Oct 2023: New publication: "Second-order coherence across the Brillouin lasing threshold" now in Optica! Many congratulations joint first authors Evan and Georg, and the full team!
Aug 2023: New publication: "Cavity Quantum Optomechanical Nonlinearities and Position Measurement Beyond the Breakdown of the Linearized Approximation" now in Physical Review Letters! Many congratulations Jack and Kiran, and our collaborators Pascal and Ewold at AMOLF!
Mar 2022: Team news: Andreas Svela successfully defends his research on optical microcavities and Brillouin optomechanics at his PhD VIVA! Many congratulations Dr Svela and all the very best with your career ahead!
May 2022: New publication: "Two-mode Schrodinger-cat states with nonlinear optomechanics: generation and verification of non-Gaussian mechanical entanglement" now in Quantum Science and Technology! Many congratulations Lydia, Jack, and Sofia!
Mar 2022: Team news: John Price successfully defends his research on Brillouin optomechanics at his PhD VIVA! Many congratulations Dr Price and all the very best with your next career step at ORCA Computing!
Jan 2022: New publication: "A Kerr polarization controller" now in Nature Communications! Many congratulations Niall and the full team who performed these beautiful experiments in the Del'Haye Lab in Erlangen!
Dec 2021: New publication: "Can the displacemon device test objective collapse models?" now in AVS Quantum Science in a special issue that celebrates Sir Roger Penrose's Nobel Prize! Many congratulations Lydia, and Jack, and our collaborator Edward Laird in Lancaster!
Dec 2021: New publication: "Non-Gaussian Mechanical Motion via Single and Multiphonon Subtraction from a Thermal State" now in Physical Review Letters! Many congratulations our joint first authors Georg, Lars, John, and Andreas, Jack, and our collaborators in the ANU Quantum Optics group!
Nov 2021: Team news: Kyle Major joins our team as a senior postdoc building on his research experience in the Centre for Cold Matter. A very warm welcome aboard Kyle!
Nov 2021: Team news: Michael Woodley completes his postdoc with our team and takes an exciting next step in his career with the Quantum Systems and Devices group at the University of Sussex. Fantastic having you aboard Michael and all the very best!
Oct 2021: Team news: Evan Cryer-Jenkins completes his MSc and continues for his PhD with our team! Many congratulations Evan and great to have you aboard!
Aug 2021: Team news: Mickael Chan completes a summer project with our team and then continues his Masters in Photonics and Semiconductors in Grenoble. It was great having you aboard Mickael and we hope we can work together again soon!
Aug 2021: Team news: Sofia Qvarfort completes her EPSRC Doctoral Prize fellowship with our team and begins an exciting next chapter of her career in Stockholm funded by both Marie Curie and Nordita WINQ fellowships. Many congratulations and all the very best Sofia!
Jul 2021: New publication: "Master-equation treatment of nonlinear optomechanical systems with optical loss" now in Physical Review A! Many congratulations Sofia, Peter, and David!
Jun 2021: Team news: Evan Cryer-Jenkins joins our team for his MSc and PhD after completing his BSc at the University of Surrey. Welcome aboard Evan!
Feb 2021: New publication: "Preparation and verification of two-mode mechanical entanglement through pulsed optomechanical measurements" now in New Journal of Physics! Many congratulations Jack, and our collaborators Pascal and Ewold at AMOLF!
Jan 2021: New publication: "Single-phonon addition and subtraction to a mechanical thermal state" now in Physical Review Letters! Many congratulations Georg, John, Lars, and our collaborators at Bath and the ANU Quantum Optics group!
Dec 2020: New publication: "Coherent suppression of backscattering in optical microresonators" now in Light: Science and Applications! Many congratulations Andreas and our collaborators at the NPL, Time and Frequency Division and at Max Planck, Erlangen!
Dec 2020: Team news: Michael Woodley joins our team after completing his PhD in the Del'Haye group at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen. Welcome aboard Michael!
Jun 2020: New publication: "Generating mechanical and optomechanical entanglement via pulsed interaction and measurement" now in New Journal of Physics! Many congratulations Jack, Paulo, and team! This work was also featured by Physics World with a research update interview.
