Title
Assistant Professor

Department
Dept of Physics


Faculty URL
http://physics.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/hartmut-haffner

Research Group
http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/haeffner/

Email
hhaeffner@berkeley.edu

Phone
(510) 664-4299


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Research Expertise and Interest
quantum information and computation, precision measurements, ion traps, quantum state engineering, decoherence, quantum simulations, quantum energy transport, quantum chaos, cryogenic electronics

Research Description
My main research interests focus on trapped ions to get a deeper understanding of quantum mechanics. Using laser light, strings of ions trapped with electrodynamical forces can be cooled to their motional ground state. Furthermore, the ions' internal electronic states can be initialized, manipulated and measured with high accuracy. This high degree of control offers exciting prospects to investigate quantum phenomena such as superpositions and entanglement both in atomic systems as well as in more complex systems.

For more information, please refer to the web-page: http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/haeffner/