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23/07/2010: Well that was difficult! The posters at QCMC were simply superb, and after much discussion the judges came back to the Centres to ask for two prizes. It was Andrew's great pleasure to award these this afternoon to Stuart Szigeti and Stefanie Barz—many congratulations to you both!
19/07/2010: The Tenth International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computation—QCMC to its friends—begins today at the University of Queensland. On behalf of both EQuS and CQC²T we're pleased to announce a Student Poster Prize for best presented and explained poster. We wish to stress that none of us are judges for the prize—or indeed organisers of the conference—so all bribes, compliments, complaints should be directed elsewhere ... see you at the poster sessions!
16/07/2010: Wonderful news for quantum science and optical science in Australia: seven years of funding was announced today for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems. Time to update the logos on our webpages! Many, many, congratulations to all involved, and heartfelt commiserations for our colleagues in the Australian Centre for Quantum-Atom-Optics. For funding junkies, here is the full selection report.
24/05/2010: Congratulations to Ben Lanyon who is a winner of the 2009 Dean's Awards List for Outstanding Research Higher Degree Theses. Very well deserved, and you can shout us all a drink the next time you're in town!
24/05/2010: Andrew was interviewed by Simon Lauder in The World Today, A few atoms bring quantum computing closer, about a nice paper published today by Michelle Simmons and her group in Nature Nanotechnology. For the very definition of eloquent, listen to his reaction when asked if this paper shows that the silicon approach is the one to put your money on (to be fair, he'd only had 2 hours sleep at that stage...)
11/05/2010: Our paper on quantum walks was featured in the Faculty of Science Photo of the Week, Photon Goes on Quantum Walk-about. Nice photo Matt! And scrolling down (insect, insect, insect ...) we found that we were also photo of the week back in January, Quantum Computer used to calculate the precise energy of molecular hydrogen.
16/04/2010: Our paper on Discrete single-photon quantum walks with tunable decoherence was published today in Physical Review Letters. Congratulations Matthew on your first first-author paper—and in PRL no less—may there be many more to come!
15/04/2010: Our quantum chemistry has been highlighted as one of the Editors' favourite articles from the first year of Nature Chemistry:

In fact, it was the only article highlighted for February! All the articles are free until the end of June, so if you haven't done so, go download it now.
13/04/2010: Andrew was named one of thirty-one Prestige Fellows at the University of Queensland in a ceremony tonight. Unfortunately he missed the celebration due to a particularly recalcitrant toddler—such is life!
10/04/2010: Andrew and Gerard Milburn were both in today's wonderful Science Show on Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. As always, Robyn Williams does an incomparably good job—well worth a listen!
15/03/2010: Our quantum chemistry work is one of 40 featured abstracts on the images page of the American Physical Society March Meeting! This is the largest Physics conference in the world, with over 7500 presentations, 10,000 attendees, and 42 parallel sessions this morning alone. Congratulations team!
26/02/2010: Our paper on Experimental feedback control of quantum systems using weak measurements was published today in Physical Review Letters. Congratulations one and all ... at last!
10/02/2010: There's a writeup of our work at the Italian science blog Science Backstage, Calcolo fotonico. Meraviglioso!
03/02/2010: And today we're in the Tehran Times, Engineering the Computer of the future, one atom at a time. Hello to our Iranian readers!
02/02/2010: Heh. There's an article by Nick Farrell in the Inquirer, Quantum computers aim to map reality . I love the fact that they make James sound like Baldrick: "James Whitfield ... has a cunning plan".
01/02/2010: Charles Choi has an article in MSNBC, Quantum computer simulates molecular reality.
28/01/2010: Gosh, on the day Apple announces their iPad, we made Wired! Charles Petit's article Quantum Computer Simulates Hydrogen Molecule Just Right is up now in Wired Science.
27/01/2010: There's an article on our work in the Indian Business magazine domain-b.com, Queensland University's quantum computers make light work of Harvard's chemistry.
22/01/2010: A wonderful article in the US magazine Science News, by Charles Petit, Quantum computer simulates hydrogen molecule just right. The bit about calcite at the end is a bit of a long bow, but still!
21/01/2010: Goodness! There are articles on our Quantum Chemistry work in Chinese on cnBeta.com, 用量子计算机做大学习题, and in Israeli in the Hayadan, מחשב קוונטי לחישוב האנרגיה של מימן. Although the team speak and read seven languages between us, they don't (yet) include Mandarin or Hebrew, so we've no idea what the articles actually say!
20/01/2010: In the Oxford Science Blog, there's a fun interview by Pete Wilton of Jacob Biamonte, Quantum simulators & super civilisations.
19/01/2010: Hamish Johnston has a great article in Physics World, Quantum computer takes on quantum chemistry. The diagram is particularly nice!

