• 29/06/2008: Quantum Information and Control in Queensland begins today in Palm Cove. Good physics, good folk and hopefully good weather!
• 24/06/2008: There is a write-up of our shrimp paper in Optics and Photonics Focus, Super-Vision for Mr. Shrimp.
• 20/06/2008: Andrew's profile is being featured on the front page of Nature Asia this week.
• 24/05/2008: There is a simply wonderful write-up of our shrimp paper by Andrew's favourite blogger, PZ Myers of Pharyngula fame, The superior eyes of shrimp. (And yes, he was Andrew's favourite blogger even before he wrote about our paper!)
• 23/05/2008: The New York Times reported on our shrimp paper! See A different viewpoint in the Science Section.
• 20/05/2008: Jeepers creepers! Scientific American reports again on the shrimp paper, Mantis Shrimp Has Built-In Shades.
• 19/05/2008: Well we're tickled pink that our shrimp paper has made been reported in the National Geographic, or at least their website! See, "Weird Beastie" Shrimp Have Super-Vision.
• 19/05/2008: Well that was fun! Andrew was just interviewed about the shrimp by Red Symons for ABC Melbourne's morning radio show. Best, and most unexpected, question: "What would you do if you had genital-fingers?..." :)
• 17/05/2008: Sonja's got a great interview with Bob McDonald on the Canadian radio show, Quirks and Quarks, Mantis Shrimp's Super Sight, have a listen!
• 15/05/2008: ...And now there's a Softpedia article on our shrimp vision paper, Shrimp See All Types of Polarized Light. It's nicely written, but gets the same quote wrong as the Physics World article ... hmm!
• 15/05/2008: Gosh, a lot of people are interested in shrimp. There's an article in today's Science Daily, Weird Shrimp Has Astounding Vision, a lovely and comprehensive article in today's Physics World and Optics.org (although they do get one quote wrong!), Shrimp see a polarized world, and even a report in MSNBC, Giant shrimp can see beyond the rainbow.
• 14/05/2008: There's an article on our shrimp paper in the Nature blog The Great Beyond, Shrimp's super sight (also see the Scintilla link); at The Press Association, Shrimp with super-vision revealed; at UnderwaterTimes.com, Scientists: Mantis Shrimps See Beyond The Rainbow; 'A Completely New Concept Of Polarization Vision'; at Scientific Frontline, Scientists find weird shrimp has astounding vision; and even at The Today Show, Giant shrimp can see beyond the rainbow.
• 14/05/2008: Well that's nice! Our paper on optimal polarisation vision in shrimp is the number one pick in the blog by the PLoS ONE online manager, A blog around the clock.
• 14/05/2008: Our paper on The Secret World of Shrimps: Polarisation Vision at Its Best appeared today in PLoS ONE. Weird little beasties they are!
• 20/05/2008: Jeepers creepers! Scientific American reports again on the shrimp paper, Mantis Shrimp Has Built-In Shades.
• 13/05/2008: There's a nice article in the Discover magazine blog on our shrimp paper, Freaky Shrimp Species Has Singular Sight, and in Reuters, Shrimp can see beyond the rainbow, which has also been picked up by Scientific American.
• 24/04/2008: We seem to be tickling Dave Bacon's title bone, he once again quite likes the title of one of our recent arxiv papers, this time The secret world of shrimps: polarisation vision at its best. (He also thinks it's fascinating, which again is nice!)
• 23/04/2008: Today's Nature Photonics features our qutrit-qubit experiment in a very nice Research Highlight, Higher-level control, doi:10.1038/nphoton.2008.39.
• 04/04/2008: Today's Physics Arxiv Blog has a nice discussion of our higher dimension quantum computing paper: Qutrit breakthrough brings quantum computers closer.
• 03/04/2008: Dave Bacon (aka the Quantum Pontiff) quite likes the title of our recent arxiv paper Quantum computing using shortcuts through higher dimensions. (He also likes the paper as well, which is nice!)
• 26/02/2008: Today's PhysOrg has a nice article on our qubit-qutrit experiment: Physicists Demonstrate Qubit-Qutrit Entanglement.
• 14/02/2008: Our paper on Manipulating Biphotonic Qutrits appeared today in Physical Review Letters: who said scientists aren't romantic?
• 03/01/2008: Dr Michael Goggin from Truman State University, has started a six-month sabbatical with the QT Lab, hot on the heels from one with Prof. Paul Kwiat at Illinois. Welcome Mike!

