion quantum computers (IQuAn), collective properties of light scattering, heat transport in ion crystals (QuCoLiMa) and Rydberg ions. Please contact Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler () or visit www.quantenbit.physik.uni-mainz.de

A PhD position in the group of Rene Gerritsma in Amsterdam. Details

You can also find postdoc positions in frequency metrology, cold atoms and quantum information

Publications

Please sent informations about your publications to

A digital feedback system for advanced ion manipulation techniques in Penning traps
Jost Herkenhoff, Menno Door, Pavel Filianin, Wenjia Huang, Kathrin Kromer, Daniel Lange, Rima X. Schüssler, Christoph Schweiger, Sergey Eliseev and Klaus Blaum
Review of Scientific Instruments 92, 103201 (2021)

A proposed architecture for single-species qubits in trapped-ion systems
Avery Thompson
Scilight 2021, 521104 (2021)

A sub-4 Kelvin radio frequency linear multipole wire trap
Katharina Geistlinger, Moritz Fischer, Steffen Spieler, Lena Remmers, Felix Duensing, Franziska Dahlmann, Eric Endres and Roland Wester
Review of Scientific Instruments 92, 023204 (2021)

A survey on advances of quantum repeater
Pei-Shun Yan, Lan Zhou, Wei Zhong and Yu-Bo Sheng
EPL 136 14001 (2021)

Algorithmic Ground-State Cooling of Weakly Coupled Oscillators Using Quantum Logic
Steven A. King, Lukas J. Spieß, Peter Micke, Alexander Wilzewski, Tobias Leopold, José R. Crespo López-Urrutia, and Piet O. Schmidt
Phys. Rev. X 11, 041049 (2021)

Bound state dynamics in the long-range spin-12 XXZ model
T. Macrì, L. Lepori, G. Pagano, M. Lewenstein, and L. Barbiero
Phys. Rev. B 104, 214309 (2021)

Certifying Multilevel Coherence in the Motional State of a Trapped Ion
Ollie Corfield, Jake Lishman, Chungsun Lee, Jacopo Mosca Toba, George Porter, Johannes M. Heinrich, Simon C. Webster, Florian Mintert, and Richard C. Thompson
PRX Quantum 2, 040359 (2021)

Chaos in the monopole ion trap
Edgar Perez and John Essick
American Journal of Physics 89, 84 (2021)

Design and Fabrication of Silicon Gratings for the Optical Addressing of Trapped Ion Qubits
Lim, Yu Dian; Li, Hong Yu; Zhao, Peng; Tao, Jing; Guidoni, Luca; Tan, Chuan Seng
CLEO: Science and Innovations, Paper# JF2G.3 (2021)

Deuteron-to-Proton Mass Ratio from Simultaneous Measurement of the Cyclotron Frequencies of H+2 and D+
David J. Fink and Edmund G. Myers
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 243001 (2021)

Direct observation of trapped ion micromotion and multi-qubits state with a TimePix3cam single-photon sensitive camera.
Zhukas, Liudmila A.; Millican, Maverick J.; Svihra, Peter; Nomerotski, Andrei; Blinov, Boris B.
CLEO: Applications and Technology, Paper# JF2G.2 (2021)

Evaluating states in trapped ions with local correlation between internal and motional degrees of freedom
Silpa Muralidharan, Ryutaro Ohira, Shota Kume, and Kenji Toyoda
Phys. Rev. A 104, 062410 (2021)

Filtering variational quantum algorithms for combinatorial optimization
David Amaro, Carlo Modica, Matthias Rosenkranz, Mattia Fiorentini, Marcello Benedetti and Michael Lubasch
Quantum Sci. Technol. (2021)

Fluorescence detection of a trapped ion with a monolithically integrated single-photon-counting avalanche diode
W. J. Setzer, M. Ivory, O. Slobodyan, J. W. Van Der Wall, L. P. Parazzoli, D. Stick, M. Gehl, M. G. Blain, R. R. Kay and H. J. McGuinness
Appl. Phys. Lett. 119, 154002 (2021);

