Hartmut Haeffner

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/

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Artist’s rendition of quantum entanglement
July 21, 2020

UC Berkeley to lead $25 million quantum computing center

As part of the federal government’s effort to speed the development of quantum computers, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the University of California, Berkeley, $25 million over five years to establish a multi-university institute focused on advancing quantum science and engineering and training a future workforce to build and use quantum computers.
Graphic of earth's rotation in relation to sun.
January 28, 2015

Quantum computer as detector shows space is not squeezed

UC Berkeley physicists used partially entangled atoms identical to the qubits in a quantum computer to demonstrate more precisely than ever before – to one part in a billion billion – that space is uniform in all directions and not squeezed.

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