Author: Christopher Baker

Congrats to Tim, who won an AIP Best student Oral Presentation Award at the 2023 ANZCOP-AIP Summer meeting in Canberra, for his talk titled ‘Directional emission in an on-chip acoustic waveguide’ !! 🥳🎉🎉 (find out more about this research here)

Congratulations to Ray Harrison for being awarded the 2023 ANZOS Postgraduate Prize! The Award seeks to recognise outstanding contributions by postgraduate students to the field of optics and photonics in Australia and New Zealand. Well done Ray! 🎉

Congratulations to Jesse, who recently received the 2023 Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa award for best thesis in physics defended at a Dutch University! 🍾🍾🍾

Optomechanical magnetometers enable highly sensitive magnetic field sensing. In this work, we demonstrate integrated magnetometers with high sensitivity and dynamic range in ambient conditions, using off-the-shelf portable electronics without compromising sensor performance.

Get the paper here: https://opg.optica.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-31-23-37663

Welcome to new group members Nicole Luu and Daniel Harvey, who will be working in the superfluid team! Nicole comes from UC Santa Barbara, where she worked in Dirk Bouwmeester’s lab, and Daniel is joining us from King’s College London. It’s great to have you, and looking forward to lots of cool science!

Amy’s paper, which proposes a novel protocol for continuous optical-to-mechanical quantum state transfer in the unresolved sideband regime is now published:
https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.263603
Nice work Amy, James, Warwick!

In our latest paper, we show that entropic forces can exceed the radiation pressure force by eight orders of magnitude, and use this to achieve phonon lasing with a threshold three orders of magnitude lower than previous work!

Go check out the paper here https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade3591 and
read more about our group’s superfluid research here.

Huge congrats to Warwick on his successful Center of Excellence bid !!! 🥳🙌🎉 🎉 🎉

The new ARC Centre of Excellence in Quantum Biotechnology (QBIC) aims to pioneer paradigm-shifting quantum technologies to observe biological processes and transform our understanding of life. It will drive fundamental knowledge and innovation across manufacturing, clean energy, agriculture, health and national security, and develop quantum technologies that go far beyond what is possible today, from portable brain imagers to superfast single protein sensors. Find out more on QBIC’s website: https://www.quantum-biotechnology.org/