activity
20012026
most citedSymmetry Breaking and Topological Defect Formation in Ion Coulomb Crystals

291 citations · 1.4k across the 45 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

47 papers

physics.atom-ph2026

Deterministic engineering of topological defects in two-dimensional single-species ion Coulomb crystals

Luca-Amadeus Rüffert, Hemanth Kalathur, Tanja E. Mehlstäubler

We propose and numerically demonstrate a deterministic protocol for preparing and tailoring topological defects in two-dimensional single-species Coulomb crystals confined in radio…

physics.atom-ph2026

Extreme-ultraviolet spectroscopy using quantum logic: a feasibility study for the 1S-2S transition in singly-ionized helium

A. Martínez de Velasco, V. P. J. Barbé, E. L. Gründeman +11

Extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) spectroscopy represents an important new direction in precision physics, with potential applications ranging from the metrology of fundamental constants t…

physics.atom-ph2026

A multi-ion optical clock with uncertainty

Melina Filzinger, Martin R. Steinel, Jian Jiang +4

Today's most accurate clocks are based on laser spectroscopy of electronic transitions in single trapped ions and feature fractional frequency uncertainties below …

physics.optics2026

Benchmarking Dual-Polarization Silicon Nitride Photonic Integrated Circuits for Trapped-Ion Quantum Technologies

Carl-Frederik Grimpe, Anastasiia Lüßmann-Sorokina, Guochun Du +10

Trapped ions are one of the most advanced platforms for quantum technologies, with applications ranging from quantum computing to precision timekeeping. A crucial step towards more…

physics.atom-ph2025★ 1 cited

Nuclear spin quenching of the electric octupole transition in Yb

Jialiang Yu, Anand Prakash, Clara Zyskind +4

We report the coherent excitation of the highly forbidden clock transition in the odd isotope with nuclear spin ,…

physics.atom-ph2025

Shell formation and two-dimensional nanofriction in three-dimensional ion Coulomb crystals

L. -A. Rüffert, T. E. Mehlstäubler

Self-organized three-dimensional (3D) ion Coulomb crystals in linear Paul traps naturally form concentric shells that provide a curved, atomically resolved interface for studying t…

physics.ins-det2025

The QTF-Backbone: Proposal for a Nationwide Optical Fibre Backbone in Germany for Quantum Technology and Time and Frequency Metrology

Tara Cubel Liebisch, Peter Kaufmann, Harald Schnatz +166

The recent breakthroughs in the distribution of quantum information and high-precision time and frequency (T&F) signals over long-haul optical fibre networks have transformative po…

physics.atom-ph2025★ 18 cited

Coordinated international comparisons between optical clocks connected via fiber and satellite links

Thomas Lindvall, Marco Pizzocaro, Rachel M. Godun +62

Optical clocks provide ultra-precise frequency references that are vital for international metrology as well as for tests of fundamental physics. To investigate the level of agreem…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Scalable chip-based 3D ion traps

Elena Jordan, Malte Brinkmann, Alexandre Didier +8

Ion traps are used for a wide range of applications from metrology to quantum simulations and quantum information processing. Microfabricated chip-based 3D ion traps are scalable t…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Electric Field Distortions in Surface Ion Traps with Integrated Nanophotonics

Guochun Du, Elena Jordan, Tanja E. Mehlstäubler

The integration of photonic components into surface ion traps provides a scalable approach for trapped-ion quantum computing, sensing, and metrology, enabling compact systems with…

physics.atom-ph2025★ 1 cited

High-accuracy multi-ion spectroscopy with mixed-species Coulomb crystals

J. Keller, H. N. Hausser, I. M. Richter +14

Multi-ion optical clocks offer the possibility of overcoming the low signal-to-noise ratio of single-ion clocks, while still providing low systematic uncertainties. We present simu…

physics.atom-ph2024★ 4 cited

Domain formation and structural stabilities in mixed-species Coulomb crystals induced by sympathetically cooled highly charged ions