Jun 2020: Graduation: Many congratulations Dr Georg Enzian who has successfully completed his PhD! Georg, as a founding member of our team, you have been instrumental to our discovery of exciting new seas and your voice continues to help keep our course true. All the very best with your postdoc in Copenhagen and do visit us in London soon! Link to photos.
May 2020: Funding news: Together with Malcolm Connolly's team, we have been awarded a £1.6M EPSRC Strategic Capital Equipment grant to establish a dilution refrigerator facility! Looking forward to utilizing these new capabilities!
Apr 2020: Check out Sofia Qvarfort's blog VIP@UNI, which aims to help people with visual impairments to study at university and improve their higher-education experiences. You can also listen to her latest podcast here. You're an inspiration Sofia!
Mar 2020: Team news: Heng Shen completes his fellowship with our team and is now starting his own group in the State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics, Shanxi University, China. Many congratulations and very best wishes Heng!
Jan 2020: Team news: Sofia Qvarfort has been awarded an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship and joins our team for her first postdoc after completing her PhD in the Serafini and Bose groups at UCL. Welcome aboard Sofia!
Nov 2019: Team news: Lydia Kanari Naish joins our team for her PhD. Welcome aboard Lydia!
Oct 2019: Graduation: Many congratulations Timo Sommer who has successfully completed his MSc! All the very best with your PhD ahead in Munich!
Oct 2019: Funding news: Our lab has been awarded a Royal Society Research Grant!
Sep 2019: Funding news: Our lab has been awarded a £1.6M grant via the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship scheme! For more information, see the Imperial College London news item. Link to photos.
Jul 2019: New publication: "Quantum Hypercube States" now in Physical Review Letters! Many congratulations Lewis, Till, Farid, Josh, Andrew, and Martin!
Jun 2019: Andreas is awarded the best student talk at the AMOLF Nanophotonics Summer School. Many congratulations Andreas! Link to photos.
Apr 2019: Team news: Timo Sommer joins our team for his MSc. Herzlich willkommen Timo!
Mar 2019: Graduation: Many congratulations Dr Magdalena Szczykulska who has successfully completed her PhD! Very well done Magda on all of your excellent research outputs. All the very best with your future and you will be greatly missed in our group! Link to photos.
Jan 2019: New publication: "Observation of Brillouin optomechanical strong coupling with an 11 GHz mechanical mode" now in Optica! This experiment is the first to report Brillouin optomechanical strong coupling to high frequency phonons. Many congratulations Georg and Magda, and our collaborators at the National Physical Laboratory!
Nov 2018: Funding news: Together with our local collaborator Steve Kolthammer, we have been awarded an EPSRC-funded Early-Career Capital Grant to purchase some ultra-high-efficiency superconducting single photon counters!
Oct 2018: Graduation: Andreas Svela and Niall Moroney have completed their MSc degrees! Many congratulations Andreas and Niall and all the very best with your PhD research ahead!
Sep 2018: Funding news: Our lab, together with many researchers across the UK, has been awarded an STFC staging proposal "Quantum Sensors for Fundamental Physics"!
Sep 2018: New publication: "Growing macroscopic superposition states via cavity quantum optomechanics" now in Quantum Science and Technology! Many congratulations Jack on your excellent first paper!
Aug 2018: Team news: Lars Freisem joins our team for his PhD. Herzlich willkommen Lars!
Jul 2018: Team news: Niall Moroney, John Price, and Andreas Svela join our team as MSc + PhD students! Welcome aboard Niall and John! Velkommen Andreas! Niall, John, and Andreas are part of the Quantum Systems Engineering Skills and Training Hub. Niall and Andreas will work closely with our collaborators in the Microphotonics Research Laboratory, NPL, Teddington and John will work closely with our collaborator Josh Nunn from the University of Bath. Very best wishes for your research guys!
May 2018: New publication: "Displacemon electromechanics: how to detect quantum interference in a nanomechanical resonator" now in Physical Review X! Many congratulations Kiran, Natalia, and Edward! We're looking forward to continuing our collaboration!
