June 2008
Marcus Hughes is the recipient of the departmental prize for an outstanding Master of Physics research project.
March 2008
Rajiv Ramasawmy is featured on the cover of the departmental prospectus featuring lasers in the mist (in our lab).
March 2008
Interview with Winfried Hensinger on UK Future TV about the general research directions of the group.
On the Transport of Atomic Ions in Linear and Multidimensional Ion Trap Arrays
Article on the transport of ions in large scale multi-dimensional ion trap arrays is published in “Quantum Information & Computation”.
Manuscript: On the Transport of Atomic Ions in Linear and Multidimensional Ion Trap Arrays.
July 2007
Jessica Grove-Smith is the co-recipient of the departmental prize for an outstanding Master of Physics research project.
June 2007
First lasers are operating and the overhang for the optical table is completed.
April 2007
Dan Brown, Nik Davies, Jack Friedlander, Jessica Grove-Smith, Ben Pruess, David Scrivener and Tim Short successfully complete their undergraduate research projects.
5th March 2007
The optical table has arrived.
1st October 2006
4 graduate students and 8 undergraduate research project students join the group.
Measurement of motional decoherence scaling for an ion trap with moveable electrodes
September 06
Measurement of motional decoherence scaling for an ion trap with moveable electrodes, demonstrated significant suppression of patch potential heating, demonstrated ion trap with 23 microns ion-electrode spacing in experiments at the University of Michigan published in Physical Review Letters.