Publications
2026
"A metastable state in Yb+ with lifetime greater than 10 minutes" Hassan Farhat, William Liu, and Wesley C. Campbell arXiv:2609.09523 (2026)
"A broadband, individually addressing two- and three-dimensional photonic integrated circuit for trapped-ion qubit control" Daniel Klawson, Yiyang Zhi, Bingran You, Michael Bareian, Elijah Mossman, Chun-Yuan Fan, Arkadev Roy, Ke Sun, Jason Lee, Sung Cheol Yoon, Qiming Wu, Lai Jiang, Wenjun Ke, Weiwei Wu, Sirui Tang, Zachary Wall, Jiaxiang Wang, Louis Paul Romero, Sam Vizvary, Steven Diaz, Eric R. Hudson, Wesley C. Campbell, Hartmut Haeffner, Ming C. Wu arXiv:2607.25062 (2026)
"Suppression of differential light shifts in ground and metastable trapped-ion qubits" Drew Parks, Thomas Dellaert, Patrick McMillin, Conrad Roman, Wesley C. Campbell, and Andrei Derevianko Phys. Rev. A 114, 032810 (2026) [SI]
"Sub-hertz optical transitions in excited Yb+" Patrick McMillin, Hassan Farhat, William Liu, and Wesley C. Campbell Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 053002 (2026) [SI]
"Barium Autoionization for Efficient Ion Trap Loading" Zachary J. Wall, Justin D. Piel, Samuel R. Vizvary, Michael Bareian, Steven Diaz, Elijah Mossman, Anthony Ransford, Chris H. Greene, Eric R. Hudson, and Wesley C. Campbell Phys. Rev. A 114, 013102 (2026)
"Hyperfine spectroscopy of optical-cycling transitions in singly ionized thulium" Patrick Müller, Andrei Tretiakov, Amanda Younes, Nicole Halawani, Wesley C. Campbell, and Paul Hamilton Sci. Rep. 16, 10655 (2026)
"iSwitch: QEC on Demand via In-Situ Encoding of Bare Qubits for Ion Trap Architectures" Keyi Yin, Xiang Fang, Zhuo Chen, David Hayes, Eneet Kaur, Reza Nejabati, Hartmut Haeffner, Wes Campbell, Eric Hudson, Jens Palsberg, Travis Humble, Yufei Ding ASPLOS '26 2, 1007 (2026)
"Quantum gate dynamics beyond the rotating wave approximation using multitimescale quantum averaging theory" Kristian D. Barajas and Wesley C. Campbell Phys. Rev. A 113, L030403 (2026)
"Quantum averaging theory for multitimescale driven quantum systems" Kristian D. Barajas and Wesley C. Campbell Phys. Rev. A 113, 032210 (2026)
"Unraveling vibronic interactions in molecules functionalized with optical cycling centers" Paweł Wójcik, Haowen Zhou, Taras Khvorost, Guo-Zhu Zhu, Guanming Lao, Justin R. Caram, Anastassia N. Alexandrova, Eric R. Hudson, Wesley C. Campbell, Anna I. Krylov J. Chem. Phys. 164, 014306 (2026)
"Bottom-Up Approach to Making Larger Hydrocarbon Molecules Capable of Optical Cycling" Guanming Lao, Taras Khvorost, Antonio Macias Jr., Harry W. T. Morgan, Robert H. Lavroff, Ryan Choi, Haowen Zhou, Denis Usvyat, Guo-Zhu Zhu, Miguel A. García-Garibay, Anastassia N. Alexandrova, Eric R. Hudson, and Wesley C. Campbell Nat. Chem. 18, 84 (2026) [SI]
2025
"Angular Geometry of Atomic Multipole Transitions" Wesley C. Campbell arXiv:2510.07451 (2025)
"Vibronic coupling limits the use of high-lying electronic states in complex molecules for laser cooling" Haowen Zhou, Paweł Wójcik, Guo-Zhu Zhu, Guanming Lao, Taras Khvorost, Justin R. Caram, Wesley C. Campbell, Anastassia N. Alexandrova, Anna I. Krylov, and Eric R. Hudson Phys. Rev. Research 7, 043180 (2025)
"Internal state cooling of an atom with thermal light" Amanda Younes, Randall Putnam, Paul Hamilton, and Wesley C. Campbell Entropy 27, 222 (2025)
2024
"Absorption-Emission Codes for Atomic and Molecular Quantum Information Platforms" Shubham P. Jain, Eric R. Hudson, Wesley C. Campbell, and Victor V. Albert Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 260601 (2024) [SM]
"Photoswitching molecules functionalized with optical cycling centers provide a novel platform for studying chemical transformations in ultracold molecules" Paweł Wójcik, Taras Khvorost, Guanming Lao, Guo-Zhu Zhu, Antonio Macias Jr, Justin R. Caram, Wesley C. Campbell, Miguel A. García-Garibay, Eric R. Hudson, Anastassia N. Alexandrova, and Anna I. Krylov. J. Phys. Chem. A 129, 1929 (2024) [Cover art]
