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- 20/02/2015: There is an excellent article today in The New York Times' Sunday Review by Edward Frenkel,
The Reality of Quantum Weirdness. I never thought I'd see our
quantum measurements and Kurosawa’s Rashomon in the same essay—love it!
- 12/02/2015: An utterly wonderful article by our co-author Eric Cavlacanti in The
Conversation today: Schrödinger’s cat gets a reality check. Definitely worth
the read! Postscript: the article has been picked up by
Australasian Science. Nice one Eric!
- 09/02/2015: For our German readers, a nice article today in Austria's ORF,
Schrödingers Katze ist tot und lebendig. This one illustrated with a heterochromic feline!
- 08/02/2015: The Register has a detailed article on our work by the ever estimable
Richard Chirgwin,
They've finally solved it: Schrödinger's cat is both ALIVE AND
DEAD—Objective reality, who needs it?. Graphics and everything!
- 04/02/2015: My goodness, our paper on the reality of the wavefunction has been reported today in both Russia—
Физики сообщили об объективной реальности волновой функции—and Bulgaria—
Изследователи описват вълновата функция на
котката на Шрьодингер. The illustration in the Bulgarian article made me laugh despite myself.
- 04/02/2015: A wonderful article in Motherboard today on our paper,
New Measurements Show that
the Unrealest Part of Quantum Physics Is Very Real, including a link to Matt Leifer's excellent website.
- 03/02/2015: And it continues. Another nice article in today's Phys.Org on our paper,
Researchers describe the wavefunction of Schroedinger's cat. Check it out!
- 02/02/2015: Whoa, that was quick-off-the-mark! New Scientist has an article today by Michael Slezak,
Wave function gets real in quantum experiment. A nice
introduction to it all, finishing off with a great quote by Howard Wiseman.
- 02/02/2015: Our paper on Measurements on the reality of the wavefunction
appeared today in Nature Physics. Congratulations Martin, Ben, Cyril, Eric and Alessandro!
- 28/01/2015: There is a truly excellent write-up of our quantum time-travel simulation at medium.com,
The Quantum Experiment That Simulates A Time
Machine. For those who prefer a more yellow version of the same article, have a look at
physics4me.
- 19/01/2015: Today is the official Opening Ceremony of the
International Year of Light at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) headquarters in Paris. There are 1500
delegates attending from around the world: Andrew is one of the two Australian invitees, and is quite looking forward to it!
- 05/01/2015: A very warm welcome to Nicolas Quesada who is visiting us for the next two
months from the University of Toronto. Welcome aboard Nicolas!
- 05/01/2015: What better way to start the year than announce that Nor Azwa Zakaria has joined the QT Lab from
the University of Malaysia Terengganu. Welcome Azwa!
- 01/01/2015: Happy New Year! Welcome to the International Year of Light *. For a great article on what it's
about, and how it came to be—basically down to the ever-irrepressible Antipodean John Dudley—have a look at this Optics & Photonics News
article, 2015: The
International Year of Light. Physics World also has an interesting, and shorter article,
Physicists get set for UNESCO's Year of
Light.
* "...and Light-Enabled Technologies", yeah, I know.
- 11/12/2014: Many congratulations to Martin Ringbauer, whose talk on "Measurements on the Reality of the Wavefunction" won the Prize for Best
Student Talk at the 21st Australian Institute of Physics Congress. Now that's the way to end the year!
- 07/11/2014: Our paper on Information Causality in the Quantum and
Post-Quantum Regime appeared today in Scientific Reports. Congratulations Martin, Alessandro, and Dominic!
- 19/09/2014: Warmest congratulations from us all to Markus Rambach, winner of the 2014 School of Mathematics and Physics Postgraduate Research
Poster Competition! Markus joins QT Lab alumni Matthew Broome and Ben Lanyon as recipients of the award, but his prize is the best yet: $750 to spend on your
next research trip—thoroughly well deserved and have fun with it Markus!
- 17/09/2014: Warmest congratulations from us all to Dr Alessandro Fedrizzi,
who last night was awarded the 2014
Foundational Research Excellence Award, one of just
seven winners across the entire University. Check out the
very nice video explaining the science behind his award. The night was fantastic fun, as were the drinks afterwards!
- 24/06/2014: The Register has a subheadline straight out of Treasure of Sierra Madre in their article
TIME TRAVEL TEST finds black holes needed
to make photons flit, and gizmag picks up the story as well,
Australian researchers simulate a time-traveling photon.
- 23/06/2014: Science Alert has improved our graphics considerably in their take on
Time Travel Simulated by Australian Physicists.
- 21/06/2014: An article in The Speaker,
Time Travel Simulated by Australian Physicists.
- 20/06/2014: And it begins! There are articles on our time-travel simulation paper in phys.org,
Simulating time travel: Doctor Who meets Professor Heisenberg,
iflscience.com,
Scientists Have Simulated Time Travel With Photons, and
inquisitr.com,
Researchers Simulate Time Travel Using Light.
- 19/06/2014: Our paper on Experimental simulation of closed
timelike curves appeared today in Nature Communications. Congratulations Martin, Matthew, Casey and Tim! The UQ press release can be found
here.
- 23/04/2014: Our paper on
Entanglement-free certification of entangling gates appeared today in Physical Review A.
It was a lot of fun, with many long discussions between theorist and experimentalist: congratulations Marcelo, Mile, Alessandro, Matthew and Tim!
- 10/04/2014: Our holonomic phase paper is one of four Editors
Suggestions in today's Physical Review Letters. These are papers chose to promote reading across fields, in the
hope that they will lead readers to explore other areas of physics. Congratulations again Juan, Matthew and Devin!
- 10/04/2014: Our paper on
Observation of Entanglement-Dependent Two-Particle Holonomic Phase appeared today in Physical Review Letters.
It's Juan Loredo's first—but certainly not the last!—experiment from our lab: congratulations and may there be many more!
- 05/02/2014: There's are more nice articles today on our uncertainty paper, in PhysOrg,
Research team challenges the limits of famous quantum principle, and in Laboratory Equipment,
Physicists Challenge Heisenberg.
- 24/01/2014: Juan Loredo's paper on
Polarimetric measurements of single-photon geometric phases appeared today in Physical Review A.
It's from work with his former group in Peru: nice one Juan!
- 22/01/2014: There articles today on our uncertainty paper in the
Wiener Zeitung,
Tiroler Tageszeitung,
and the
Austria Presse Agentur.
If you read German check them out out!
- 15/01/2014: Our joint-quantum-measurement paper is one of seven Editors
Suggestions in today's Physical Review Letters. These are papers chose to promote reading across fields, in the
hope that they will lead readers to explore other areas of physics. Congratulations again Martin, Devon, Cyril, Matthew and Alessandro!
- 15/01/2014: Our paper on
Experimental Joint Quantum Measurements with Minimum Uncertainty appeared today in Physical Review Letters.
It's Martin Ringbauer's first paper with our lab: congratulations and may there be many more!
- 15/01/2014: Our paper on
Experimental Joint Quantum Measurements with Minimum Uncertainty appeared today in Physical Review Letters.
It's Martin Ringbauer's first paper with our lab: congratulations and may there be many more!
- 01/01/2014: Happy New Year! For those of you who like round-number anniversaries, 2014 is a significant year for quantum information.
○ 50 years ago John Bell published his
famous inequality paper,
○ 30 years ago quantum cryptography was
invented by Bennett and Brassard,
○ 20 years ago—after a
long gestation—quantum computing was born with
Peter Shor's paper introducing a fast factoring algorithm.
- 04/12/2013: There's a great Viewpoint today by Christine Silberhorn on our new paper—and related papers by the groups of Gerd Leuchs
and Roman Schnabel— Sharing Entanglement without Sending It. Check it out!
- 04/12/2013: Our paper on
Experimental Distribution of Entanglement with Separable Carriers appeared today in Physical Review Letters.
Congratulations one and all!
- 15/07/2013: Our paper on
High-efficiency cross-phase modulation in a gas-filled waveguide appeared today in Physical Review A.