2007

• 19/12/2007: Happy Eid ul-Adha! Our paper on Experimental demonstration of Shor's algorithm with quantum entanglement appeared today in Physical Review Letters.
• 15/12/2007: Despite what you may read, quantum computing will not enable anyone to transmit information faster than the speed of light. You can find an overview of our experiment and its possible implications at quantum.info/shors.
• 14/12/2007: ZDNet in Asia and Australia have an article our on Shor's experiment. Some corrections: it's more correct to say that the information needed to describe n entangled qubits grows exponentially, not the number of states; and we are funded in part by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency, IARPA, not by DARPA. It's easy to see how these things can get confused!
• 14/12/2007: Cool! Our work our Shor's experiment made it into Neatorama!
• 11/12/2007: Today's PhysOrg has a nice article on our Shor's experiment: Physicists perform the first ever quantum calculation.
• 8/12/2007: There's a nice article by Davide Castelvecchi on our Shor's experiment in today's Science News.
• 30/11/2007: An article has appeared in today's Innovations Report on our forthcoming Physical Review Letter on an Experimental demonstration of Shor's algorithm with quantum entanglement.
• 17/10/2007: Happy International Dadaism month! Marco's paper on Effects of frequency correlation in linear optical entangling gate operated with independent photons appeared today in Physical Review A.
• 26/9/2007: Great news! Our Discovery Project on "Biomolecular optoelectronic materials and devices" has been funded by the Australian Research Council. Roll on cold black photon counters!
• 18/9/2007: Gosh, more coverage! There's an article about our paper on Shor's algorithm in today's Brisbane Times, Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. As we say below, our experiment is interesting in that it demonstrates every stage of Shor's algorithm, particularly the entangling step. It is not scalable in itself, but there is a in-principle path to scalability which we and our colleagues are investigating to see if and when that's going to be feasible. As Ben Lanyon says "it was incredibly hard to do" ... so RSA Security don't need to worry just yet!
• 14/9/2007: Despite the title of today's Ars Technica article, we'd just like to make it clear that we have never burnt through any graduate students, although we have on occassion fed them too much coffee. (Indeed, working in a dark lab we try not to let our researchers near bright light, get them wet, and most importantly, never feed them after midnight...)
• 14/9/2007: The Register in the UK have a slightly breathless view of our Shor's paper. Our work does not pose a threat to current, everyday, cryptography, since the time scale for such quantum computation is closer to decades than months, and may not even be based on our research! It's just too early to tell for sure. You only need to worry about quantum computation today if you are prime-number encrypting and publicly sending messages that you still want to be secret 20 years from now (i.e. you are paranoid or a government ... ahem.) On the other hand, this is the first time our work has been directly compared to a James Bond film ...
• 13/9/2007: Well that didn't take long! Slashdot covers the New Scientist article which covers our arXiv paper which is still with the referees...
• 13/9/2007: In today's New Scientist there is an article, Quantum threat to our secret data, prompted in part by our recent arXiv paper, Experimental demonstration of Shor's algorithm with quantum entanglement. It's probably far too soon to talk about threats! What's interesting is that our experiment demonstrated every stage of Shor's algorithm. It is not scalable in itself, but there is a in-principle path to scalability which we and our colleagues are investigating to see if and when that's going to be feasible.
• 20/7/2007: After a successful (and amazingly quick) year, Devon Biggerstaff has finished his Fulbright and is starting a PhD with Kevin Resch at the University of Waterloo. Good luck Devon, and come back soon!
• 15/6/2007: Happy Magna Carta Day! In PhysOrg today there's a nice interview with Kevin Resch, Super resolution phase measurements – without entanglement.
• 31/5/2007: Happy Vesak! Our paper on Time-Reversal and Super-Resolving Phase Measurements appeared today in Physical Review Letters.
• 16/5/2007: Happy Dunghri Mela! Our paper on Entanglement Generation by Fock-State Filtration appeared today in Physical Review Letters.
• 4/5/2007: After 5 fabulous years, Doctor Nathan Langford (sounds great doesn't it Nathan!) is leaving us to work as a Postdoctoral Scientist at the University of Vienna. Good luck Nathan, and thank you for all the fun!
• 13/3/2007: Wonderful news today - after competitive review, the Australian Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computer Technology has been renewed until the end of 2010!
• 14/2/2007: Happy Valentine's Day! Devon Biggerstaff is one of 5 Fulbright scholars at UQ this year - a record for an Australian university.
• 26/1/2007: Happy Australia Day! Our paper on Measuring two-qubit gates appeared today in the Journal of the Optical Society of America B.
• 11/1/2007: Happy New Year! Our paper on a Source of triggered entangled photon pairs? appeared today in Nature.

