We received blue paper towels today. Seems like a good reason to try and see if this account still works.

Here a short animation, showing the design of our two traps - the first one is our established Penning trap, the second one our new RF trap!

Christmas has come early in the ion trap group at Imperial - we've trapped ions in our new RF trap for the first time. Aren't they beautiful! 💕

New paper alert! Certifying Multilevel Coherence in the Motional State of a Trapped Ion 😎 journals.aps.org/prxquantum/pdf…

Congratulations to our safety officer Brian Willey for his recognition in the Provost's Awards for Excellence in Health & Safety! 🏆💯✨ blogs.imperial.ac.uk/senior-appoint…

I just found this timelapse video that we don't remember making on an old computer. youtu.be/UAT74hXbw5Y

NICE! Exeter Guild research on PGR wellbeing has made it into Times Higher Education #MentalHealthAwareness

The energy levels in the lab are always quite low after CCM football. Just as well that we received some Thorlabs lab snacks today.

The experiment actually worked yesterday for the first time in months. This means that I am in for a hellish day of disobedience today.

New Paper! Resolved-Sideband Laser Cooling in a Penning Trap journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…

In this paper we put a single particle in the quantum ground state of its motion, which had never previously been done in our kind of trap.

Videos of talks and music performances from our celebration of the life of Prof. Danny Segal are now on our website: imperial.ac.uk/ion-trapping/p…