Bowen Research & Translation Laboratory
December in Australia comes with high chances of beach trips, backyard barbecues, pavlova, and… cyclones. In an effort towards better understanding the turbulent dynamics driving cyclones and other extreme weather, we study vortices in a film of superfluid helium, on a microscopic chip. If you missed it on the Arxiv, you can now find it in 2019’s last issue of Science . Congratulations Yauhen Sachkou, Chris Baker, Glen Harris, Stefan Forstner, Xin He, Warwick Bowen, and our collaborators at UQ.
Certified fresh! Yasmine Sfendla brought home this year’s SMP Physics Poster Prize with her work on superfluid Brillouin optomechanics. A version a bit heavier on words is available in Nature Physics. Meanwhile, Christian Bekker received the commendation for Best Student Publication with his development of a microcavity with electrically tunable resonances. Learn more about it in Optics Express. Congrats, Christian and Yasmine!
Shoot for the moon? It’s 2019, we’d rather connect to the moon. Warwick, Chris, and Raj’s work on quantum sensing technologies with NASA and Lockheed Martin was awarded with the UQ Partners in Research Excellence Award for “Designing Technology for Tomorrow”. A tremendous honour for Warwick Bowen, Chris Baker and Rachpon Kalra! We’re sensing this is not the last we’ll hear from this stellar work.
Our Leo Sementilli’s picture of KOH etched Silicon carbide layers grown on silicon was chosen as image of the month by the Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis. Keep making great tiny things, Leo!
Here at the Bowen lab, we don’t like labels. We also don’t like damaging precious samples. With our robust exposed-core fiber sensor, we don’t have to anymore. Thanks to Nico, Lars, Larnii and our collaborators at the University of Adelaide, when it comes to detecting nanoparticles, the quantum noise is the limit.
Since their paper got published, we’ve noticed Erick, Rachpon, Nico, Chris, Chao and Warwick propagating through the hallways a little less stressed. Luckily, their waveguides still are. Keep riding that low loss wave, guys!
Congratulations to former group member Dr. Michael Vanner! Michael has been awarded the 2019 National Measurement Institute’s prize for ‘outstanding achievement in measurement research’ in part for work completed in collaboration with the Bowen lab.
Our newest article features fabulous flow fields and a scheme for sensing single superfluid circulation quanta. Keep those juices flowing, fellas!
“Breaking the wall of the invisible”: our Yasmine Sfendla talks about upscaling quantum physics at the Falling Walls Lab. There is a poor drawing of a microdisk. Apples get involved. A superfluid Schrödinger cat is conceived, and it starts to sound like a sensible plan. Watch the three minutes here:
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Coupled interactions between Warwick Bowen, Alex Szorkovszky, and the University of Sydney’s Prahlad Warszawski and Andrew Doherty have driven the preparation of a new article on optomechanical quantum state tomography. Verify its creation in New J. Phys.:
