Graduate Student

Dr. Chung-You (Gilbert) Shih

Position: PhD (2019-23), MSc (2017-19), Research Assistant (Oct 2023 - Jan '24)
Email: c5shih@uwaterloo.ca
Extention: x30172
office: QNC B213
Current Institution: software developer in industry
Previous Institution: U Waterloo (PhD (2019-23), MSc (2017-19)), National Taiwan University (BSc)

Chung-You (Gilbert) did his PhD in the QITI group (2019-23), working on individual optical addressing of trapped ions. Previously, he did his MSc research on holographic beam shaping for quantum simulation in the same group.

Publications

6. [2024] Preserving a qubit during state-destroying operations on an adjacent qubit at a few micrometers distance

Sainath Motlakunta, Nikhil Kotibhaskar, Chung-You Shih, Anthony Vogliano, Darian McLaren, Lewis Hahn, Jingwen Zhu, Roland Hablützel, Rajibul Islam
Nature Communications 15, 6575 (2024)

5. [2024] Programmable XY-type couplings through parallel spin-dependent forces on the same trapped ion motional modes

Nikhil Kotibhaskar, Chung-You Shih, Sainath Motlakunta, Anthony Vogliano, Lewis Hahn, Yu-Ting Chen, Rajibul Islam
Physical Review Research 6, 033038 (2024)

4. [2023] Fast and high-yield fabrication of axially symmetric ion-trap needle electrodes via two step electrochemical etching

Nikhil Kotibhaskar, Noah Greenberg, Sainath Motlakunta, Chung-You Shih, Rajibul Islam
Review of Scientific Instruments 94, 033201 (2023) arXiv:2206.14784

3. [2021] Reprogrammable and high-precision holographic optical addressing of trapped ions for scalable quantum control

Chung-You Shih, Sainath Motlakunta, Nikhil Kotibhaskar, Manas Sajjan, Roland Hablützel, Rajibul Islam
npj Quantum Information 7, 57 (2021)

2. [2019] Holographic Optical Manipulation of Trapped Ions for Quantum Simulation

Chung-You Shih, MSc thesis.
University of Waterloo [Thesis link]

1. [2019] Dynamical Hamiltonian engineering of 2D rectangular lattices in a one-dimensional ion chain

F. Rajabi, S. Motlakunta, C. Shih, N. Kotibhaskar, Q. Quraishi, A. Ajoy, R. Islam
npj Quantum Information 5, 32 (2019) arXiv:1808.06124