We have moved into our new lab-space in the basement of QNC building (QNC B221).

Sainath receives the Dean of Science Award for his MSc thesis! Congratulations!

Sainath, Gilbert, and Rajibul are attending the DAMOP meeting of the American Physical Society at Milwuakee, WI. Sainath will present a contributed talk and Gilbert will present a poster. Matt Day from Crystal Senko’s group will also present a poster highlighting ‘QuantumIon’ a joint research project between Rajibul’s and Crystal’s group to build an open-access trapped ion quantum computer for researchers.

Duale Omar and Josh Da Costa join the group as undergraduate co-op students for the Spring term. Welcome to the team!

Rajibul gives a seminar and interacts with researchers at the Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC), University of New Mexico.

“Dynamical Hamiltonian engineering of 2D rectangular lattices in a one-dimensional ion chain” is published in npj Quantum Information (Nature Publishing Group). (npj Quantum Information 5, 32 (2019))

Two talks from the QITI group by Chung-You (Gilbert) Shih and Yi Hong Teoh were presented at the second Toronto Ultra-cold Atom Network (TUCAN) meeting hosted by University of Waterloo. Gilbert talked about efficient algorithms to generate amplitude holograms for optical manipulation, and Yi Hong discussed machine learning methods to program a quantum simulator.

Natasha Willis and Daniel Julien-Nietzert join the group for the Winter term as undergraduate co-op students. Welcome to the team!

Dr. Manas Sajjan joins the group for a graduate school in experimental quantum physics, after successfully completing his first PhD at University of Chicago in theoretical chemistry!

Rajibul gives the ‘experimentalist of the week’ talk at the Dynamics of Quantum Information program at KITP, UC Santa Barbara. [Video]

Our experimentally feasible theoretical proposal to create 2D spin lattices from a one dimensional chain of ions is on arXiv! It is a collaboration with UC Berkeley and Army Research Laboratory. (arXiv.1808.06124).

Undergraduate researcher Nikolay Videnov presents his work on making an injection locked diode laser at 369.5 nm at the Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference (CUPC) at University of Alberta.

Sainath defends his M.Sc thesis successfully! He will continue as a PhD student in the group. Congratulations, Sainath!

Gilbert, Sainath, Nikhil, and Rajibul attend the annual meeting of the Division of Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics (DAMOP) of the American Physical Society (APS) in Fort Lauderdale. We present two posters.

Dr. Roland Hablutzel joins the QITI team as a postdoc from the Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore. We also welcome undergraduate researcher Yi Hong Teoh!