Hi quanta, Today's iQuISE in room 26-214 at 12:00 might be of interest to you: Chris Monroe is talking about trapped ions! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sara &lt;smouradi(a)mit.edu&gt; Date: Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:15 PM Subject: [iQuISE] Chris Monroe and QC with trapped ions To: iquise-associates(a)mit.edu Hello all, I hope you stayed warm during the snow day. This thursday, Prof. Chris Monroe from JQI & the University of Maryland will be talking about his group's recent work with trapped ions - both simulations of quantum magnetic interactions, and scaling quantum networks built on trapped ions to useful sizes. The talk will be in room 26-214 at 12:00, with pizza served at 11:45. Thank you, iQuISE Leadership iQuISE Seminar Series *Building a Quantum Computer, Atom by Atom* *THURSDAY, March 16th, 2017* 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM, ROOM 26-214 Laser-cooled and trapped atomic ions are standards for quantum information science, acting as qubits with unsurpassed levels of quantum coherence while also allowing near-perfect measurement. When qubit state-dependent optical forces are applied to a collection of ions, their Coulomb interaction is modulated in a way that allows entanglement operations that form the basis of a quantum computer. Similar forces allow the simulation of quantum magnetic interactions, and recent experiments have implemented tunable long-range interacting spin models with up to 25 trapped ions. Scaling to even larger numbers can be accomplished by coupling trapped ion qubits to optical photons, where entanglement can be formed over remote distances for applications in quantum communication, quantum teleportation, and distributed quantum computation. By employing such a modular and reconfigurable architecture, it should be possible to scale up ion trap quantum networks to useful dimensions, for future quantum applications that are impossible using classical processors. -- Murphy Yuezhen Niu *PhD Candidate* *Optical and Quantum Communications Group <http://www.rle.mit.edu/qoptics/>* *Publications <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0wJPxfkAAAAJ&hl=en>* *Department of Physics* Massachusetts Institute of Technology _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip