Group Meeting Schedule
There is a regular weekly group meeting every Wednesday, 11am-1pm in the Seminar Room (room 216).
Anybody who is interested is invited to join these meetings.
Meeting Schedule 2020
- 22nd January 2020 (Meeting 1)
Chris: Report on the young researcher workshop in CERN - 5th February 2020 (Meeting 2)
Andreas: general information on different projects and upcoming conferences (STA 2020 in Toulouse, CAMEL 16 & IOPI Spring Meeting in UCC)
Meeting Schedule 2019
- 7th November 2019 (Meeting 26)
Andreas: Report on the AtomQT meeting in Sarajevo - 23rd October 2019 (Meeting 25)
Manuel: A brief look at Quantum Cryptography - 16th October 2019 (Meeting 24)
Imobach Garcia Martin: Review of Methods of Shortcuts to Adiabaticity - 14th October 2019: Visit of Mark Mitchison (TCD)
Talk: "A spin heat engine coupled to a simple harmonic oscillator flywheel" - 9th October 2019 (Meeting 23)
David Rea: Presentatin of the paper
Authors: D.von Lindenfels, O.Grab, C.T.Schmiegelow, V.Kaushal, J.Schulz, M.Mitcheson, J.Goold, F.Schmidt-Kaler
"A spin heat engine coupled to a simple harmonic oscillator flywheel" Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 080602 (2019) - 2nd October 2019 (Meeting 22)
Imobach Garcia Martin: Review of Heisenberg picture, Interaction picture & the Adiabatic Theorem - 17th September 2019 (Meeting 21)
Chris Whitty: Report about Barcelona summer school "Atoms and Sensing" - 10th September 2019 (Meeting 20)
Imobach Garcia Martin: University of La Laguna final year project
"Semiclassical models in the coherent states representation
Chris Whitty: Report about Barcelona summer school - 5th September 2019 (Meeting 19)
James McCluskey: Summer research project "Quantum Speed Limits" - 20th August 2019 (Meeting 18)
General Meeting - 15th August 2019 (Meeting 17)
Timothy Peters (Summer Studentship)
"Quantum Algorithms"
James McCluskey (Summer Studentship)
"Quantum Speed Limits" - 8th August 2019 (Meeting 16)
Timothy Peters (Summer Studentship) - An outline of the Grover Algorithm
Anthony Kiely: Presentation of the paper
Authors: P.Claeys, M.Pandey, D.Sels & A.Polkovnikov
"Floquet-engineering counterdiabatic protocols in quantum many-body systems" (arXiv:1904.03209) - 21st May 2019 (Meeting 12)
David Rea: Updating SI units - 14th May 2019 (Meeting 11)
Chris Whitty: Presentation of the paper
Authors: D.Stefanatos & E.Paspalakis
"Maximising entanglement in Bosonic Josephson junctions using STA and Optimal Control" (arXiv:1802.07097) - 8th May 2019 (Meeting 10)
General Meeting - 10th April 2019 (Meeting 9)
Mossey Fogarty
"Quantum Speed Limit Condition, Heat Engines, Quantum Otto cycle"
OIST TB Gp - 2nd April 2019 (Meeting 8)
Tom: Presentation of the paper
Authors: N. Vitanov & M. Drewsen
"Optically-Induced Highly-Efficient Detection and Separation of Chiral Molecules through Shortcuts to Adiabaticity" (arXiv: 1901.11487) - 12th March 2019 (Meeting 6):
Andreas: Report on the Granada Kick-off meeting COST action on Trapped Ions: Progress on Classical & Quantum Applications
Meeting Schedule 2018
- 19th December 2018 (Meeting 31)
All: Christmas Group Meeting - 21st November 2018 (Meeting 27)
Guido: Page-Wootters relational time and absorptive detector models - 17th October 2018 (Meeting 24)
Andreas: Report on European Quantum Flagship Meeting in Wien - 10th October 2018 (Meeting 23)
Chris: Presnentation of the paper:
Y.Li, X.Chen, J.G.Muga & E.Sherman, "Qubit gates with simultaneous transport in double quantum dots", arXiv:1809.08952 - 3rd October 2018 (Meeting 22)
Chris: Further aspects of the GRAPE algorithm - 8th August 2018 (Meeting 19)
Beatriz Rodrigues: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
Chris: Some aspects of the GRAPE Algorithm - 17th July 2018 (Meeting 18)
Andreas: Shortcuts to Adiabaticity: a new review
Chris: Few words on Riesenfeld invariants
Tom: Opening of a harmonic trap - 28th June 2018 (Meeting 17)
Conal Murphy: Machine Learning: An introduction - 22nd June 2018 (Meeting 16)
David: Report on Irish Quantum Foundations Conference
Chris: The Chris Whitty view of The Adiabatic Theorem (continuation) - 15th May 2018 (Meeting 13)
David: Report on IOPI Spring Meeting - 26th April 2018 (Meeting 12)
Tom: report on CAMEL 18 (Bansko)
Andreas: Report from AtomQT meeting (Creta) - 11th April 2018 (Meeting 11)
Chris: Report on course on Scientific Writing - 21st March 2018 (Meeting 10)
Chris: The Chris Whitty view of The Adiabatic Theorem - 7th March 2018 (Meeting 9)
Tom: Practice talk for the CAMEL meeting - 31st January 2018 (Meeting 4)
Andreas: Complex Functions and some of their properties in 18 concise bites - 24th January 2018 (Meeting 3)
Tom: Presentation of the paper
X.Chen, R.Jiang, J.Li, Y.Ban & E.Y.Sherman
"Inverse engineering for fast transport and spin control of spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates in moving harmonic traps" (arXiv: 1801.02887) - 10th January 2018 (Meeting 1)
Cian: Harmonic Oscillator with time-varying mass
Meeting Schedule 2017
- 13th December 2017 (Meeting 37)
All: Christmas Group Meeting - 29th November 2017 (Meeting 35)
Chris: Raman Scattering & Processes - 15th November 2017 (Meeting 33)
Tom: The Quantum Catcher (part 2)
Andreas: Report from the Bielefeld meeting: The Message of Quantum Science II - 1st November 2017 (Meeting 32)
Tom: The Quantum Catcher: Trapping and Cooling particles with a moving mirror & moving diode (part 1) - 18th October 2017 (Meeting 30)
Andreas: Calculating ground states using imaginary time - 27th September 2017 (Meeting 27)
Chris: Presentation of the paper
L.de Clercq, H.Lo, M.Marinelli, D.Nadlinger, R.Oswald, V.Negnevitsky, D.Kienzler, B.Keitch & J.Home
"Parallel transport quantum logic gates with trapped ions" (PRL 116, 080502 (2016)) - 20th September 2017 (Meeting 26)
Andreas: Presentation of the paper
A.Ruschhaupt, T.Dowdall, M.Simon & J.G.Muga
"Asymmetric scattering by non-hermitian potentials" (arXiv:1709.07027)
Report from Photonics Conference in Galway - 6th September 2017 (Meeting 25)
- 24th August 2017 (Meeting 23)
Niall Kennedy: Summer project presentation
Shan Zou: Project presentation - 12th July 2017 (Meeting 19)
Andreas and Tom: Report on Nessebar meeting - 31th May 2017 (Meeting 18)
David and Cian: Report on IQF 2017 meeting
Tom: Quantum Coherent Control via Pauli Blocking (Dry run for Nessebar) - 17th May 2017 (Meeting 16)
Cian: Report on Field quadratures, coherent states and squeezed states - 10th May 2017 (Meeting 15)
Tom: Non-local PT quantum potentials - 3rd May 2017 (Meeting 14)
Guido: A partial overview of pure and mixed quantum states - 22nd March 2017 (Meeting 10)
John Goold: Quantum Thermodynamics
J. Gonzalo Muga: Dynamical normal modes for time-dependent Hamiltonians in two dimensions
Anthony: The Effect of Poisson noise on adiabatic quantum control (arXiv:1609.04272) - 25th January 2017 (Meeting 3)
Cian: Report on UCC seminar day for master/PhD students - 18th January 2017 (Meeting 2)
Anthony: Quantum State Transfer via Invariant based Shortcuts to Adiabaticity (PhD thesis) - 11st January 2017 (Meeting 1)
Meeting Schedule 2016
- 14th December 2016 (Meeting 39)
- 16th November 2016 (Meeting 37)
Brian O'Sullivan: The Hopf Fibration and Hidden Variables in Quantum and Classical Mechanics - 28th September 2016 (Meeting 29)
Guido: Overview: Time in Quantum Mechanics - 3rd August 2016 (Meeting 23)
Chris Whitty: Presentation: Summer project - 13th April 2016 (Meeting 15)
Guido: Simulated evolution and graphical representation of quantum systems (Bsc Thesis) - 6th April 2016 (Meeting 14)
- 30th March 2016 (Meeting 13)
- 16th March 2016 (Meeting 12)
Andreas: Presentation of the paper
A.Fortun, C.Cabrera-Gutierrez, G.Condon, E.Michon, J.Billy and D.Guery-Odelin
"Direct tunnelling delay time measurement in an optical lattice" (arXiv: 1603.03655) - 15th March 2016 (Meeting 11)
Kevin Collins: Shortcuts to Adiabaticity for multiple wells in a line - 9th March 2016 (Meeting 10)
David: Presentation of the paper
J.Millen and A.Xuereb
"The Rise of Quantum Machines" (Physics World, January 2016) - 2nd March 2016 (Meeting 9)
Tom: Report about current reserach project - 29th February 2016 (Meeting 8)
Anthony: Report about current reserach project Shaken but not stirred:Creating exotic angular momentum states by shaking an optical lattice - 24th February 2016 (Meeting 7)
David: Brief report of the 2016 IOPI Spring Weekend meeting in Belfast. Theme:100 years of Einstein's GR
Y.X.Du, Z.T.Liang, Y.C.Li, X.X.Yue, Q.X.Lv, W.Huang, X.Chen, H.Yan and S.L.Zhu"Experimental realisation of stimulated Raman superadiabatic passage with cold atoms" (arXiv: 1601.06058) - 17th February 2016 (Meeting 6)
David: Presentation of the paper
Anthony: Presentation of the paper
G.Jacob, K.Groot-Berning, S.Wolf, S.Ulm, L.Couturier, U.Poschinger, F.Schmidt-Kaler and K.Singer
"Single particle microscopy with nanometer resolution" (arXiv: 1405.05090) - 3rd February 2016 (Meeting 5)
Brian O'Sullivan: The Bloch Sphere; Spinors, Vectors and Galilean Frames - 27th January 2016 (Meeting 4)
- 20th January 2016 (Meeting 3)
Anthony: Presentation of the paper
C.Arenz, D.Burgarth, P.Facchi, V.Giovannetti, H.Nakazato, S.Pascazio and K.Yuasa
"Universal Control Induced by Noise" (arXiv: 1601.01212) - 14th January 2016 (Meeting 2)
David: Presentation of the paper
J.Rossnagel, S.T.Dawkins, K.N.Tolazzi, O.Abah, E.Lutz, F.Schmidt-Kaler and K.Singer
"A single-atom heat engine" (arXiv: 1510.03681) - 7th January 2016 (Meeting 1)
Andreas: Background for Tom's reseach project
Meeting Schedule 2015
- 10th December 2015 (Meeting 38)
- 3rd December 2015 (Meeting 37)
Andreas: The Atom Diode: A one-way laser for cooling atoms (Eur Phys J, 159, 127-134 (2008)) - 26th November 2015 (Meeting 36)
Anthony: Report on Bilbao reserach visit
Tom: Report on session 2 of the UCG computing course - 19th November 2015 (Meeting 35)
Tom: Quantum Catcher - 12th November 2015 (Meeting 34)
Anthony about his current research - 9th November 2015 (Meeting 33)
Paul Eastham about Bath-induced coherence - 5th November 2015 (Meeting 32)
David: Symmetries in Quantum Mechanics - 22th October 2015 (Meeting 31)
Andreas: Introduction to the quantum jump formalism - 19th October 2015 (Meeting 30)
S. Campbell: Equilibration and nonclassicality of a double-well potential (arXiv:1507.04355) and Paying the price:controlling many-body quantum systems - 16th October 2015 (Meeting 29)
J. G. Muga: Shortcuts to Adiabaticity in Trapped Ions - 15th October 2015 (Meeting 28)
Tom: Summary of chapter 2 of the review about shortcuts to adiabaticity - 8th October 2015 (Meeting 27)
Anthony: Presentation of the paper
L.de Clercq, HY Lo, M.Marinelli, D.Nadlinger, R.Oswald, V.Negnevitsky, D.Kienzler, B. Keitch and J.Home
"Parallel transport quantum logic gates with trapped ions" (arXiv: 1509.06624) - 1st October 2015 (Meeting 26)
- 24th September 2015 (Meeting 25)
- 17th September 2015 (Meeting 24)
Kevin Collins: Control in Quantum Systems for Quantum Information (final presentation of summer research work) - 10th September 2015 (Meeting 23)
Brian O'Sullivan: An Overview of the Geometric Phase:Rotors and Spinors - 3rd September 2015 (Meeting 22)
Andreas: Review of Photonics Ireland 2015 - 28th August 2015 (Meeting 21)
Anthony: Presentation of the paper
S.van Frank, A.Negretta, T.Berrada,R.Bucker, S.Montangero, J.F.Schaff, T.Schumm, T.Calarco and J.Schmiemeyer
"Interferometry with non-classical motional states of a Bose-Einstein Condensate" (Nat Comm 5, doi 10.1038) - Andreas: Report about research visit to Bilbao
- 16th July 2015 (Meeting 20)
Andreas: Report about CEWQO 2015 in Warsaw
Andreas/Anthony; Report about CAMEL 2015 workshop in Nessebar - 23th June 2015 (Meeting 19)
Kevin Collins: Control in Quantum Information Systems (Initial presentation of summer project) - 11th June 2015 (Meeting 18)
Padraig Daly: The Quantum Mechanics of Time (Initial presentation of summer project) - 8th June 2015 (Meeting 17)
Anthony: Shortcuts to Adiabaticity:Stable Population Transfer in Quantum States Practical presentation for the Nessebar workshop in Bulgaria - 5th June 2015 (Meeting 16)
- 21th May 2015 (Meeting 15)
Anthony: Dry run for annual PhD review - 14th May 2015 (Meeting 14)
- 8th May 2015 (Meeting 13)
- 30th April 2015 (Meeting 12)
Andreas: Presentation of the paper - S.S. Ivanov and N. V. Nitanov, "Composite two-qubit quantum gates" (arXiv: 1503.08788)
- 23th April 2015 (Meeting 11)
David: Presentation of the paper~
L.Slodicka, G.Hetet, M.Hennrich and Rainer Blatt, "Free Space Interference Experiments with single photons and single ions" (arXiv: 1502.04302) - 2nd April 2015 (Meeting 10)
Sharon Kelly: "Stability examination of shortcut schemes for population inversion in 3-level systems" - 20th March 2015 (Meeting 9)
- 13th March 2015 (Meeting 8)
- 20th February 2015 (Meeting 7)
Andreas: Presentation of the paper - M.Palermo, S.Martinez-Garaot, J.Alonso,J.P.Home and J.G.Muga, "Fast expansions and compressions of trapped ion-chains" (arXiv: 1502.00998)
- 13th February 2015 (Meeting 6)
- 6th February 2015 (Meeting 5)
Anthony: Report on High Performance Computing Course at Tyndall Institute - 30th January 2015 (Meeting 4)