"Toward liquid cell quantum sensing: Ytterbium complexes with ultra-narrow absorption" Ashley J. Shin, Changling Zhao, Yi Shen, Claire E. Dickerson, Barry Li, Hootan Roshandel, Daniel Bím, Timothy L. Atallah, Paul H. Oyala, Yongjia He, Lianne K. Alson, Tyler A. Kerr, Anastassia N. Alexandrova, Paula L. Diaconescu, Wesley C. Campbell, Justin R. Caram. Science 385, 651 (2024) [SM]
"Eliminating Qubit-Type Cross-Talk in the omg Protocol" Samuel R. Vizvary, Zachary J. Wall, Matthew J. Boguslawski, Michael Bareian, Andrei Derevianko, Wesley C. Campbell, and Eric R. Hudson. Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 263201 (2024) [SM]
"Impulsive Spin-Motion Entanglement for Fast Quantum Computation and Sensing" Randall Putnam, Adam D. West, Wesley C. Campbell, and Paul Hamilton. Phys. Rev. A 109, 032614 (2024)
"Laser-type cooling with unfiltered sunlight" Amanda Younes and Wesley C. Campbell. Phys. Rev. E 109, 034109 (2024)
"Extending the large molecule limit: The role of Fermi resonance in developing a quantum functional group" Guo-Zhu Zhu, Guanming Lao, Claire E. Dickerson, Justin R. Caram, Wesley C. Campbell, Anastassia N. Alexandrova, and Eric R. Hudson. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 15, 590 (2024)
2023
"Raman Scattering Errors in Stimulated-Raman-Induced Logic Gates in 133Ba+" Matthew J. Boguslawski, Zachary J. Wall, Samuel R. Vizvary, Isam Daniel Moore, Michael Bareian, David T. C. Allcock, David J. Wineland, Eric R. Hudson, and Wesley C. Campbell. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 063001 (2023) [SI]
"Quantum error correction with metastable states of trapped ions using erasure conversion" Mingyu Kang, Wesley C. Campbell, and Kenneth R. Brown. PRX Quantum 4, 020358 (2023)
"Photon scattering errors during stimulated Raman transitions in trapped-ion qubits" I.D. Moore, W.C. Campbell, E.R. Hudson, M.J. Boguslawski, D.J. Wineland, and D.T.C. Allcock. Phys. Rev. A 107, 032413 (2023)
2022
"Polyqubit quantum processing" Wesley C. Campbell and Eric R. Hudson. arXiv:2210.15484 (2022)
"Laser spectroscopy of aromatic molecules with optical cycling centers: strontium (I) phenoxides" Guanming Lao, Guo-Zhu Zhu, Claire E. Dickerson, Benjamin L. Augenbraun, Anastassia N. Alexandrova, Justin R. Caram, Eric R. Hudson, Wesley C. Campbell. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 13, 11029 (2022)
"Pathway Toward Optical Cycling and Laser Cooling of Functionalized Arenes" Debayan Mitra, Zack D. Lasner, Guo-Zhu Zhu, Claire E. Dickerson, Benjamin L. Augenbraun, Austin D. Bailey, Anastassia N. Alexandrova, Wesley C. Campbell, Justin R. Caram, Eric R. Hudson, and John M. Doyle. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 13, 7029 (2022)
"Functionalizing aromatic compounds with optical cycling centers" Guo-Zhu Zhu, Debayan Mitra, Benjamin L. Augenbraun, Claire E. Dickerson, Michael J. Frim, Guanming Lao, Zack D. Lasner, Anastassia N. Alexandrova, Wesley C. Campbell, Justin R. Caram, John M. Doyle, and Eric R. Hudson. Nat. Chem. 14, 995 (2022)
"Photon spin molasses for laser cooling molecular rotation" W. C. Campbell and B. L. Augenbraun. J. Mol. Spectrosc. 385, 111596 (2022)
"High-resolution laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy of 28Si16O+ and 29Si16O+ in a cryogenic buffer-gas cell" Guo-Zhu Zhu, Guanming Lao, Clayton Ho, Wesley C. Campbell, and Eric R. Hudson. J. Mol. Spectrosc. 384, 111582 (2022)
2021
"Weak dissipation for high fidelity qubit state preparation and measurement" Anthony Ransford, Conrad Roman, Thomas Dellaert, Patrick McMillin, and Wesley C. Campbell. Phys. Rev. A 104, L060402 (2021) [SI]
"Quantum Gates Robust to Secular Amplitude Drifts," Qile David Su, Robijn Bruinsma, and Wesley C Campbell. Phys. Rev. A 104, 052625 (2021)
