Congratulations to Monica for successfully defending her MSc thesis “Towards Pulsed Telecom Laser Ablation Loading for an Ytterbium Ion Trap”! Monica will be continuing with the group for her PhD.

Our paper on a guided light system for individual addressing of Ba+ qubits with 1E-4 level intensity crosstalk has been published in Quantum Science and Technology! This is an experimental work from the QuantumIon project.

Our paper on Programmable XY-type couplings through parallel spin-dependent forces on the same trapped ion motional modes is now available on Arxiv! This is an experimental work from the QSim project.

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!

Our paper on Long-Range XY Model for Quantum State Transfer and Optimal Spatial Search has been published in Quantum Science and Technology! This is a theoretical work.

Our paper on Fast and high-yield fabrication of axially symmetric ion-trap needle electrodes via two step electrochemical etching has been published in Review of Scientific Instruments! This is an experimental work.

Congratulations to Anthony for successfully defending his MSc thesis on “Coherent interactions and thermometry in a trapped ion quantum simulator!” Anthony is continuing with the group for his PhD.

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.