L. -A. Rüffert, E. A. Dijck, L. Timm +2

There is a growing interest in high-precision spectroscopy and frequency metrology for fundamental studies using sympathetically cooled highly charged ions (HCIs) embedded in Coulo…

physics.soc-ph2024

Women for Quantum -- Manifesto of Values

Almut Beige, Ana Predojević, Anja Metelmann +30

Data show that the presence of women in quantum science is affected by a number of detriments and their percentage decreases even further for higher positions. Beyond data, from ou…

physics.atom-ph2024★ 3 cited

Deterministic preparation of a dual-species two-ion crystal

Maximilian J. Zawierucha, Till Rehmert, Jonas Keller +3

The demand for efficient preparation methods for dual-species ion crystals is rapidly expanding across quantum technology and fundamental physics applications with trapped ions. We…

physics.atom-ph2024★ 39 cited

Probing new bosons and nuclear structure with ytterbium isotope shifts

Menno Door, Chih-Han Yeh, Matthias Heinz +24

In this Letter, we present mass-ratio measurements on highly charged Yb ions with a precision of and isotope-shift measurements on Yb on the …

physics.atom-ph2024★ 42 cited

In-Yb Coulomb crystal clock with systematic uncertainty

H. N. Hausser, J. Keller, T. Nordmann +17

We present a scalable mixed-species Coulomb crystal clock based on the transition in In. Yb ions are co-trapped and used f…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 5 cited

Heat transport in a Coulomb ion crystal with a topological defect

L. Timm, H. Weimer, L. Santos +1

The thermodynamics of low-dimensional systems departs significantly from phenomenologically deducted macroscopic laws. Particular examples, not yet fully understood, are provided b…

quant-ph2023★ 6 cited

Sideband thermometry of ion crystals

Ivan Vybornyi, Laura S. Dreissen, Dominik Kiesenhofer +7

Coulomb crystals of cold trapped ions are a leading platform for the realisation of quantum processors and quantum simulations and, in quantum metrology, for the construction of op…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 8 cited

Robust and scalable rf spectroscopy in first-order magnetic sensitive states at second-long coherence time

C. -H. Yeh, K. C. Grensemann, L. S. Dreissen +2

Trapped-ion quantum sensors have become highly sensitive tools for the search of physics beyond the Standard Model. Recently, stringent tests of local Lorentz-invariance (LLI) have…

physics.atom-ph2023

Excitation of forbidden electronic transitions in atoms by Hermite-Gaussian modes

Anton A. Peshkov, Elena Jordan, Markus Kromrey +3

Photoexcitation of trapped ions by Hermite-Gaussian (HG) modes from guided beam structures is proposed and investigated theoretically. In particular, simple analytical expressions…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 3 cited

Bichromatic UV detection system for atomically-resolved imaging of ions

T. Nordmann, S. Wickenhagen, M. Doležal +1

We present a compact and bichromatic imaging system, located outside of the vacuum chamber of a trapped ion apparatus, that collects the fluorescence of 230.6 nm and 369.5 nm photo…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 7 cited

Systematic study of tunable laser cooling for trapped-ion experiments

A. P. Kulosa, O. N. Prudnikov, D. Vadlejch +5

We report on a comparative analysis of quenched sideband cooling in trapped ions. We introduce a theoretical approach for time-efficient simulation of the temporal cooling characte…

physics.atom-ph2022★ 27 cited

Evaluation of a Sr optical clock with a direct measurement of the blackbody radiation shift and determination of the clock frequency

M. Steinel, H. Shao, M. Filzinger +7

We report on an evaluation of an optical clock that uses the transition of a single Sr ion as the reference. In con…

physics.atom-ph2022★ 4 cited

Probe field ellipticity-induced shift in an atomic clock

V. I. Yudin, A. V. Taichenachev, O. N. Prudnikov +5

We investigate the probe field induced shift for atomic lattice-based and ion-trap clocks, which can be considered as a near resonant ac-Stark shift, connected to the Zeeman struct…