The QT3 supports quantum instruction at the University of Washington and currently offers courses through the electrical and computer engineering department. We also currently support the IMOD-STC's onboarding program, and UW's new quantum REU program. We would be happy to support other training activities, courses through other departments at UW, and also to explore transferring materials to other universities. Contact us at qt3lab[at]uw[dot]edu.
The entanglement and single photon lab is a commercially available system from QuTools based on an entangled photon pair source based on spontaneous parametric down conversion (PDC). Capabilities include one and two-qubit tomography, quantum key distribution, violation of Bell’s inequalities, single photon auto-correlation measurement (g(2)) and Hong-Ou-Mandel interference.
This project is supported by IMOD (NSF DMR-2019444)
The ion trap uses high-voltage AC signal to create a quadrupole trapping potential for trapping macroscopic charged particles using methods identical to those used in ion traps for quantum computing. Students will be able to trap and manipulate individual particles and small collections of particles, study their motion, compensate stray fields and measure parameters of the trap. The video to the left shows the secular mode oscillation of two pollen grains trapped in QT3's ion trap.
This project is supported by a Student Technology Fee grant.
This optically-detected magnetic magnetic resonance (ODMR) set-up enables students to perform spin-relaxation measurements on an ensemble of NV centers at room temperature. Features include continuous-wave optically-detected magnetic resonance, Rabi oscillations and dynamic decoupling sequences. The system can also be utilized for other materials systems with optical and RF bands in the experimental range. Finally, the system can be utilized as a testbed for RF quantum control electronics. The lab is based on Sewani et al., where the figure to the left came from.
Build-your-own atomic force microscope
Fourier optics lab