The Ion Trap Group
Research Topics
We are a research group at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus with activities spanning various topics involving cold, trapped ions. The research can be divided into the following main subjects:
The group is headed by Professor Michael Drewsen.
Open Ph.D. position
We have an open Ph.D. position in cavity QED with ion crystals. For more information about this and other open positions, please look at the Positions page.
First PICC newsletter
The first newsletter of the PICC (Physics of Ion Coulomb Crystals) project has been released. It can be downloaded from here.
News
- For the first time EIT as well as all-optical EIT-based light switching using ion Coulomb crystals situated in an optical cavity has been demonstrated. The results are published in Nature Photonics:
- Molecular ions for the first time cooled to their lowest vibrational and rotational level using laser-based schemes. See article in Nature Physics.
- Research on the cover page of Nature Physics:
Funding
Currently, funding is provided by the Danish National Research Foundation, the Danish Natural Science Research Council the, the Carlsberg Foundation, the Lundbeck Foundation, as well as the EU Commision.