David: Presentation of the paper - J.Leonard, M.Lee, A.Morales, T.M.Karg, T.Esslinger and Tobias Donner, "Optical transport and manipulation of an ultracold atomic cloud using focus-tunable lenses" (arXiv: 1406.2336)
- 23th January 2015 (Meeting 3)
- 16th January 2015 (Meeting 2)
- 9th January 2015 (Meeting 1)
Andreas: Report about visit to Bilbao
Meeting Schedule 2014
- 18th December 2014 (Meeting 29)
Tara Hennessy: "Aspects of Wave Propagation in Optical Nanofibres"
Kristian Warnholz: Presentation on QM & Mathematica work - 4th December 2014 (Meeting 28)
Discussion of the Penning Trap paper
Anthony: Presentation of the paper
S.Masuda, K.Nakamura and A. Del Campo, "High Fidelity rapid ground-state loadingof an ultracold gasinto an optical lattice" (arXiv: 1407.3212 - 27th November 2014 (Meeting 27)
David: Rabi precision spectroscopy and Ramsey interferometry
Andreas: Presentation of the paper
G. Grigoryan, V.Chaltykyan, E.Gazazyan, O.Tikhova and V. Paturyan, "Pulse propagation, population transfer and light storage in five-level media" (arXiv: 1410.6647) - 20th November 2014 (Meeting 26)
Brian O'Sullivan: Geometric Phase - 13th November 2014 (Meeting 25)
Andreas: The Klein-Gordon and the Dirac Equation - 6th November 2014 (Meeting 24)
Anthony: Presentation of the paper
M.S.Sarandy, E.I.Duzzlonl and M.H.Y. Moussa, "Dynamic invariants and nonadiabatic geometric phases in open quantum systems" (PRA 76 052112 (2007)David: Introduction to the Pauli Equation - 23th October 2014 (Meeting 23)
Andreas: Presentation of the paper
D.Egger & F.K.Wilhelm, "Optimal Control of Quantum Measurement" (arXiv:1408.6086) - 16th October 2014 (Meeting 22)
Anthony: Presentation of the paper
Steve Campbell, Gabriale De Chiara, Mauro Paternostro, G. Massimo Palma and Rosario Fazio, "Shortcut to Adiabaticity in the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick Model" (arXiv:1410.1555)
Andreas: Homodyne Detection
Andreas: Presentation of the paper
X.J.Lu, M.Palermo, A.Ruschhaupt, X. Chen and J.G.Muga, "Optimal transport of two ions under slow spring-constant drifts" - 9th October 2014 (Meeting 21)
Anthony: Report about his reseach stay and summer school at OIST - 28th August 2014 (Meeting 20)
- 22th August 2014 (Meeting 19)
- 28th July 2014 (Meeting 18)
- 24th July 2014 (Meeting 17)
Jukka Kiukas: Talk: Matrix product states for dynamical trajectories of Markovian open quantum systems - 23th June 2014 (Meeting 16)
Tom Dowdall: Presentation on general formalism of QM
Andreas: Report from work in OIST and of the Shanghai STA workshop - 22th May 2014 (Meeting 15)
- 15th May 2014 (Meeting 14)
- 8th May 2014 (Meeting 13)
- 1st May 2014 (Meeting 12)
- 24th April 2014 (Meeting 11)
- 21th March 2014 (Meeting 10)
- 14th March 2014 (Meeting 9)
- 7th March 2014 (Meeting 8)
- 28th February 2014 (Meeting 7)
- 21th February 2014 (Meeting 6)
Andreas: Lecture on the Quantum Trajectory Approach - 14th February 2014 (Meeting 5)
Anthony: Summary of a course on quantum optics and quantum information at Queen's University (Belfast) - 6th February 2014 (Meeting 4)
Anthony: Presentation of the paper
S.Deffner,C.Jarzynski, A.del Campo, "Classical and quantum shortcuts to adiabaticity for scale-invariant driving" (arXiv:1401.1184) - 30th January 2014 (Meeting 3)
