August 21, 2024
Duke Quantum Center had a strong turnout at the 4th North American Conference on Trapped Ions held at UCLA.
Ken Brown gave an invited talk on simulating conical intersections with trapped ions.
Swapnil Patel presented a poster on charge exchange between a K MOT and CaH+ ions.
Marissa D'Onofrio presented a poster on an updated on the cryogenic ion trap system and control system developed as part of the NSF STAQ project.
Lu Qi presented a poster on observing a dipole phonon quantum logic signal between CaO+ and Ca+.
Ke Sun (MIST lab) presented a poster on the control of motional modes for simulating dissipative photochemical systems. ( arXiv:2405.14624 )This is joint work between the Brown lab, the MIST lab of Jungsang Kim, and David Beratan's lab.