Past Events
[Seminar] "Quantum control over radioactive ions and nuclei" by Prof. Eric Hudson (UCLA)
2025-09-18Speaker: Prof. Eric Hudson (UCLA)
Title: Quantum control over radioactive ions and nuclei
[Seminar] Doing more with the same using metastable states of trapped ions, Jameson O'Reilly, University of Oregon
2025-06-06Today’s most advanced ion trap quantum computers have at most one qubit per ion, each defined within the ground state manifold. Additional non-qubit ions provide sympathetic cooling to keep the computational ions cold enough to perform many rounds of high-fidelity coherent operations. Typically, the two subsets of ions must be different species to prevent cooling light from disturbing the computation. To bypass this added system complexity, we can instead promote our computational ions to a long-lived excited state that is isolated from the ground-state cooling transitions. This promotion also enables new features including erasure conversion and projective state preparation and cooling. We will discuss two recent efforts to develop this architecture: entangling gates between metastable qubits and mid-circuit sympathetic cooling and readout of a metastable ion by a ground-state ion. Finally, we will take advantage of the larger metastable manifold to explore high-fidelity qudit control.
Workshop Event : Advanced Quantum Technologies for Trapped Ions (AQTTI)
2024-09-21 to 2024-09-24The AQTTI workshop will be hosted by the Experimental Quantum Information Physics Unit.
Prof. Hiroki Takahashi
Controlling Ions in a Two-Dimensional Array
2023-11-20Dr. Nathan Kenneth Lysne, PREP Postdoctoral Associate, CU Boulder, NIST
Language: English.
Moonshot Public Symposium 2022 for Goal 6
2022-03-11About one year has passed since the start of R&D for Moonshot Goal 6, "a fault-tolerant universal quantum computer that will revolutionize economy, industry, and security by 2050”. They will disseminate the results of R&D currently being carried out in the goal's seven projects, and explore issues related to the realization of fault-tolerant universal quantum computers. Prof. Hiroki Takahashi will give a presentation.
[Seminar] "Trapping Electrons in a Room-temperature Quadrupole Trap: Towards an All-electronic Microwave-enabled Trapped Electron Qubit System for QIP" by Prof. Hartmut Häffner
2021-07-16Hartmut Häffner is an Associate Professor for Physics at UC Berkeley. Language: English, no interpretation. Open to everyone.
[Seminar] "Quantum Simulations Using the Motional States of Trapped Ions” by Prof. Norbert M. Linke
2021-06-22Prof. Norbert M. Linke is a Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland, working on quantum applications with trapped ions, including quantum computing.
Seminar: "Optical cavity for quantum networks" by Dr. Ezra Kassa
2019-10-28Speaker: Dr. Ezra Kassa, University of Oxford, United Kingdom









