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1.6.2 Contributions of coworkers<br />

The results of Part I would not have existed without Kenneth Brown, who worked with me<br />

on the experiment and taught me a lot about quantum mechanics along the way. He did<br />

many of the same tasks that I did, and as I was just beginning graduate school at the time,<br />

taught me what I needed to know to then do them myself. A coworker for a very brief time,<br />

Matthias Steffen, introduced us to the NMR system.<br />

In Part II, when the Chuang group moved to ion trapping, the atomic ion trapping team<br />

included Kenneth Brown, Jaroslaw Labaziewicz, and David Leibrandt. These people were<br />

instrumental in the construction of the laser systems (especially Jaroslaw and Kenneth) and<br />

some of the vacuum apparatus (especially David and Kenneth) presented in Ch. 6. We owe<br />

the design of the first planar trap in that chapter to Christopher Pearson, and of the second<br />

to Jaroslaw. The work of Ch. 5 was done in conjunction with Kenneth and Tongyan Lin,<br />

who made the macroion measurements and worked with me on the analysis of that data.<br />

The cryostat apparatus in Ch. 7 was assembled with a lot of help from Paul Antohi, and<br />

the theory presented in the section was developed in detail by two undergraduates, Ziliang<br />

Lin and Kenan Diab, who I mentored in those efforts. Each also made some contributions<br />

to the experimental apparatus; Ziliang designed and built the optics delivery system that<br />

survived in modified form for the experiments of that chapter, while Kenan built some fine<br />

rf resonant circuits for driving the trap.<br />

The work in Part III relies heavily on the contributions of coworkers in Innsbruck. Tony<br />

Lee set up the laser systems, constructed the bulk of the vacuum chamber, and prepared<br />

sundry other experimental tools. We worked together to trap ions for the first time in that<br />

system, using a trap from our group at MIT. Subsequent experimental refurbishing and<br />

data collection was done by Nikos Daniilidis and Sankara Narayanan. In particular, Nikos<br />

fabricated the gold surface traps used in Chapter 9, in collaboration with Andreas Wallraff<br />

at ETH Zürich. After I departed, Sönke Möller joined the experimental effort, helping to<br />

obtain the data presented in this thesis.<br />

1.6.3 Publications included in this thesis<br />

Below is a list of articles that have already been published or submitted on the basis of this<br />

work. All but number 8 deal with work presented in this thesis.<br />

1) Ref. [BCC06] Limitations of quantum simulation examined by simulating a pairing<br />

Hamiltonian using nuclear magnetic resonance<br />

2) Ref. [BCL + 07] Loading and characterization of a printed-circuit-board atomic ion trap<br />

3) Ref. [LCL + 07] Laser ablation loading of a surface-electrode ion trap<br />

4) Ref. [CLBC09] A two-dimensional lattice ion trap for quantum simulation<br />

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