"omg Blueprint for trapped ion quantum computing with metastable states," D.T.C. Allcock, W.C. Campbell, J. Chiaverini, I.L. Chuang, E.R. Hudson, I.D. Moore, A. Ransford, C. Roman, J.M. Sage, and D.J. Wineland. Appl. Phys. Lett. 119, 214002 (2021)
"Determining Reaction Pathways at Low Temperatures by Isotopic Substitution: The Case of BeD+ + H2O," Tiangang Yang, Bin Zhao, Gary K. Chen, Hua Guo, Wesley C. Campbell, and Eric R. Hudson. New J. Phys. 23, 115004 (2021)
"Laserless quantum gates for electric dipoles in thermal motion," Eric R Hudson and Wesley C Campbell. Phys. Rev. A 104, 042605 (2021)
"Optical Cycling Functionalization of Arenes," Claire Dickerson, Han Guo, Guo-Zhu Zhu, Eric R Hudson, Justin Caram, Wesley C Campbell, and Anastassia Alexandrova. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 12, 3989 (2021)
"Programmable Quantum Simulations of Spin Systems with Trapped Ions," C. Monroe, W. C. Campbell, L.-M. Duan, Z.-X. Gong, A. V. Gorshkov, P. Hess, R. Islam, K. Kim, G. Pagano, P. Richerme, C. Senko, N. Y. Yao. Rev. Mod. Phys. 93, 025001 (2021)
"Franck-Condon tuning of optical cycling centers by organic functionalization," Claire E. Dickerson, Han Guo, Ashley J. Shin, Benjamin L. Augenbraun, Justin R. Caram, Wesley C. Campbell, and Anastassia N. Alexandrova. Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 123002 (2021) [SI]
"Tunable transverse spin-motion coupling for quantum information processing," Adam D West, Randall Putnam, Wesley C Campbell, and Paul Hamilton. Quantum Science and Technology 6, 024003 (2021)
"Isomer-specific kinetics of the C+ + H2O reaction at the temperature of interstellar clouds," Tiangang Yang, Anyang Li, Gary Chen, Qian Yao, Arthur G. Suits, Hua Guo, Eric R. Hudson, and Wesley C. Campbell. Science Advances 7, eabe4080 (2021) [SM]
"Surface Chemical Trapping of Optical Cycling Centers," Han Guo, Claire E Dickerson, Ashley J. Shin, Changling Zhao, Timothy L. Atallah, Justin R. Caram, Wesley C. Campbell, and Anastassia N. Alexandrova. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 23, 211 (2021) [SI]
2020
"Dipole-phonon quantum logic with alkaline-earth monoxide and monosulfide cations," Michael Mills, Hao Wu, Evan C. Reed, Lu Qi, Kenneth R. Brown, Christian Schneider, Michael C. Heaven, Wesley C. Campbell, and Eric R. Hudson. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 22, 24964 (2020) [SI]
"Application of a self-injection locked cyan laser for Barium ion cooling and spectroscopy," Anatoliy A. Savchenkov, Justin E. Christensen, David Hucul, Wesley C. Campbell, Eric R. Hudson, Skip Williams, and Andrey B. Matsko. Scientific Reports 10, 16494 (2020)
"Dipole-phonon quantum logic with trapped polar molecular ions," Wesley C. Campbell and Eric R. Hudson. Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 120501 (2020)
"Certified quantum gates," Wesley C. Campbell. Phys. Rev. A 102, 022426 (2020)
"Hyperfine structure of 173Yb+: Toward resolving the 173Yb nuclear-octupole-moment puzzle," Di Xiao, Jiguang Li, Wesley C. Campbell, Thomas Dellaert, Patrick McMillin, Anthony Ransford, Conrad Roman, and Andrei Derevianko. Phys. Rev. A 102, 022810 (2020)
"Coherent control for qubit state readout," Conrad Roman, Anthony Ransford, Michael Ip, and Wesley C. Campbell. New J. Phys. 22, 073038 (2020)
"High-fidelity
manipulation of a qubit enabled by a manufactured nucleus," Justin E. Christensen, David Hucul, Wesley C. Campbell,
and Eric
R. Hudson. npj
Quantum Information 6, 35 (2020) [SI]
- Physicists develop world's best quantum bits (Physics World, Stuart Wolpert)
- "Goldilocks Ion" - UCLA Physicists Develop World's Best Quantum Bits (Quantum Zeitgeist)
- Physicists create world's completely quantum bits (Rajasthan Coverage)
2019
"Suppressed spontaneous emission for coherent momentum transfer," Xueping Long, Seejia S. Yu, Andrew M. Jayich, and Wesley C. Campbell. Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 033603 (2019) [SI]
