Southwest Quantum Information and Technology

NIST ions at SQuInT

Presenting Author: David Wineland, NIST, Boulder/University of Oregon

The trapped ion group at NIST has enjoyed a long and rewarding association with SQuInT and its precursor meetings organized by Ivan Deutsch and colleagues. SQuInT's lifetime coincides closely with the rapid growth of interest in Quantum Information (QI) that followed the introduction of Shor's algorithm. These days, there are approximately fifty trapped-ion groups around the world that contribute to QI and many more groups pursuing QI in other physical platforms. I will highlight some of the developments of the NIST ions, but these are only representative of the progress being made by many groups around the world.

(Session 1 : Thursday from 8:30am-9:15am)