Southwest Quantum Information and Technology
Twelfth Annual Meeting, February 18-21, 2010
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Wednesday Program - 18 February 2009
| 10:00-12:00 | Those arriving early to IAS II are welcome to tour the University of Washington AMO physics labs (trapped ion quantum computing and quantum-degenerate gases). The tour will depart from the hotel lobby at 10am. Please email Boris Blinov blinov@u.washington.edu to sign up for the tour. |
| 12:00-1:00 | Workshop Registration |
| 1:00-1:20 | Introductory Remarks - Matthew Blain, SNL; Tatjana Curcic, AFOSR; TR Govindan, ARO |
| SESSION 1: Integrated Ion Traps | Session Chair: Dick Slusher |
| 1:20-1:40 | Brad Blakestad, NIST Boulder (invited) | Transport and heating in an X-junction ion trap array |
| 1:40-2:00 | David Leibrandt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (invited) | Experiments and ideas in trapped ion cavity QED |
| 2:00-2:20 | Steve Olmschenk, University of Maryland (invited) | Quantum Computation with Ions and Photons |
| 2:20-2:40 | Jason Amini, NIST Boulder (invited) | Scalable Traps for Quantum Information Processing with Ions* |
| 2:40-3:10 | Afternoon Coffee Break |
| 3:10-3:30 | Ken Brown, Georgia Institute of Technology (invited) | Atomic ions as probes of molecular ions |
| 3:30-3:50 | John Chiaverini, Los Alamos National Laboratory (invited) | Dynamically configurable trapped-ion arrays for streamlined quantum processing |
| 3:50-4:10 | Wolfgang Hänsel, University of Innsbruck (invited) | Miniaturized Ion Traps for Quantum Computation |
| 4:10-4:30 | David Lucas, University of Oxford (invited) | Microfabricated traps and high-fidelity readout for trapped ions |
| SESSION 2: Poster Session and Reception | |
| 4:30-6:30 | Poster Abstracts |
| SESSION 3: Atoms on Chips | Session Chair: Peter Schwindt |
| 6:30-6:50 | Paul Baker, Air Force Research Laboratory (invited) | Adjustable microchip ringtraps for cold atoms and molecules. |
| 6:50-7:10 | Thomas Purdy, UC Berkeley (invited) | Combining Cavity QED and Atom Chips |
| 7:10-7:30 | Thorsten Schumm, Technical University of Vienna (invited) | One-dimensional Bose gases on atom chips |
| 7:30-7:45 | Evening Coffee Break |
| 7:45-8:05 | Michael Trupke, Imperial College (invited) | Integrating optical devices with atom chips |
| 8:05-8:25 | Holger Schmidt, UC Santa Cruz (invited) | Atomic spectroscopy on a chip using hollow-core waveguides |
| 8:25-8:45 | Joseph Thywissen, University of Toronto (invited) | Number counting atoms in an RF-dressed double well |
Thursday Program - 19 February 2009
| 7:00-8:30 | Workshop Breakfast |
| SESSION 4: Atomic Clocks and Sensors | Session Chair: Dana Anderson |
| 8:30-8:50 | Robert Lutwak, Symmetricom (invited) | The Chip-Scale Atomic Clock |
| 8:50-9:10 | John Prestage, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (invited) | Small Ion Clock for Space Applications |
| 9:10-9:30 | Peter Schwindt, Sandia National Laboratories (invited) | A Microfabricated Tunable Cavity Atomic Magnetometer |
| 9:30-9:45 | Morning Coffee Break |
| 9:45-10:05 | Clark Griffith, NIST Boulder (invited) | Developments in chip scale atomic magnetometers |
| 10:05-10:25 | Michael Romalis, Princeton University (invited) | Atomic magnetometers in sub-fT regime |
| 10:25-10:45 | Dmitry Budker, UC Berkeley (invited) | Measuring Nuclear Magnetism with Small Atomic Magnetometers |
| 10:45-11:00 | Morning Coffee Break |
| SESSION 5: Enabling Technologies for Integrated Atomic Systems | Session Chair: Jungsang Kim |
| 11:00-11:20 | Amit Lal, DARPA (invited) | Centimeter-cube scale Atomic Sensors and Actuators |
| 11:20-11:40 | Jeffrey DeNatale, Teledyne (invited) | Fabrication of Atom Chips for Cold Atom Systems |
| 11:40-12:00 | Ron Folman, Ben Gurion University (invited) | Where material engineering meets atom optics |
| 12:00-1:30 | Workshop Lunch |
| 1:30-1:50 | Shanalyn Kemme, Sandia National Laboratories (invited) | Diffractive and Gray-Scale Optical Integration for Ion Traps |
| 1:50-2:10 | Lih Lin, University of Washington (invited) | Nanoscale Quantum Dot Photodetectors with High Spatial Resolution and Sensitivity |
| 2:10-2:30 | Darwin Serkland, Sandia National Laboratories (invited) | VCSELs for Atomic Systems |
| 2:30-4:00 | Breakout Feedback and Discussion Sessions |