2006

• 28/11/2006: Marcelo Pereira de Almeida has joined the QT Lab from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Welcome Marcelo!
• 7/11/2006: Marco Barbieri has joined the QT Lab from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". Welcome Marco!
• 11/10/2006: We've received an Australian Research Council International Fellowship for Dr Thomas Jennewein to join us from the University of Vienna for 6 months. Great news!
• 3/10/2006: Cool! There's a nice article about Devon and his work in today's Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
• 2/10/2006: Susan Grantham has joined the QT Lab as our new Laboratory Administrator. This is great news both for us, and any of our collaborators who suffered through our previous attempts at admin. Welcome Susan!
• 25/8/2006: After 1½ years, Kevin Resch is leaving us to start his own laboratory at the Institute for Quantum Computing and the University of Waterloo. Congratulations Kevin, and have fun with all your new toys!
• 28/7/2006: Devon Biggerstaff has joined the QT Lab. Welcome Devon!
• 23/6/2006: We're advertising 3 more Postdoctoral Fellow positions. Please contact us if you are interested!
• 11/5/2006: Andrew White has been awarded one of twenty-five Australian Research Council Federation Fellowships. This is great news - it allows us to establish a research program in Integrated Quantum Photonics, to make optical quantum information technology more robust and better performing.
• 30/3/2006: After 4½ years, Jeremy O'Brien is leaving us to start his own laboratory at the University of Bristol. Congratulations Jeremy, and have fun setting up in the UK!
• 28/2/2006: Ben Lanyon has joined the QT Lab. Welcome Ben!
• 6/2/2006: After 4 years, Geoff Pryde is leaving us to start his own laboratory at Griffith University. Congratulations Geoff, now the fun begins anew!
• 20/1/2006: We received a generous International Science Linkage grant from the Department of Education, Science, and Training for our project on Optical Quantum Computing.

2005

• 9/12/2005: Nathan Langford has been awarded the 2006 Optical Society of America Prize for best Student Presentation at the Australian Conference on Optics, Lasers, and Spectroscopy. Congratulations Nathan!
• 7/12/2005: Work by Nathan Langford done during two visits to our collaborators at the University of Illinois has been listed in the Top 25 Physics Stories for 2005. Congratulations Nathan, Julio, Paul and the gang!
• 18/11/2005: Our paper on Demonstration of a Simple Entangling Optical Gate and Its Use in Bell-State Analysis was published in Physical Review Letters.
• 12/11/2005: Our paper on Study of optical properties of electropolymerized melanin films by photopyroelectric spectroscopy was published in European Biophysics Journal.
• 28/9/2005: Rohan Dalton and Till Weinhold have both been awarded University of Queensland Confirmation Scholarships. Congratulations Rohan and Till!
• 12/8/2005: Another good day! Jeremy O'Brien and Geoffrey Pryde were promoted by the University of Queensland to Senior Research Fellows. Congratulations Jeremy and Geoff!
• 4/8/2005: Our paper on Determination of thermal and optical parameters of melanins by photopyroelectric spectroscopy was published in Applied Physics Letters.
• 18/7/2005: Our reply to a comment on our QND paper has been published in Physical Review Letters.
• 10/6/2005: A good day! Our papers on Measurement of Quantum Weak Values of Photon Polarisation and Demonstrating Superior Discrimination of Locally Prepared States Using Nonlocal Measurements were both published in Physical Review Letters.
• 9/6/2005: Our paper on High-fidelity Z-measurement error encoding of optical qubits was published in Physical Review A.
• 7/5/2005: Robyn Williams has done a nice piece on Quantum Computing on the Science Show. Includes chats with Michelle Simmons and Andrew White. (Begins ~30 mins through the podcast).
• 7/4/2005: Kevin Resch has joined the QT Lab. Welcome Kevin!
• 17/3/2005: An article in today's Courier Mail highlights that it is 100 years today since Einstein's seminal paper on the photoelectric effect was published.
• 13/3/2005: Einstein in the pub! Come along to the GPO Bar today and debate the topic "Einstein: Person of the 20th century or overrated?". Photos here.
• 4/2/2005: Robert Prevedel is visiting us for 6 months from Anton Zeilinger's group in Vienna. Welcome Robert!
• 1/1/2005: First day of the International Year of Physics. Have fun!

2004

• 1/12/2004: Our paper on Laser frequency locking by direct measurement of detuning has been published in Optics Letters.
• 22/11/2004: Duncan McKimm has written an introductory article on Quantum entanglement for the general public at ABC Science.
• 17/11/2004: We've received a three-year Australian Research Council Discovery Grant to investigate Controlling quantum technologies.
• 24/9/2004: Andrew White has won a University of Queensland Foundation Research Excellence Award for the QT Lab project on Quantum Holography (video). Cool - now we can play with spatial light modulators!
• 23/9/2004: The UQ Physics Postgraduate Days start today. We have a number of projects on offer, please contact us for more details and further information.
• 20/8/2004: Our paper on Quantum Process Tomography of a Controlled-NOT Gate has been published in Physical Review Letters.
• 30/7/2004: Our paper on Entangled qutrits: production and characterisation has been published in Physical Review Letters.
• 2/6/2004: An article discussing our QND paper, below, has been published at physorg.com.
• 14/5/2004: Our paper on Measuring a photonic qubit without destroying it has been published in Physical Review Letters.
• 5/1/2004: Rohan Dalton and Till Weinhold have been awarded School of Physical Sciences Research Scholarships. Congratulations Rohan and Till!

2003

• Nov 2003: Some information on our CNOT gate, including a list of media reports.
• 20/11/2003: Our paper on Demonstration of an all-optical quantum controlled-NOT gate has been published in Nature.