May 2018: Michael has been awarded Australia's National Measurement Institute Prize for his "outstanding contributions to precision measurement in the emerging new field of cavity quantum optomechanics"! The NMI Prize is awarded annually on the 20th of May—world metrology day—which celebrates the 1875 metre convention. Link to photos.
May 2018: New publication: "Generation of mechanical interference fringes by multi-photon counting" now in New Journal of Physics! Our work made the first experimental observation of mechanical interference fringes and theoretically proposes how to generate Schrodinger cat states of mechanical motion by projection onto optical NOON states. Many congratulations Martin, Till, Lewis and Andrew—our collaborators from the quantum technology lab in Brisbane!
Apr 2018: Team news: Heng Shen has been awarded a Royal Society Newton International Fellowship and joins our team after completing his PhD and postdoc in the Polzik and Blatt groups, respectively. Huanying Heng!
Apr 2018: Team news: Kiran Khosla joins our team after completing his PhD in the Milburn group in Brisbane. Welcome aboard Kiran!
Mar 2018: Team news: Paulo Sahium joins our team as a visiting undergraduate. Bem-vindo Paulo!
Jan 2018: Team news: Jack Clarke is awarded an EPSRC scholarship, after his MPhys at the University of Oxford, and continues with our team for his PhD at Imperial! Congratulations Jack - it's great to have you aboard!
Jan 2018: New publication: "Quantum magnetomechanics: Towards the ultrastrong coupling regime" now in Physical Review B! Many congratulations Erick and team!
Nov 2017: New publication: "Quantum optomechanics beyond the quantum coherent oscillation regime" now in Optica! Many congratulations Kiran and team!
Aug 2017: New publication: "Amplified transduction of Planck-scale effects using quantum optics" now in Physical Review A! Many congratulations Pasquale, Saurya, and Igor!
Jul 2017: Graduation: Jack Clarke completes his masters project "Generating quantum superposition states of mechanical vibration using light" and is awarded the Gibbs prize for his MPhys year. Fantastic work Jack!
Jun 2017: We are moving to Imperial College London! We are looking forward to setting up and working in our new lab in South Kensington!
Oct 2016: New publication: "Arbitrary multi-qubit generation" which introduces a technique how to synthesize multi-qubit states of light, now in New Journal of Physics! Many congratulations Farid, Austin, and Tim!
Aug 2016: Team news: Jack Clarke joins our team for his masters project. Welcome aboard Jack!
Jul 2016: Team news: Magdalena Szczykulska joins our team for her PhD. Welcome aboard Magda!
Jun 2016: New publication: "Quantum and classical phases in optomechanics" now in Physical Review A! This work sheds light on what fraction of the signal is non-classical in the Marshall et al and the Pikovski et al proposals. Many congratulations Federico, Ludovico, Igor, Caslav, and Myungshik!
Jun 2016: Team news: Zhe Xian Koong joins our team as a summer student. Selamat datang Zak!
May 2016: New publication: "Non-classical state generation in macroscopic systems via hybrid discrete-continuous quantum measurements" now in Physical Review A!
This work proposes how to generate non-classical states of mechanical motion using single phonon addition/subtraction and QND quadrature measurements. That was fun Tom and Myungshik!
May 2016: New publication: "A quantum optomechanical interface beyond the resolved sideband limit" now in New Journal of Pysics! Well done James and team!
Mar 2016: New publication: "Nonlinear optomechanical measurement of mechanical motion" now in Nature Communications! Building on an earlier theoretical proposal, this work is one of the first experiments to observe the nonlinearity of the optomechanical interaction and perform position-squared measurements of a mechanical oscillator. Many congratulations George Brawley and team!
Mar 2016: Team news: Georg Enzian joins our team for his PhD. Herzlich willkommen Georg!
Mar 2016: Funding news: Together with our collaborators in Oxford Materials, we have been awarded an EPSRC Quantum Technologies Stategic Capital Award. We're looking forward to setting up our new lab!
