Publications
Journal Articles and Preprints | Theses
2023
"Micromotion-synchronized pulsed Doppler cooling of trapped ions," Alexander Kato, Andrei Nomerotski, and Boris B. Blinov, Phys. Rev. A 107, 023116 (2023). [PDF]
2022
"Two-tone Doppler cooling of radial two-dimensional crystals in a radio-frequency ion trap," Alexander Kato, Apurva Goel, Raymond Lee, Zeyu Ye, Samip Karki, Jian Jun Liu, Andrei Nomerotski, and Boris B. Blinov, Phys. Rev. A 105, 023101 (2022). arXiv:2111.05829 [PDF]
"Ion Coulomb Crystals in Storage Rings for Quantum Information Science," S. Brooks, K. Brown, F. Méot, A. Nomerotski, S. Peggs, M. Palmer, T. Roser, T. Shaftan, G. H. Hoffstaetter, S. Nagaitsev, J. Lykken, J. Jarvis, V. Lebedev, G. Stancari, A. Valishev, A. Taylor, A. Hurd, N. Moody, P. Muggli, A. Aslam, S. G. Biedron, T. Bolin, S. Sosa Guitron, C. Gonzalez-Zacarias, M. Larsson, R. Thomas, B. Huang, T. Robertazzi, J. Cary, B. M. Hegelich, B. B. Blinov, S. Milton, contribution to Snowmass 2021, arxiv:2203.06809. [PDF]
2021
"Cold ion beam in a storage ring as a platform for large-scale quantum computers and simulators: Challenges and directions for research and development," T. Shaftan and Boris B. Blinov, Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 24, 094701 (2021). [PDF]
"High-Fidelity Simultaneous Detection of Trapped Ion Qubit Register," Liudmila A. Zhukas, Peter Svihra, Andrei Nomerotski, and Boris B. Blinov, Phys. Rev. A 103, 062614 (2021).
"Effective sympathetic cooling of barium and ytterbium near the zig-zag transition," Tomasz P. Sakrejda, Liudmila Zhukas and Boris B. Blinov, Quantum Information Processing 20, 162 (2021).
"Direct Observation of Ion Micromotion in a Linear Paul Trap," Liudmila A. Zhukas, Maverick J. Millican, Peter Svihra, Andrei Nomerotski, and Boris B. Blinov, Phys. Rev. A 103, 023105 (2021).
2020
"Photon-mediated entanglement scheme between a ZnO semiconductor defect and a trapped Yb ion," Jennifer F. Lilieholm, Vasilis Niaouris, Alexander Kato, Kai-Mei C. Fu, and Boris B. Blinov, Appl. Phys. Lett. 117, 154002 (2020).
"A Paul Trap with Sectored Ring Electrodes for Experiments with Two-Dimensional Ion Crystals ," Megan K. Ivory, Alex Kato, Ali Hasanzadeh, and Boris B. Blinov, Review of Scientific Instruments 91, 053201 (2020).
2017
"Single Ion Imaging and Fluorescence Collection with a Parabolic Mirror Trap," Chen-Kuan Chou, Carolyn Auchter, Jennifer Lilieholm, Kevin Smith and Boris B. Blinov, Review of Scientific Instruments 88, 086101 (2017).
"A Measurement of the Strongly Forbidden 6S 1/2 <-> 5D 5/2 Magnetic Dipole Transition Moment in Ba +,"Spencer R. Williams, Anupriya Jayakumar, Matthew R. Hoffman, Spencer R. Williams, Boris B. Blinov and E.N. Fortson, Asian Journal of Physics 26 09-19 (2017).
2016
“Towards a Scalable Quantum Computing Architecture with Mixed Species Ion Chains,” John Wright, Carolyn Auchter, Chen-Kuan Chou, Richard D. Graham, Thomas W. Noel, Tomasz Sakrejda, Zichao Zhou, and Boris B. Blinov, Quant. Inf. Proc. 15, (2016).
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2015
"Toward Remote Ion-Ion Entanglement with Barium," Thomas W. Noel, Carolyn Auchter, Chen-Kuan Chou and Boris B. Blinov, SPIE Proceedings vol. 9377: Advances in Photonics of Quantum Computing, Memory, and Communication VII (2015). [PDF]
2014
"Measurement of the Branching Fractions and Lifetime of the 5D5/2 level of Ba+," Carolyn Auchter, Thomas W. Noel, Matthew R. Hoffman, Spencer R. Williams and Boris B. Blinov, Phys Rev A 90, 060501(R) (2014).
"A System for Trapping Barium Ions in a Microfabricated Surface Trap," R.D. Graham, S.-P Chen, T. Sakrejda, J. Wright and B. B. Blinov, AIP Advances 4, 057124 (2014).
"Ion-Photon Entanglement and Bell Inequality Violation with 138Ba+," Carolyn Auchter, Chen-Kuan Chou, Thomas W. Noel and Boris B. Blinov, JOSA B 31 Issue 7 (2014).
