Congratulations to Ali Mustafa Khatai for successfully defending his MSc thesis titled “Vacuum assembly, atomic source development and micromotion studies for a trapped Ba+ based quantum processor”! Check it out on UWSpace.

Our paper on characterizing optical fields using ions is now available on the Arxiv! This is an experimental work from the QSim project that shows how ions can not only be used as a platform for quantum information processing, but also to calibrate beams in high-NA systems.

Congratulations to Shilpa Mahato for successfully defending her MSc thesis titled “Mitigating Optical Crosstalk for In-Situ Mid-Circuit Measurement and Reset in a Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulator”! Check it out on UWSpace.

Congratulations to Fabien Lefebvre for successfully defending his MSc thesis titled “Probing Micromotion in a Multi-Segmented Blade-Style Ion Trap”! Check it out on UWSpace.

Congratulations to Dr. Yi Hong Teoh for successfully defending his PhD thesis titled “Autoregressive Generative Models for Many-body Physics”! Check it out on UWSpace.

The Bloodstone system has trapped its first ions! Shown here are a linear chain of 25 Yb ions. Longer chains of ions like these allow for larger and more powerful quantum simulations. Congratulations to everyone on the Bloodstone team for their hardwork in getting this result!

Congratulations to Dr. Nikhil Kotibhaskar for successfully defending his PhD thesis titled “Towards Large Scale Quantum Simulations with Trapped Ions: Programmable XY model, Precise Light Sensing, and Extreme High Vacuum”!

Our paper on Preserving a qubit during adjacent measurements at a few micrometers distance is now available ! This is an experimental work from the QSim project.

Congratulations to Lewis Hahn for successfully defending his MSc thesis on “Developing a robust quantum simulator with trapped ions”! Lewis is continuing with the group for his PhD.

Our paper on Microgram BaCl_2 Ablation Targets for Trapped Ion Experiments has been published in Review of Scientific Instruments! This is an experimental work from the QuantumIon project.

Our paper investigating 2D ion crystals in a hybrid optical cavity trap has been published in PRA! This is a theoretical and numerical work.

Congratulations to Hawking Tan for successfully defending his MSc thesis on “Optimization of the Optical Infrastructure and Trapping Potential for a Quantum Processor Based on Trapped Barium Ions”! Hawking is continuing with the group for his PhD.

Congratulations to Dr. Chung-You Shih for successfully defending his PhD thesis!