Atomic Ion Traps

Trapped ions are an excellent system for quantum computation due to the very weak coupling to the environment, long trapping times and long decoherence times.

Planar Ion Traps

This project combines techniques of ultracold atoms, trapped ions, and quantum computation to explore quantum simulations of a variety of fundamental problems in condensed matter physics and quantum optics.

Polar Molecules

Cold, trapped polar molecular ions are interesting to work with for a variety of reasons. Like polar molecules, they provide energy scales spanning the RF, microwave, and optical frequencies.

Quantum Information Theory

Our group studies the theory of quantum computation and pursues an effort to estimate the threshold for fault tolerant quantum computation.