Improved Determination of Fundamental Constants and Test of Fundamental Physics with Doppler-Free THz Spectroscopy of HD+
Alighanbari, S.; Giri, G. S.; Constantin, F. L.; Korobov, V.; Schiller, S.
European Quantum Electronics Conference, Paper# ed_1_1 (2021)

Increase of the barium ion-trap lifetime via photodissociation
Hao Wu, Michael Mills, Elizabeth West, Michael C. Heaven, and Eric R. Hudson
Phys. Rev. A 104, 063103 (2021)

Integrated Photonic Circuits and Platform Development for Trapped-Ion Quantum Computing and Sensing
Sorace-Agaskar, Cheryl; Aull, Brian; Braje, Danielle; Bruzewicz, Colin; Callahan, Patrick T.; Chiaverini, John; Ciampi, Joe; Collins, Michael; Donlon, Kevan; Felton, Bradley; Juodawlkis, Paul W.; Kharas, Dave; Loh, William; McConnell, Robert; Morgan, Rachel; Niffenegger, Robert; Purcell-Schuldt, Meghan; Reens, David; Ryu, Kevin; Sage, Jeremy; Stuart, Jules; West, Gavin N.
Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics, Paper# ITh2A.2 (2021)

Integrated Technologies for Portable Optical Clocks
McConnell, Robert; Aull, Brian; Braje, Danielle; Bruzewicz, Colin; Callahan, Patrick; Chiaverini, John; Collins, Michael; Donlon, Kevan; Felton, Bradley; Juodawlkis, Paul; Kharas, David; Loh, William; Niffenegger, Robert; Reens, David; Ryu, Kevin; Sage, Jeremy; Sorace-Agaskar, Cheryl; Stuart, Jules; West, Gavin
Optical Sensors, Paper# SW4I.1 (2021)

Micromotion minimization using Ramsey interferometry
Gerard Higgins, Shalina Salim, Chi Zhang, Harry Parke, Fabian Pokorny and Markus Hennrich
New J. Phys. 23 123028 (2021)

Multimode quantum networking with trapped ions
Krutyanskiy, Victor; Krcmarsky, Vojtech; Canteri, Marco; Meraner, Martin; Schupp, Josef; Lanyon, Ben
European Quantum Electronics Conference, Paper# eb_5_3 V (2021)

Non-destructive detection of large molecules without mass limitation
A. Poindron, J. Pedregosa-Gutierrez, C. Jouvet, M. Knoop and C. Champenois
J. Chem. Phys. 154, 184203 (2021)

Observation of Feshbach resonances between a single ion and ultracold atoms
Pascal Weckesser, Fabian Thielemann, Dariusz Wiater, Agata Wojciechowska, Leon Karpa, Krzysztof Jachymski, Michał Tomza, Thomas Walker & Tobias Schaetz
Nature, 600, 429-433 (2021)

omg blueprint for trapped ion quantum computing with metastable states
D. T. C. Allcock, W. C. Campbell, J. Chiaverini, I. L. Chuang, E. R. Hudson, I. D. Moore, A. Ransford, C. Roman, J. M. Sage and D. J. Wineland
Appl. Phys. Lett. 119, 214002 (2021)

Optimal Frobenius light cone in spin chains with power-law interactions
Chi-Fang Chen and Andrew Lucas
Phys. Rev. A 104, 062420 (2021)

Optimizing Stabilizer Parities for Improved Logical Qubit Memories
Dripto M. Debroy, Laird Egan, Crystal Noel, Andrew Risinger, Daiwei Zhu, Debopriyo Biswas, Marko Cetina, Chris Monroe, and Kenneth R. Brown
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 240501 (2021)

Precision measurements of the 2P1/2−2P3/2 fine-structure splitting in B-like S11+ and Cl12+
X. Liu, X. P. Zhou, W. Q. Wen, Q. F. Lu, C. L. Yan, G. Q. Xu, J. Xiao, A. V. Volotka, Y. S. Kozhedub, M. Y. Kaygorodov, Z. K. Huang, W. L. Ma, S. X. Wang, and X. Ma
Phys. Rev. A 104, 062804 (2021)

Pushing the Limits of Quantum Sensing with Variational Quantum Circuits
Patrick Coles
December 6, 2021• Physics 14, 172

