Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

People and contacts

Meet our AMO faculty and group leaders and find out more about their research interests.

Professor Matthias Keller

AMO Group Leader

Research interests: The interaction between single atomic ions and light for information exchange between quantum computers.
Ion-trap design, trapped ion cavity-QED, physics of molecular ions.

Email: M.K.Keller@sussex.ac.uk

Read more about Professor Matthias Keller and visit his group, Ion Trap Cavity-QED & Molecular Physics (ITCM)

Dr Matthias Keller

Professor Jacob Dunningham

Research interests: Quantum metrology, Bose-Einstein condensates, entanglement.

Email: J.Dunningham@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Jacob Dunningham

Professor Barry Garraway

Research interests: Theoretical physics, quantum physics, quantum optics.
Theoretical quantum optics, cold atom traps and BEC, molecular control, and femtosecond processes.  Quantum information processing and decoherence.

Email: B.M.Garraway@sussex.ac.uk

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Professor Barry Garraway

Professor Winfried Hensinger

Director of the Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies

Research interests: Ion quantum technology, new quantum technologies using ultra-cold trapped ions.

Experimental quantum computing with ultracold ions, quantum optics, coupled atomic-condensed matter systems in the quantum domain, foundations of quantum mechanics.

Email: W.K.Hensinger@sussex.ac.uk

Read more about Professor Winfried Hensinger and visit his group, Ion Quantum Technology (IQT)

Dr Winfried Hensinger

Professor Peter Kruger

Research interests: The interaction between single atomic ions and light for information exchange between quantum computers.

Ion-trap design, trapor ped ion cavity-QED, physics of molecular ions.

Email: P.Kruger@sussex.ac.uk

Read more about Professor Peter Kruger and visit his group, Quantum Systems and Devices

Peter Kruger

 

Dr Fedja Orucevic

Research interests: The interaction between single atomic ions and light for information exchange between quantum computers.

Ion-trap design, trapped ion cavity-QED, physics of molecular ions.

Email: F.Orucevic@sussex.ac.uk

Read more about Dr Fedja Orucevic and visit his group, Quantum Systems and Devices

Peter Kruger

Professor Jose Verdu Galiana

Research interests: Novel types of traps for electrons with applications to metrology.

Electrons and atoms in quantum circuits.

Email: J.L.Verdu-Galiana@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Evgeny Chekhovich

Research interests: Experimental quantum physics, spin qubits in semiconductor quantum dots, optically detected magnetic resonance, many-body quantum systems.

Email: ec700@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Evgeny Chekhovich, Senior Lecturer in Quantum Optics and Technology