17/01/2010: We've made the Mexican press, with an article at Milenio, Una computadora cuántica ya hizo cálculos. Alán translated his favourite part of the article for us:

The Australians! Wasn't that island an almost depopulated prison colony of England, when Mexico, still called New Spain, was proud of its Royal University, of scientists and researchers informed in physics and chemistry of the state of the art of the XVIII-th century?

A big cheery g'day from all us convicts to our Mexican readers! (Seriously though, our teams were funded by both the Australian and US governments, and are made up of folk from 8 nations across 4 continents: Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Iran, Italy, Mexico, the UK and the USA. Science is truly international.)

16/01/2010: The Palestine Telegraph has run Andy Extance's article in its Panorama Section.
15/01/2010: Andy Extance has a great article at Chemistry World, Quantum computer hits hydrogen bullseye. What a wonderful title! However Andrew wishes to say that he didn't concede, so much as stress, that a system with 522 gates isn't currently possible...
14/01/2010: Science Daily cover our press release, Quantum computer calculates exact energy of molecular hydrogen.
13/01/2010: There's a great article today at Ars Technica by Casey Johnston, Two-qubit quantum system used to model the hydrogen molecule, and a version of one of the press releases at chemie.de, Quantum computer calculates exact energy of molecular hydrogen.
12/01/2010: Popsci have a nice article by Clay Dillow, Quantum Computer Successfully Calculates Exact Energy of Molecular Hydrogen.
12/01/2010: Here's an article with a different slant on our work, by Darren Pauli in Computerworld, Aussie quantum experiment challenges Einstein, computer science.
11/01/2010: There's a nice and thoughtful article today in New Scientist by Colin Barras, Quantum computers do chemistry.
11/01/2010: Julie Barzilay has written a great article in The Harvard Crimson, Scientists Employ Quantum Computer; there's a report based on the Harvard press release in the Harvard Gazette, Quantum (not digital) computing; and our work—wth a lovely photo of Alán— has made Harvard's main page. Nice one!
11/01/2010: Goodness: there are reports on our Quantum Chemistry experiment at Nanowerk, eScience News, Softpedia, Next Big Future, Innovations Report, Yahoo News, Azonano and RedOrbit.
11/01/2010: Well that was quick! Today's PhysOrg has an article on our recent quantum chemistry experiment: Quantum Computer Measures Energy in Molecular Hydrogen.
11/01/2010: Our paper on Towards quantum chemistry on a quantum computer was published today in Nature Chemistry as an Advanced Online Publication. Nice job everyone!
02/01/2010: The 10 Biggest Questions in Physics was broadcast today as part of Quirks and Quarks holiday offerings. Andrew hasn't had a chance to listen yet, but is bravely putting up the link anyhow... Update. Oh, that was fun! There was a pretty clear division between big questions about big things and big questions about small things...
01/01/2010: Happy New Year! Farewell to two-thousand-and-nine and welcome to twenty-ten.
19/12/2009: Stop reading this and go read Scott Aaronson's blog post, Hopefully my last D-Wave post ever. Go on, you won't be sorry!
16/12/2009: Alessandro's paper on Discrete Tunable Color Entanglement—done at the University of Vienna—was published today in Physical Review Letters. It's also been highlighted in a Physics Update in Physics Today. Nice one Alessandro!
04/12/2009: The Australian Academy of Science have awarded Andrew the 2010 Pawsey Medal for outstanding research in physics. He's deeply humbled, and very thankful to all his past and current colleagues for the chance to work with them on some really wonderful science!
02/12/2009: Andrew gave a Plenary today at the combined 2009 ACOLS and ACOFT conferences. It was lots of fun—hopefully the fibre-optic folk weren't too bored!
30/11/2009: After nearly 4 years, Benjamin Lanyon is leaving us to join Rainer Blatt as a Postdoctoral Scientist in the Institut für Experimental Physik at Universität Innsbruck. The very best of British to you Ben! We're a little unsure how we'll cope with all the extra office space and silence ... so please come back soon! (And remember, we're holding your surfboard hostage).
