Rajibul is promoted to associate professor with tenure.

Thanks to all the present and past members of the team whose hard work and dedication made this possible!

Congratulations to Ali Binai-Motlagh for successfully defending his MSc thesis on optical addressing for individual Barium qubits! Ali will join Columbia University as a PhD student!

Congratulations to Darian Mclaren for successfully defending his MSc thesis on On the evaluation of quantum instruments with a consideration to measurements in trapped ion systems!

Congratulations to Zewen Sun for successfully defending his MSc thesis on theoretical investigations into optical trapping of ions! Zewen will next move to Max Planck Institute for a PhD in theoretical physics.

Congratulations to Chung-You (Gilbert) Shih , a PhD student in the group for receiving the IQC Achievement Award, 2021! The awards are given to University of Waterloo graduate students working on quantum information at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), based on exceptional achievement in research. Gilbert was recognized for developing an ultra-precise optical addressing system for a trapped-ion quantum simulator.

More about IQC Achievement Awards

List of past winners

Congratulations to Nikhil Kotibhaskar , a PhD student in the group for winning the best student presenter award at the annual Congress of the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP)! He first won the competition in the Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics category and then went on to win the national competition among all areas of physics. There were about 325 competitors and an 81-member judging team.

Nikhil talked about our research on developing a trapped-ion quantum simulator.

CAP announcement

IQC news coverage

Our paper on ultra-precise holographic optical addressing of ions is published in npj Quantum Information! This is an experimental research.

Rajibul took part in a podcast on the National Public Radio (NPR) along with Emily Kwong and Geoff Brumfiel of NPR, Chris Monroe, co-founder of IonQ and Marissa Giustina, Google.

A different version was aired on All Things Considered on 30 April 2021.

Our manuscript titled “Manipulating phonons of a trapped-ion system using optical tweezers ” is on arXiv! This is a theoretical and numerical research.

University of Waterloo and University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK hosted their first virtual research colloquium on 12 Nov, 2020. Nikolay presented a talk on behalf of the QuantumION project, focusing on our design for individual addressing of Barium qubits.

His talk was judged to be the best UW presentation of the day! Congrats, Nik!

UW press release

Interview for the Writing and Communication Centre Blog

Dr. Manas Sajjan defends his MSc thesis online! His MSc work included both theoretical and experimental aspects. On the theoretical side, Manas investigated the role of optical tweezer potentials on ions confined in a radio-frequency (RF) trap. Optical tweezers would allow for local control of the confining potential, which can be used for investigating quantum thermodynamics. On the experimental side, Manas was part of the team that built our four-rod trap. He fabricated the electrodes, built the RF resonator which powers them, and worked on optics.

Congrats, Manas!