Welcome to the University of Washington trapped ion quantum computing group page! We work on experimental implementation of quantum computation and quantum communication using single trapped ions and single photons, and the hybrid atom-photon entangled state. Apart from the quantum information applications, we are also interested in testing the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics.

We are a part of the atomic physics group at the UW.

News

5/16/2008
Peter, Nathan and Aaron give talks at the 11^th Annual UW Undergraduate Research Symposium

4/30/2007
Aaron receives a 2008 Washington Space Grant Summer Undergraduate Research Program stipend. He is also inducted into Sigma Pi Sigma National Physics Honor Society.

4/29/2008
Matt takes first Hans G. Dehmelt Prize
Joanna gets the Higgs-Osborn Prize

Ms. Piggy - the ultrastable optical cavity

4/25/2008 Two new papers on

"Precision measurement of the branching ratio in the 6P_3/2 decay of BaII with a single trapped ion" [arXiv:0804.4173] (accepted to PRA)

and

"Nuclear magnetic octupole moment and the hyperfine structure of the 5D_3/2,5/2 states of the Ba⁺ ion" [arXiv:0804.4317] (published in PRA).

Four cool ions

2/1/2008
Joanna selected to present her work on stabilizing the 1762 nm fiber laser (seen on the left) at the Special Undergraduate Session at the 39th Annual Meeting of the DAMOP.

The guy cooler than the ion...

5/23/2007
Joanna, Hoony and Ryan inducted into Sigma Pi Sigma National Physics Honor Society

5/22/2007
Adam receives the Joseph Weis Prize
Ryan gets the Andersen Scholarship

Congratulations!

more pictures...