4-8 July 2016
Kramer Law building
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
<a href="http://events.saip.org.za/internalPage.py?pageId=10&confId=86">The Proceedings of SAIP2016</a> published on 24 December 2017

NON-SPECIALIST LECTURE: Trapped ions for new frontiers in precision measurement

7 Jul 2016, 11:30
40m
5C (Kramer Law building)

5C

Kramer Law building

UCT Middle Campus Cape Town
Oral Presentation Track C - Photonics Photonics

Speaker

Dr Hermann Uys (National Laser Centre, CSIR/Department of Physics, Stellenbosch University)

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Ultra-cold, trapped atomic ions have over decades yielded ground-breaking results in spectroscopy, atomic clock physics, and fundamentals of quantum optics. Modern trapped-ion experiments have lead to the creation of tunable quantum simulators of quantum magnetic phenomena, implemented many key steps in the march towards the creation of a general purpose quantum computational device, and more recently heralded in a new research field of ultra-cold molecular ion chemistry. In this talk we discuss the first laser-cooled trapped-ion experiment in South Africa. In particular we examine the prospects for achieving new regimes of precision in trapped-ion atomic clocks based on unsharp measurement protocols that overcome fundamental challenges limiting clock precision in current methods.

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Primary author

Dr Hermann Uys (National Laser Centre, CSIR/Department of Physics, Stellenbosch University)

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