PhD Theses

List of PhD Theses

2010s

• Sideband Cooling of Ion Coulomb Crystals in a Penning Trap, Vincent Jarlaud (2018)

• Coherent Dynamics of Trapped Ions Within and Outside the Lamb-Dicke Regime, Manoj Joshi (2018)

• Ground State Cooling of the Radial Motion of a Single Ion in a Penning Trap and Coherent Manipulation of Small Numbers of Ions, Pavel Hrmo (2018)

• Probing qubit memory errors at the 10⁻⁵ level, James Tarlton (2018) (Based at Oxford)

• Quantum Dynamics of Small Numbers of Ions in a Penning Trap, Graham Stutter (2016)

• Sideband Cooling to the Quantum Ground State in a Penning Trap, Joseph Francis Goodwin (2015)

• Motional Sideband Spectra and Coulomb Crystals in a Penning Trap, Sandeep Mavadia (2013)

• Towards Sideband Cooling of a SIngle 40Ca⁺ Ion in a Penning Trap, Sean Donnellan (2011)

• Towards Laser Spectroscopy of Highly Charged Ions, Shailen Bharadia (2011)

2000s

• Manipulation of Individual Laser Cooled Ca⁺ Ions in Penning Traps, Daniel R. Crick (2009)

• Single Ca⁺ Ions in a Penning Trap for Applications in Quantum Info Processing, Hamid Ohadi (2008)

• 88Sr⁺ Ion Trapping Techniques and Technologies for QIP, Michael Brownnutt (2007) (based at NPL)

• Ultrastable High Finesse Cavities for Laser Frequency Stabilization, Sarika Pugla (2007) (based at NPL)

• Design, Development and Operation of Novel Ion Trap Geometries, José Rafael Castrejón-Pita (2007)

• Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Laser-Cooled Ca⁺ Ions in a Penning Trap, Richard James Hendricks (2006)

• Optical Frequency Measurement and Ground State Cooling of Single Trapped Yb⁺ Ion, Peter Blythe (2005) (based at NPL)

• Controlled Dynamics of Laser-Cooled Ions in a Penning Trap, Eoin Seymour Gwyn Phillips (2004)

• Coherent Control and Ground State Cooling of a Single 88Sr⁺ Ion, Valliappan Letchumanan (2004) (based at NPL)

• Studies of Laser Cooled Calcium Ions in the Penning and Combined Traps,  Jake Sudbery (2003)

• Laser Cooling and Trapping of Ca⁺ ions in a Penning Trap,Jenn Liam Kingston Koo (2003)

• Quantum Optics with a Single Trapped Ion, Hebe Frances Powell (2002)