collaborators

5 papers

quant-ph2026

Rydberg state engineering of trapped ions

Robin Thomm, Vinay Shankar, Natalia Kuk +3

Microwave dressing of Rydberg ions creates tunable eigenstates with controllable polarizability and interaction strength, but coherent navigation between these states has remained…

quant-ph2026

Decoupling of the STIRAP and Microwave-Dressing paths in Trapped Rydberg Ion Gates

K. N. Zlatanov, M. Mallweger, M. Hennrich +1

The strong dipole-dipole interaction of trapped Rydberg ions offers the possibility of sub-microsecond entanglement gates. For example a two-qubit Control-Phase gate in 88 Sr + ion…

quant-ph2026

Quantum simulation with Rydberg ions in a Penning trap

Wilson S. Martins, Markus Hennrich, Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler +1

Quantum simulation of interacting many-body spin systems is routinely performed with cold trapped ions, and systems with hundreds of spins have been studied in one and two dimensio…

quant-ph2025

Probing electronic state-dependent conformational changes in a trapped Rydberg ion Wigner crystal

Marion Mallweger, Natalia Kuk, Vinay Shankar +6

State-dependent conformational changes play a central role in molecular dynamics, yet they are often difficult to observe or simulate due to their complexity and ultrafast nature.…

physics.atom-ph2025

Impact of micromotion and field-axis misalignment on the excitation of Rydberg states of ions in a Paul trap

Wilson S. Martins, Joseph W. P. Wilkinson, Markus Hennrich +1

Trapped ions are among the most advanced platforms for quantum simulation and computation. Their capabilities can be further augmented by making use of electronically highly excite…