"Isotope-selective chemistry in the Be+(2S1/2) + HOD → BeOD+/BeOH+ + H/D reaction," Gary K. Chen, Changjian Xie, Tiangang Yang, Anyang Li, Arthur G. Suits, Eric R. Hudson, Wesley C. Campbell and Hua Guo. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 21, 14005 (2019)
2018
"Dipolar quantum logic for freely rotating trapped molecular ions," Eric R. Hudson and Wesley C. Campbell. Phys. Rev. A 98, 040302(R) (2018)
"Phonon lasing from optical frequency comb illumination of trapped ions," Michael Ip, Anthony Ransford, Andrew M. Jayich, Xueping Long, Conrad Roman, and Wesley C. Campbell. Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 043201 (2018) [SI]
"Optical Control of Reactions between Water and Laser-Cooled Be+ Ions," Tiangang Yang, Anyang Li, Gary K. Chen, Changjian Xie, Arthur G. Suits, Wesley C. Campbell, Hua Guo, and Eric R. Hudson. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9, 3555 (2018) [SI]
"Bloom syndrome: research and data priorities for the development of precision medicine as identified by some affected families," Mary Beth Campbell, Wesley C. Campbell, James Rogers, Natalie Rogers, Zachary Rogers, Anne Marie van den Hurk, Annie Webb, Talon Webb, and Paul Zaslaw. Cold Spring Harb Mol Case Stud 4, a002816 (2018)
"Displacement operators: the classical face of their quantum phase," Amar C. Vutha, Eliot A. Bohr, Anthony Ransford, Wesley C. Campbell, Paul Hamilton. Eur. J Phys. 39, 025405 (2018)
2017
"Spectroscopy of a Synthetic Trapped Ion Qubit," David Hucul, Justin E. Christensen, Eric R. Hudson, and Wesley C. Campbell.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119,
100501 (2017)
- Radioactive Qubits (Synopsis in Physics, Michael Schirber)
- Физики создали кубит из радиоактивного изотопа бария (Alexander Dubov, n+1)
"Methods, analysis, and the treatment of systematic errors for the electron electric dipole moment search in thorium monoxide,"
(the ACME Collaboration): J. Baron, W. C. Campbell, D. DeMille, J. M. Doyle, G. Gabrielse, Y. V. Gurevich, P. W. Hess, N. R. Hutzler,
E. Kirilov, I. Kozyryev, B. R. O'Leary, C. D. Panda, M. F. Parsons, B. Spaun, A. C. Vutha, A. D. West, E. P. West and ACME collaboration.
New J. Phys. 19, 073029 (2017)
"Rotation sensing with trapped ions," W. C. Campbell and P. Hamilton. J. Phys.
B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 50, 064002 (2017)
- Rotation sensor could be made from interfering ions (Physics World, Sarah Tesh)
- Matter wave gyroscope could offer precise direction in absence of GPS signal (IOP)
2016
"Direct Frequency Comb Laser Cooling and Trapping," A. M. Jayich, X. Long, and W. C. Campbell. Phys.
Rev. X 6, 041004 (2016) [SI]
- Cold Results from Fast Lasers (APS Viewpoint, J. F. Barry)
- Physicists use multicolored laser light to study atoms critical to medicine (various news aggregators, by Katherine Kornei and Stuart Wolpert)
- Frequency comb traps and cools atoms (Physics World, Sophia Chen)
2015
Creation of two-dimensional coulomb crystals of ions in oblate Paul traps for quantum simulations," Bryce Yoshimura, Marybeth Stork, Danilo Dadic, W. C. Campbell, J. K. Freericks. EPJ Quantum Technology 2, 2 (2015)
2014
"Diabatic-ramping spectroscopy of many-body excited states," B. Yoshimura, W. C. Campbell, and J. K. Freericks. Phys. Rev. A 90, 062334 (2014) [Erratum]
"Quantum Simulation of Spin Models with Trapped Ions," C. Monroe, W. C. Campbell, E. E. Edwards, R. Islam, D. Kafri, S. Korenblit, A. Lee, P. Richerme, C. Senko, and J. Smith. Proceedings of the International School 'Enrico Fermi,' Course 189: Ion Traps for Tomorrow's Applications, Edited by M. Knoop, I. Marzoli, and G. Morigi (2014)
"Coherent Imaging Spectroscopy of a Quantum Many-Body Spin System," C. Senko, J. Smith, P. Richerme, A. Lee, W. C. Campbell, and C. Monroe.