This is our first paper with Andre Luiten's amazing lab in Adelaide. Congratulations Chris, Phil, and the
rest of the team!
- 20/06/2013: Alán Aspuru-Guzik has noticed that our Quantum Chemistry paper is the
21st most cited paper in Nature Chemistry, according to the
Google Scholar H5 index. Not bad for a physics lab!
- 17/06/2013: Our photon-source paper is one of three Editors
Suggestions in today's Physical Review Letters. These are papers chose to promote reading across fields, in the
hope that they will lead readers to explore other areas of physics. Congratulations again Olivier and Marcelo!
- 17/06/2013: Our paper on Entangling Quantum-Logic
Gate Operated with an Ultrabright Semiconductor Single-Photon Source appeared today in Physical Review Letters.
This is our first paper with Pascale Senellart and her wonderful lab in Paris. Congratulations Olivier, Marcelo, and the
rest of the team!
- 14/06/2013: Today we bid a fond farewell to
Olivier Gazzano who is
returning to France to hand in his PhD. Thank you Olivier, we had a blast and come back anytime! (Also, don't let Marcelo
take you out drinking before your 22:30 flight ... oh, too late).
- 29/05/2013: Andrew was formally admitted today to the Australian Academy of Science during
Science at the Shine Dome 2013, and gave an
introductory lecture on
The Second Quantum Revolution.
- 29/05/2013: Our paper on
Direct characterization of linear-optical
networks appeared today in Optics Express. Congratulations Saleh, Matthew, Robert, Alessandro and Tim!
- 22/05/2013: There's a nice article at FQXI
Discord in the Quantum World that mentions—amongst many
other things—our experimental work on quantum discord. Surf on over and have a read!
- 16/05/2013: For those of you interesting in all things quantum computing, go read Scott Aaronson's blog post
D-Wave: Truth finally starts to emerge. The tl;dr version:
good news. It's finally possible—modulo some reasonable assumptions—to infer the presence of
entanglement in a D-Wave device, athough not what kind, or how much. bad news. D-Wave have showed no speed
advantage whatsoever for quantum annealing over classical simulated annealing. terrible news. D-Wave's egregious
hype is very destructive.
- 02/05/2013: Andrew provided comments to the ABC on the excellent paper by Sven Rogge and his team
published in Nature today, Positive spin in
quantum discovery. Congratulations Chunming, Sven and the rest of the team!
- 04/04/2013: Our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Peter Hoj, was on ABC Radio this morning reporting that
UQ Scientists receive Australian Academy of Science Fellowships. Have a listen! Andrew wants to note
that—despite the lede—no actual buckets of money are involved ... although he's not averse to some if folk are
feeling inclined that way.
- 31/03/2013: Congratulations to Alessandro Fedrizzi and former QT Lab Alumnus Kevin Resch for their paper in Nature Photonics,
Spectral compression of single photons. Very nice!
- 27/03/2013: Andrew is one of twenty new
Fellows of the Australian Academy of Sciences,
five of whom are from UQ. He's very thrilled and very humbled.
- 21/03/2013: The New York Times, has a nice article on things to do when you next visit our lab:
36 Hours in Brisbane, Australia.
- 15/01/2013: Congratulations to Matthew Broome for his paper in Nature Communications today,
Multiphoton quantum interference in a multiport integrated photonic device. Matt's coauthors include much-missed QT
Lab alumni Marco Barbieri and Nathan Langford, and the paper came out of a research trip to Ian Walmsley's wonderful
group in Oxford. Congratulations one and all!
- 08/01/2013: Edwin Cartlidge has a thoughtful piece in Physics World today,
'Boson sampling' offers shortcut to quantum computing. Surf on over and have a read!
- 03/01/2013: Many congratulations to Alessandro Fedrizzi for his recent paper in the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences,
Quantum erasure with causally disconnected choice. What a fabulous start to the year!
- 02/01/2013: Happy New Year! photonics.com has a report on our BosonSampling paper, with a title that the
Terminator folk should consider for the next film in the franchise:
Rise of the Boson-Sampling Computer.
- Older news can be found here.