2013
"Radio-frequency-spectroscopy measurement of the Lande gJ factor of the 5D5/2 state of Ba+ with a single trapped ion," Matthew R. Hoffman, Thomas W. Noel, Carolyn Auchter, Anupriya Jayakumar, Spencer R. Williams, Boris B. Blinov, and E. N. Fortson, Phys. Rev. A 88, 025401 (2013).
"Method for measuring the 6S1/2<-> 5D3/2 magnetic-dipole-transition moment in Ba+," Spencer R. Williams, Anupriya Jayakumar, Matthew R. Hoffman, Boris B. Blinov, and E. N. Fortson, Phys. Rev. A 88, 012515 (2013).
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2012
"Coherent excitation of the 6S1/2 to 5D3/2 electric-quadrupole transition in 138Ba+," Adam Kleczewski, Matthew Hoffman, J.A. Sherman, Eric Magnuson, Boris B. Blinov, and E. N. Fortson, Phys. Rev. A 85, 043418 (2012).
arXiv:1203.1978 [PDF]
"Adiabatic passage in the presence of noise," T. Noel, M. R. Dietrich, N. Kurz, G. Shu, J. W right and B. B. Blinov, Phys. Rev. A 85, 023401 (2012).
2011
"Efficient fluorescence collection and ion imaging with the "tack" ion trap," G. Shu, C.-K. Chou, N. Kurz, M. R. Dietrich and B. B. Blinov, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28, 2865 (2011).
"Exploring remote entanglement," D.L. Moehring and B. B. Blinov, Nature Photonics News and Views article, Nature Photonics 5 454-456 (2011) [PDF].
2010
"Measurement of Lande g factor of 5D5/2 state of BaII with a single trapped ion," N. Kurz, M. R. Dietrich, Gang Shu, T. Noel and B. B. Blinov, Phys. Rev. A 82, 030501(R) (2010).
"Hyperfine and Optical Barium Ion Qubits," M. R. Dietrich, N. Kurz, T Noel, G. Shu and B. B. Blinov, Phys. Rev. A 81, 052328 (2010).
"Combing a Qubit", B. B. Blinov, Physics 3 30 (2010).
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"Efficient Fluorescence Collection from Trapped Ions with an Integrated Spherical Mirror," G. Shu, N. Kurz, M. R. Dietrich and B. B. Blinov, Phys. Rev. A 81, 042321 (2010).
2009
"Quantum Mechanics: Hidden Context," B. B. Blinov, Nature News and Views article, Nature 460 464-465, (2009).
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"Trapped Ion Imaging with a High Numerical Aperture Spherical Mirror," G. Shu, M. R. Dietrich, N. Kurz, and B. B. Blinov, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 42 154005 (2009).
"Use of a Microcontroller for Fast Feedback Control of a Fiber Laser," M. R. Dietrich and B. B. Blinov,
(arXiv:0905.2484) (2009). [PDF]
"Barium Ions for Quantum Computation", M. R. Dietrich, A. Avril, R. Bowler, N. Kurz, J. S. Salacka, G. Shu and B. B. Blinov, Non-Neutral Plasma Physics VII: Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas 2008, James R. Danielson and Thomas Sunn Pedersen, eds., AIP Conf. Proc. 1114 (1) 25 (2009) .
2008
"Measurement of the branching ratio in the 6P3/2 decay of Ba II with a single trapped ion", N. Kurz, M. R. Dietrich, Gang Shu, R. Bowler, J. Salacka, V. Mirgon, and B. B. Blinov, Phys. Rev. A 77 060501(R) (2008).
"Nuclear magnetic octupole moment and the hyperfine structure of the 5D3/2,5/2 states of the Ba+ ion", K. Beloy, A. Derevianko, V. A. Dzuba, G. T. Howell, B. B. Blinov and E. N. Fortson, Phys. Rev. A 77, 052503 (2008).
2007
"Quantum Networking with Photons and Trapped Atoms", D. L. Moehring, M. J. Madsen, K. C. Younge, R. N. Kohn, Jr., P. Maunz, L.-M. Duan, C. Monroe, and B. B. Blinov, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24, 300 (2007).
2006
"Efficient Photoionization-Loading of Trapped Ions with Ultrafast Pulses", L. Deslauriers, M. Acton, B. B. Blinov, K.-A. Brickman, P. C. Haljan, W. K. Hensinger, D. Hucul, S. Katnik, R. N. Kohn Jr., P. J. Lee, M. J. Madsen, P. Maunz, S. Olmschenk, D. L. Moehring, D. Stick, J. Sterk, M. Yeo, K. C. Younge, and C. Monroe, Phys. Rev. A 74, 063421 (2006).
"Broadband laser cooling of trapped atoms with ultrafast pulses", B. B. Blinov, R. N. Kohn Jr., M. J. Madsen, P. Maunz, D. L. Moehring, and C. Monroe, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 23, 1170-1173 (2006).
"Precision lifetime measurements of a single trapped ion with ultrafast laser pulses", D. L. Moehring, B. B. Blinov, D. W. Gidley, R. N. Kohn Jr., M. J. Madsen, T. D. Sanderson, R. S. Vallery, and C. Monroe, Phys. Rev. A 73, 023413 (2006).