Tim’s paper “Directional emission in an on-chip acoustic
waveguide” just appeared in APL. Well done Tim, Nico, Erick, Tina, Glen, Chris and Warwick!
Read it here: https://pubs.aip.org/aip/apl/article/124/1/013504/2932191
Glen on the pod
On the Clear as Quantum pod this week: our own Glen Harris! And talking about the finer things in life, too: superfluid vortices and adventure racing.
“Quantum leap” is often used in marketing or general society to imply a significant advance, but in quantum physics it actually describes the smallest possible change!
— EQUS (@ARC_EQUS) November 22, 2021
Hear about this and more in ep7 of #ClearAsQuantum: https://t.co/ai3Y1shwt6
It’s not always about us
(But somehow it’s all about The Netherlands this month…)
Glen Harris and Warwick Bowen give some insight in the demonstration of optomechanical quantum teleportation by Niccolò Fiaschi and colleagues in the Gröblacher group at TU Delft. What’s special is that mechanaical states are teleported onto a long-lived (!) quantum memory. Read on in Nature Photonics News & Views:
Meanwhile, our Soroush Khademi writes in PhysicsWorld on the progress in photonic quantum computing: the company QuiX Quantum and Pinkse group at the University of Twente have built the largest photonic quantum processor to date. Find Soroush’s reporting in PhysicsWorld, here:
The quantum pod is out!
In a new podcast series, Australia’s brightest quantum physicists are interviewed about science, tech, and themselves. And two of the hosts happen to be our own Liz Bridge and Yasmine Sfendla! In the first episode, they introduce themselves and chat away about their paths through physics. Cryogenic anecdotes galore.
The fridges used in #quantum labs can’t be bought from your local white-goods store – they’re much shinier, and can cool things down to only a few degrees above absolute zero temperature
— EQUS (@ARC_EQUS) October 8, 2021
Hear about this and more in the new EQUS #podcast: https://t.co/XRzM7s0qfQ#ClearAsQuantum pic.twitter.com/ISUIY3N1SY
A sunny winter lab BBQ
A beautiful Friday to enjoy the Brisbane skyline. Thanks to Warwick Bowen and Larnii Booth to keep us fed and hydrated!
Magetometers for space
From QOL’s longstanding collaboration with NASA, a review on the use and development of magnetometers for aerospace.
Get the views of James Bennet, Hamish Greenall, Elizabeth Bridge, Fernando Gotardo, Stefan Forstner, Glen Harris, Warwick Bowen & our
NASA Glenn RC collaborators in the Sensors special issue “Recent Advances in Magnetic Sensors“:
A quantum-entanglement microscope to untangle the fabric of life
We are incredibly excited this week about the work of Catxere Casacio, Lars Madsen, Alex Terrasson, Muhammad Waleed, Michael Taylor, Warwick Bowen and collaborators in developing a miscrocope that uses quantum entanglement to overcome the photodamage threshold which inhibited convenional bio-miscroscopes from resolving the smallest details of biological samples. Read all about their discovery in Nature, The Guardian, Physicsworld & The Conversation:
The 2021 Heron Island retreat!
After a challenging year, our lab took a break from our attempts to master nature… and submitted to it instead. We had a beautiful time snorkelling the reef, walking beaches, and getting blown away by the ever-incredible Australian nature and island winter-breeze. A big thanks too, to Alex Terrasson who organized this fantastic trip for us.
Dispatch from Alice & Bob: entanglement for quantum networks
Our Soroush Khademi updates us in Physics World on the recent work by our peers at the Max Planck Institute. Read on about the experiment and its impact on the development of quantum networks here:
Tunneling sound
In their latest publication, Nicolas Mauranyapin, Erick Romero, Rachpon Kalra, Glen Harris, Christopher Baker, and Warwick Bowen‘s present their experimental demonstration of phonon tunneling on a silicon slab. Tunnel through to Phys. Rev. Applied and get the deets!