Anthony: Presentation of the paper
R.Menchon-Enrich,S.McEndoo, J.Mompart, V.Ahufinger, Th.Busch, "Single-atom interferometer based on two-dimensional spatial adiabatic passage" (arXiv:1401.6072) - 16th January 2014 (Meeting 2)
Anthony: Presentation of the paper
R.Menchon-Enrich,S.McEndoo, J.Mompart, V.Ahufinger, Th.Busch, "Tunneling-induced angular momentum for single cold atoms" (arXiv:1401.0657) - 9th January 2014 (Meeting 1)
Justin McGuinness: Presentation of hos 4th year project
New Shortcuts to Adiabaticity in Systems Including a Magnetic field
Meeting Schedule 2013
- 5th December 2013 (Meeting 11)
Anthony: Presentation of the paper
S.Ibanez, S.Martinez-Garaot, Xi Chien, E.Torrontegui and J.G. Muga, "Shortcuts to adibaticity for non-Hermitian systems" (arXiv:1106.2776) - 28th November 2013 (Meeting 10)
Andreas: Presentation of the paper
D. Rao and K. Molmer, "Robust Rydberg interaction gates with adiabatic passage" (arXiv:1311.5147) - 21th November 2013 (Meeting 9)
Anthony: Presentation of the paper
P. M. Poggi, F. C. Lombardo and D. A. Wisniaki, "Quantum speed limit and optimal evolution time in a two level system" (arXiv:1308.1709) - 14th November 2013 (Meeting 8)
Andreas: Presentation of the paper
G. C. Hegerfeldt, "Driving at the quantum speed limit: Optimal control of a two-level system" (arXiv:1305.6403)
M. Herrera, M. S. Sarandy, E. I. Duzzioni and R. M. Serra, "Nonadiabatic quantum state engineering driven by fast quench dynamics" (arXiv:1310.5680)
U. Güngördü, Y. Wan, M. A. Fasihi and M. Nakahara, "Dynamical Invariants for Quantum Control of Four-Level Systems" (PRA 86, 062312 (2012)) - 7th November 2013 (Meeting 7)
Anthony: Presentation of the paper
David/Brian: Presentation of the paper
Anthony: Presentation of Section 2.2 of review about shortcuts
M. Lu, Y. Xia, L.-T. Shen, J. Song and N. Ba An, "Shortcuts to adiabatic passage for population transfer and maximal entanglement creation between two atoms in a cavity" (arXiv: 1310.5323)
S. Choi, R. Onofrio and B. Sundaram, "Ehrenfest Dynamics and Frictionless Cooling Methods" (arXiv:1310.0445) - 24th October 2013 (Meeting 6)
Andreas: Presentation of the paper
Anthony: Presentation of the paper
J. Jing, L-A Wu, M. S. Sarandy and J. G. Muga, "Inverse Engineering Control in Open Quantum Systems" (arXiv: 1307.0383)
S. Ibanez, X. Chen and J. G. Muga, "Improving shortcuts to adiabaticity by iterative interaction pictures" (Phys. Rev. A 87 (2013) 043402) - 17th October 2013 (Meeting 5)
Anthony: Presentation of the paper
Anthony: Talk about his project done in JapanM. Palmero, E. Torrontegui, D. Guery-Odelin and J. G. Muga, "Fast transport of two ions in an anharmonic trap" (arXiv:1309.5634) - 10th October 2013 (Meeting 4)
Andreas: Connection between three-level Hamiltonian and two-level Hamiltonian
A. del Campo, "Shortcuts to Adiabaticity by Counteradiabatic Driving" (Phys. Rev. Lett. 111 (2013) 100502) - 3rd October 2013 (Meeting 3)
Anthony: Presentation of the paper - 26th September 2013 (Meeting 2)
Andreas: Interaction Picture for three-level Hamiltonians - 19th September 2013 (Meeting 1)
Andreas: Presentation of the paper
A. Yuste, B. Julia-Diaz, E. Torrontegui, J. Martorell, J. G. Muga and A. Polls, "Shortcuts to adiabaticity in internal bosonic Josephson junctions" (arXiv:1309.2491)