Theses

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PhD Theses

"Trapping and cooling two-dimensional crystals of barium ions", Alexander Kato, Ph.D. in Physics 2022

"Novel Methods in Trapped-Ion Quantum Computing: Single-Photon-Sensitive Time-Resolving Camera, Sympathetic Cooling, and Qutrit", Liudmila Zhukas, Ph.D. in Physics 2021

"Experiments with Trapped Ions: Entanglement, Novel Traps, and Quantum Jumps", Jennifer Lilieholm, Ph.D. in Physics (2020).

"Coupling the Radial Vibrational Modes of Mixed Barium-Ytterbium Chains for Quantum Computing", Tomasz Sakrejda, Ph.D. in Physics (2017).

"Ion Photon Entanglement in a Parabolic Mirror Trap", Chen-Kuan Chou, Ph.D. in Physics (2017).

"Toward a Loophole-Free Bell Inequality Violation with Barium Ions", Carolyn Auchter, Ph.D. in Physics (2016).

"New techniques and first results toward measuring the 6S1/2 ↔ 5D3/2 magnetic-dipole transition moment in Ba+", Spencer Williams, Ph.D. in Physics (2015).

"Mixed species ion chains for scalable quantum computation", John Wright, Ph.D. in Physics (2015).

"Ion-photon entanglement with barium", Thomas Noel, Ph.D. in Physics (2014).

"Observation of the Nuclear Magnetic Octupole Moment in 137Ba+", Matthew Hoffman, Ph.D. in Physics (2014).

"Towards a measurement of the nuclear magnetic octupole moment of barium-137", Adam Kleczewski, Ph.D. in Physics (2011).

"Experiments with remote entanglement using single barium ions", Nathan Kurz, Ph.D. in Physics (2010).

"Novel Ion Traps for Enhanced Fluorescence Collections and Single Photon Sources Based on Barium Ions", Gang Shu, Ph.D. in Physics (2010).

"Barium Ions for Quantum Computation", Matthew Dietrich, Ph.D. in Physics (2009).

MS Theses

"Topological Quantum Computing with Majorana Zero Mode Qubits: Theory and State of the Art", Martin Jay Caspe, MS in Physics (2020).