Progress in Quantum Information Processing with Trapped Ions at NIST

This talk will provide an overview of the progress in quantum information processing (QIP) with trapped ions at NIST. In particular, improvements of ion transport and cooling within a scalable architecture for QIP, experiments entangling the internal states of ions held in separate trapping wells and the realization of Bell-state pumping, where an entangled steady-state of two ions emerges as the result of partly dissipative interactions, will be discussed.\\[4pt] For the recent work done at NIST I gratefully acknowledge important contributions by David Allcock, Jim Bergquist, Brad Blakestad, Shaun Burd, John Bollinger, Ryan Bowler, Sam Brewer, Joe Britton, Kenton Brown, Jwo-Sy Chen, James Chou, Shon Cook, Yves Colombe, Dustin Hite, Wayne Itano, Robert Joerdens, John Jost, Emanuel Knill, Shlomi Kotler, David Leibrandt, Yiheng Lin, Katherine McCormick, Kyle McKay, Christian Ospelkaus, David Pappas, Daniel Slichter, Brian Saywer, Ting Rei Tan, Andrew Wilson, David Wineland and funding by DARPA, IARPA, ARO, ONR and the NIST Quantum Information Program.