Quantum circuits for the realization of equivalent forms of one-dimensional discrete-time quantum walks on near-term quantum hardware
Shivani Singh, C. Huerta Alderete, Radhakrishnan Balu, Christopher Monroe, Norbert M. Linke, and C. M. Chandrashekar
Phys. Rev. A 104, 062401 (2021)

Quantum amplitude-amplification operators
Hyeokjea Kwon and Joonwoo Bae
Phys. Rev. A 104, 062438 (2021)

Quantum gates robust to secular amplitude drifts
Qile David Su, Robijn Bruinsma, and Wesley C. Campbell
Phys. Rev. A 104, 052625 (2021)

Quantum Variational Optimization of Ramsey Interferometry and Atomic Clocks
Raphael Kaubruegger, Denis V. Vasilyev, Marius Schulte, Klemens Hammerer, and Peter Zoller
Phys. Rev. X 11, 041045 (2021)

Realization of Real-Time Fault-Tolerant Quantum Error Correction
C. Ryan-Anderson, J. G. Bohnet, K. Lee, D. Gresh, A. Hankin, J. P. Gaebler, D. Francois, A. Chernoguzov, D. Lucchetti, N. C. Brown, T. M. Gatterman, S. K. Halit, K. Gilmore, J. A. Gerber, B. Neyenhuis, D. Hayes, and R. P. Stutz
Phys. Rev. X 11, 041058 (2021)

Real-Time Error Correction for Quantum Computing
Philip Ball
Physics 14, 184 (2021)

Sensing a THz Electric Field with Cold and Trapped Molecular Ions
Constantin, F.L.
European Quantum Electronics Conference, Paper# eb_p_21 (2021)

Simulating a measurement-induced phase transition for trapped-ion circuits
Stefanie Czischek, Giacomo Torlai, Sayonee Ray, Rajibul Islam, and Roger G. Melko
Phys. Rev. A 104, 062405 (2021)

Simulation of incoherent ion effects in electron storage rings
J. Calvey and M. Borland
Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 24, 124401 (2021)

Super-resolved Imaging of a Single Cold Atom on a Nanosecond Timescale
Zhong-Hua Qian, Jin-Ming Cui, Xi-Wang Luo, Yong-Xiang Zheng, Yun-Feng Huang, Ming-Zhong Ai, Ran He, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 263603 (2021)

Surface ion trap
Noriaki Horiuchi
Nature Photonics (2021)

Suppression of midcircuit measurement crosstalk errors with micromotion
J. P. Gaebler, C. H. Baldwin, S. A. Moses, J. M. Dreiling, C. Figgatt, M. Foss-Feig, D. Hayes, and J. M. Pino
Phys. Rev. A 104, 062440 (2021)

Tick tock goes the mercury trapped ion clock
Anashe Bandari
Scilight 2021, 311107 (2021)

Trapped Ion Quantum Computing Using Optical Tweezers and Electric Fields
M. Mazzanti, R. X. Schüssler, J. D. Arias Espinoza, Z. Wu, R. Gerritsma, and A. Safavi-Naini
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 260502 (2021)

Trapped ions
Jonas Larson and Themistoklis Mavrogordatos
Pages 4-1 to 4-23
Chapter 4 from The Jaynes–Cummings Model and Its Descendants (2021)

Ultrafast coherent excitation of an ytterbium ion with single laser pulses
Kenji Shimizu, Jordan Scarabel, Elizabeth Bridge, Steven Connell, Moji Ghadimi, Ben Haylock, Mahmood Irtiza Hussain, Erik Streed and Mirko Lobino
Appl. Phys. Lett. 119, 214003 (2021)

Weak dissipation for high-fidelity qubit-state preparation and measurement
Anthony Ransford, Conrad Roman, Thomas Dellaert, Patrick McMillin, and Wesley C. Campbell
Phys. Rev. A 104, L060402 (2021)

Ytterbium ion trap quantum computing: The current state-of-the-art
Gavin N. Nop, Durga Paudyal and Jonathan D. H. Smith
AVS Quantum Sci. 3, 044101 (2021)

Preprints