Postdoctoral Fellow (PREP0004238)
The work will entail:
• The candidate will work in a team on implementing basic building blocks of scalable quantum information processing with mixed species trapped ions.
Key responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
• Work with a team made up of NIST permanent staff members, postdoctoral scholars and graduate students to
• upgrade existing apparatus
• plan and build new parts of the apparatus
• implement and evaluate experiments
• disseminate results of experiments through publication in journals and presentations.
Qualifications
• U.S. Citizen Preferred
• PhD degree in physics or equivalent degree from a foreign university.
• Experience in experimental design and execution of experimental work in an atomic physics laboratory.
• Good understanding of laser technology and nonlinear frequency conversion.
Key responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
Qualifications:
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