Kyle McKay

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Crystallographic orientation dependence of work function: carbon adsorption on Au surfaces

April 14, 2019

Author(s)

Dustin A. Hite, Hossein Jooya, X Fan, Kyle S. McKay, David P. Pappas, H.R. Sadeghpour

We show in this work that the work function change due to carbon adatom adsorption is not predominantly affected by the crystallographic orientation of the gold

Mechanisms for carbon adsorption on Au(110)-(2 x 1): A work function analysis

July 17, 2018

Author(s)

Dustin A. Hite, Hossein Jooya, Kyle S. McKay, Eunja Kim, Philippe F. Weck, David P. Pappas, H.R. Sadeghpour

The variation of the work function upon carbon adsorption on the reconstructed Au(110) surface is measured experimentally and compared to density functional

Electric- field noise from carbon-adatom diffusion on a Au(110) surface: first-principles calculations and experiments

March 9, 2017

Author(s)

E. Kim, Arghavan Safavi-Naini, Kyle McKay, David P. Pappas, P.F Weck, H.R. Sadeghpour, Dustin Hite

The decoherence of trapped-ion quantum bits due to heating of their motional modes is a fundamental science and engineering problem. This heating is attributed

Measurements of trapped-ion heating rates with exchangeable surfaces in close proximity

January 15, 2017

Author(s)

Dustin A. Hite, Kyle S. McKay, Shlomi Salman Kotler, Dietrich G. Leibfried, David J. Wineland, David P. Pappas

Electric-field noise from the surfaces of ion-trap electrodes couples to the ions charge causing heating of the ions motional modes. This heating limits the

Micro-fabricated stylus ion trap

August 7, 2013

Author(s)

Kyle S. McKay, Christian L. Arrington, Ehren D. Baca, Jonathan J. Coleman, Yves Colombe, Patrick Finnegan, Dustin A. Hite, Andrew E. Hollowell, Robert Jordens, John D. Jost, Dietrich G. Leibfried, Adam M. Rowen, Ulrich J. Warring, David J. Wineland, David P. Pappas, Andrew C. Wilson

An electroformed, three-dimensional stylus Paul trap was designed to confine a single atomic ion for use as a sensor to probe the electric-field noise of

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