News

Celebrating a couple of things, e.g., our first experimental paper is on the arXiv!, and the NSI paper got accepted and is online in PRR!

Can you spot them? Scroll down to check yourself. Fantastic work, Idan!

Nitrogen molecular ions do not scatter photons in our system, so they appear as "holes" in the ion crystal.

Two new "lab members": a frequency comb and a cold Rb clock. Both will be major players in our "time-and-frequency center". 

Our paper, "Coherent dynamics of a nuclear-spin-isomer superposition", is now available on arXiv!
Congratulations Tamar for this excellent theory paper!

Our paper on dark-matter searches using correlation spectroscopy of I2+ molecule and Ca+ clock is now officially published on PRD!. Many thanks to Eric, Abhishek, and Gilad for the fruitful collaboration. 
 

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Our theory paper on detecting dark matter (nuclear-coupled ultralight dark matter, specifically) by correlation spectroscopy of the iodine molecular ion (I2+) with an optical atomic clock (e.g., Ca+ or Ba+) is now on the arXiv! Many thanks to our collaborators in the high-energy physics department - Eric Madge-Pimentel and Gilad Perez.

On this dark day, Israel suffered an unprecedented attack by Hamas terrorists. 1000’s of innocent people, including infants, children, and senior citizens, from all religions, were brutally murdered, and 100’s of civilians were kidnapped. We mourn the dead and pray for our loved ones to come back home safe: bring them home now.

In <5 months, Jonas, Orr, and Idan built us this beautiful ion trap. Amazing work, and remember - once you trap ions, there is no going back.

Our cross-institutional-grant proposal for a national network of clocks has been accepted!
Each participating institute will host a time-and-frequency center for improving local experiments.
The centers will be connected to a national network allowing cross-institutional collaborations.

Many thanks to the groups of Yuval, Gadi, Liron, Ron, and Roee, who participate in this collaboration.

Omer implemented a qubit that lives in the OPX's FPGA. The "classical" qubit realization keeps track of the wavefunction state and mimics a "real" qubit signal (photons). The photons are then physically connected to our control system (the same OPX...) for us to measure.

Welcome to Dror Einav and Omer Hamdi, and good luck with your summer projects!

Thanks to Jurgen from LiopTEC and Yossi from the Physics core facilities department for setting up the system. 

Big Tx to Ofer, Eilon, Guy, Ezra, Rosty, Ami, and Hila for all the help and support! BTW, the optical table is older than most of the people in this picture. 

Big Tx to Ziv Landau and Itammar Steinberg for improving our electric ion-trap demonstrator during their "experimental-project" course and for making many beautiful pictures and movies!

Joint viewing of the Eurpoean Conference of Trapped Ions (ECTI) and molecular-ions round table at Weizmann Lopatie conference center together with Yuval Shagam's group and Roee Ozeri's group