30/10/2009: Perimeter Institute has signed an agreement with the Universities of Queensland and Sydney, and Griffith University, to strengthen collaborative research in quantum foundations. Excellent, extra theorists to bother!
28/10/2009: Our paper on Anti-symmetrisation reveals hidden entanglement was published today in the New Journal of Physics. It's also been selected for inclusion in IOP Select— that's twice in one month! Nice work Alessandro, Marco, and Thomas!
20/10/2009: Ben Lanyon, or as I should now say, Doctor Ben Lanyon was awarded his PhD today. Many congratulations Ben, it is thoroughly well deserved!
17/10/2009: Tonight is the Canadian premiere of The Quantum Tamers, a documentary sponsored by the Perimeter Institute that features a dozen or so quantum folk from around the world, including our very own Gerard Milburn and Andrew—who are both waiting to see the film with some trepidation! Update. It was both fun and good! Whew, now for some drinks...
17/10/2009: For the Institute of Quantum Computing's open day, Andrew was part of a 6-person panel discussion on Quantum Information. A big thanks to Joseph Emerson for great moderation, film-clip DJ'ing and audience interaction.
15/10/2009: As part of the Perimeter Institute's 10th anniversary celebrations, Andrew was one of a 7-person panel discussing "Quantum to Cosmos", at the Mike Lazaridis Theatre in Waterloo. It was recorded by TVO and webcast. A big thanks to Australia's own Wilson da Silva for MC'ing, although he could have spared Andrew the "Crocodile Dundee" reference!
15/10/2009: Andrew was one of a 10-person panel discussing "The 10 Biggest Questions in Physics", at the Glenn Gould Theatre in Toronto. It was recorded by CBC's Quirks and Quarks—which, along with ABC's Science Show are the two longest-running science shows in at least the English-speaking world—and will be broadcast sometime in the New Year. A big thanks to Jim Handman and Bob McDonald who made the entire event a lot of fun!
01/10/2009: Our article on Complementarity in variable strength quantum nondemolition measurements has been selected for inclusion in IOP Select! What does this mean? Well firstly it's very nice because articles are chosen by the editors, and secondly, for the next 365 days the article is free (as in beer), so go grab it now. Kudos to Marco and the team for writing such a good paper!
25/09/2009: There's a nice article today in New Scientist on work by Netanel Lindner and Terry Rudolph (another UQ Alumnus!), Photon 'machine gun' could power quantum computers . A fun read, and not just because of the comments from Terry and Andrew. (Gosh, that didn' take long, it's been slash-dotted already).
14/09/2009: Our paper on Complementarity in variable strength quantum non-demolition measurements was published today in the New Journal of Physics.
04/09/2009: There's a nice article today in New Scientist on some work by Jeremy O'Brien (a QT Lab Alumnus! We should get T-shirts made), and his team at Bristol, where they have repeated our 2007 Shor's algorithm experiment, replacing the free-space circuitry with integrated-optics. There's comments from Jeremy—of course!—and also from Dan Browne and Andrew, who were authors on the two earlier Shor papers.
28/08/2009: There's a great article today in The Quantum Times on Quantum information for chemistry and biology by Alán Aspuru-Guzik, which is a lovely intro—and I'm not just saying that because it briefly mentions our work!
25/08/2009: Ross McKenzie has a blog entry on Andrew's talk today at the CQIQC III in Toronto, entertainingly titled James Bond meets Niels Bohr. Nice one Ross!
23/06/2009: Ben is in the news again! The Australian has an article today Local scientists' quantum leap. (See comment below about this phrase...)
18/06/2009: Ben Lanyon is the subject of a nice article today by Machines Like Us, "A quantum leap". (I've often wondered when people use this expression—do they realise it can refer to the smallest possible leap?). Look for the cool photo and the even cooler description of banging things!
24/04/2009: Our collaborator Alán Aspuru-Guzik was interviewed today in the Nature blog, The Sceptical Chymist and discussed our recent work on quantum chemistry on a quantum computer. Cool!
24/04/2009: Sven Ramelow, returns today to the University of Vienna, after a valiant research visit. It was lots of fun, Sven, and we hope you can come back soon!
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