Science
345, 430 (2014) [SI]
"Continuous all-optical deceleration and single-photon cooling of molecular beams," A. M. Jayich, A. C. Vutha, M.T. Hummon, J.V. Porto, and W.C. Campbell. Phys. Rev. A 89, 023425 (2014)
"Quantum Control of Qubits and Atomic Motion Using Ultrafast Laser Pulses," J. Mizrahi, B. Neyenhuis, K. Johnson, W. C. Campbell, C. Senko, D. Hayes, and C. Monroe. Applied Phys. B 114, 45 (2014)
"Order of Magnitude Smaller Limit on the Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron," The ACME Collaboration: J. Baron, W. C. Campbell, D. DeMille,
J. M. Doyle, G. Gabrielse, Y. V. Gurevich, P. W. Hess, N. R. Hutzler, E. Kirilov, I. Kozyryev, B. R. O'Leary, C. D. Panda, M. F. Parsons,
E. S. Petrik, B. Spaun, A. C. Vutha, and
A. D. West. Science
343, 269 (2014) [SI]
- Probing the Electron (ibid., Perspective by Ken Brown)
- Surprising upper limit on the electron's electric dipole moment (Physics Today, Bertram M. Swarzschild)
"Beat note stabilization of mode-locked lasers for quantum information processing," R. Islam, W. C. Campbell, T. Choi, S. M. Clark, C. W. S. Conover, S. Debnath, E. E. Edwards, B. Fields, D. Hayes, D. Hucul, I. V. Inlek, K. G. Johnson, S. Korenblit, A. Lee, K. W. Lee, T. A. Manning, D. N. Matsukevich, J. Mizrahi, Q. Quraishi, C. Senko, J. Smith, C. Monroe. Optics Letters 39, 3238 (2014)
2013
"Quantum Networks with Atoms and Photons," C. Monroe, W. Campbell, C. Cao, T. Choi, S. Clark, S. Debnath, C. Figgatt, D. Hayes, D. Hucul, V. Inlek, R. Islam, S. Korenblit, K. Johnson, A. Manning, J. Mizrahi, B. Neyenhuis, A. Lee, P. Richerme, C. Senko, J. Smith, and K. Wright. J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 467, 012008 (2013)
"Quantum Catalysis of Magnetic Phase Transitions in a Quantum Simulator," P. Richerme, C. Senko, S. Korenblit, J. Smith, A. Lee, R. Islam, W. C. Campbell, and C. Monroe. Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 100506 (2013)
"Shot-noise-limited spin measurements in a pulsed molecular beam," E. Kirilov, W. C. Campbell, J. M. Doyle, G. Gabrielse, Y. V. Gurevich, P. W. Hess, N. R. Hutzler, B. R. O'Leary, E. Petrik, B. Spaun, A. C. Vutha, and D. DeMille. Phys. Rev. A 88, 013844 (2013)
"Emergence and Frustration of Magnetism with Variable-Range Interactions in a Quantum Simulator," R. Islam, C. Senko, W. C. Campbell, S. Korenblit,
J. Smith, A. Lee, E. E. Edwards, C.-C. J. Wang,
J. K. Freericks, and
C. Monroe. Science
340, 583 (2013) [SI]
"Ultrafast Spin-Motion Entanglement and Interferometry with a Single Atom," J. Mizrahi, C. Senko, B. Neyenhuis, K. G. Johnson, W. C. Campbell, C. W. S. Conover,
and C. Monroe. Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 203001 (2013)
2012
"Quantum Simulation of Spin Models on an Arbitrary Lattice with Trapped Ions," S. Korenblit, D. Kafri, W. C. Campbell, R. Islam, E. E. Edwards, Z.-X. Gong, G.-D.Lin, L.-M. Duan, J. Kim, K. Kim, and C. Monroe. New J. Phys. 14, 095024 (2012)
Publications before 2012 can be found here.
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Transitions in Yb+ for Quantum Information
and Precision Measurement,
Patrick J. McMillin,
2025
A New Tool for Cold Ion-Molecule Chemistry, Gary Kai-Juei Chen, 2019
A New Tool for Preparing Ultracold Atoms and Molecules, Xueping Long, 2019
Laser cooling Yb+ ions with an optical frequency comb, Michael Ip, 2018
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