News Archive | Dec 13 | Alex Clark has won an award from the Worldwide Universities Network under their Researcher Mobility Programme. He will visit the CUDOS group at the University of Sydney for one month in February 2011. |
| Dec 13 | Our paper Strongly enhanced photon collection from diamond defect centers under microfabricated integrated solid immersion lenses has appeared in Applied Physics Letters. |
| Dec 6 | Our paper Nano-fabricated solid immersion lenses registered to single emitters in diamond with our collaborators has appeared on the arXiv. |
| Nov 23 | Our paper High-fidelity operation of quantum photonic circuits with our collaborators has appeared in Applied Physics Letters. |
| Nov 16 | Alberto Politi has won the Faculty of Engineering thesis prize for the exceptional quality of his Doctoral research degree. Congratulations Alberto! |
| Nov 7 | Our paper Generation of correlated photon pairs in a chalcogenide As2S3 waveguide with our collaborators has appeared on the arXiv. |
| Nov 7 | Registration for Quantum Dot Day 2011 - 10th January 2010 is now open. The abstract/registration deadline is 3rd December. |
| Nov 2 | Anthony Laing has had a successful higher dimensional PhD viva: Congratulations Dr Laing! |
| Nov 1 | Our paper Conditional phase shift from a quantum dot in a pillar microcavity with our collaborators has appeared on the arXiv. |
| Sep 17 | Our work on Quantum Walks of Correlated Photons has been reported on the front pages of the Financial Times , the Chosunilbo (Korea) and a number of other places. |
| Sep 16 | Our paper Quantum Walks of Correlated Photons has appeared in Science. See also the Perspective in the same issue by Mark Hillery. |
| Sep 14 | Our paper Coherence properties of a single dipole emitter in diamond with collaborators has appeared on the arXiv. |
| Sep 7 | Jake Kennard has joined as a PhD student - Welcome Jake. |
| Aug 25 | Peter Shadbolt has been commended for his poster presentation at the Institute of Physics conference Photon 10 in Southampton today. Congratulations Pete. |
| Aug 6 | Hamish Johnston from IOP's Physics World featured work from our labs on his blog. |
| Jul 29 | Anthony Laing and colleagues' work on Reference-frame-independent quantum key distribution is featured in New Scientist. |
| Jul 7 | Our paper Reference-frame-independent quantum key distribution with our collaborators has appeared in Physical Review A. |
| Jun 30 | Jeremy O'Brien has been awarded the IOP's 2010 Moseley medal and prize for his outstanding contributions to experimental quantum optics and quantum information science and in particular for pioneering the field of integrated quantum photonics. Congratulations Jeremy! |
| Jun 25 | Our paper Realization of a Knill-Laflamme-Milburn C-NOT gate -a photonic quantum circuit combining effective optical nonlinearities with our collaborators has appeared on the arXiv. |
| Jun 18 | Kostas has been commended for his poster presentation at the 2010 Physics postgraduate conference. Well done Kostas! |
| Jun 10 | Our paper Strongly enhanced photon collection from diamond defect centres under micro-fabricated integrated solid immersion lenses has appeared on the arXiv. |
| Jun 1 | Jeremy O'Brien has been awarded the OSA's 2010 Adolph Lomb Medal for seminal contributions to quantum optics, optical quantum metrology and quantum information through the foundation of the field of integrated quantum photonics. Congratulations Jeremy! |
| Jun 1 | Jeremy O'Brien has been awarded an IUPAP Young Scientist Prize Winners . Congratulations Jeremy! |
| May 30 | Our paper Loss-resistant state teleportation and entanglement swapping using a quantum-dot spin in an optical microcavity has appeared on the arXiv. |
| May 27 | Our paper Heralded entanglement for quantum enhanced measurement with photons has appeared on the arXiv. |
| May 24 | Our paper Operating quantum waveguide circuits with superconducting single-photon detectors with our collaborators has appeared in Appl. Phys. Lett. |
| Apr 2 | Our paper High-fidelity operation of quantum photonic circuits has appeared on the arXiv. |
| Mar 31 | Jeremy has been awarded the 2010 Optical Society of America Adolph Lomb Award. |
| Mar 31 | CQP has been awarded an EU project PHORBITECH with several collaborators. |
| Mar 30 | Laurent Labonte has joined us as a visiting research fellow from Nice. Welcome Laurent! |
| May 24 | Our paper A simple scheme for expanding photonic cluster states for quantum information has appeared in JOSA B. |
| Mar 4 | Our review Quantum computers written with collaborators has appeared in Nature. |
| Mar 1 | CQP's EU funded QUANTIP programme is kicking off this week |
| Feb 27 | Quantum is the key to beat fraudsters - an article by Richard Nock explaining his and colleagues' work on quantum key distribution (QKD) appeared in E-tech magazine. |
| Feb 26 | Our paper Experimental Feedback Control of Quantum Systems Using Weak Measurements with several collaborators has appeared in Phys. Rev. Lett. |
| Feb 25 | Dr. Noboyuki Matsuda has left us today after a fantastic 4 month visit - so long Noboyuki, thanks for coming and we hope to see you again soon! |
| Feb 2 | Alberto Politi had a successful PhD viva. Congratulations Dr Politi! |
| Jan 6 | Peter Shadbolt has joined us as a PhD student - Welcome Peter. |
| Jan 3 | For those who can read Spanish you can read about Maria here. |
| Dec 16 | Alberto Politi won 3rd prize in the Engineering Research Reception Poster Competition. Congratulations Alberto. |
| Dec 5 | Our review Integrated Quantum Photonics has appeared in the Special Issue on Quantum Communications and Information Science in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. |
| Dec 1 | Brian Patton has joined us as a research associate - Welcome Brian. |
| Dec 1 | Our review with Akira Furusawa and Jelena Vuckovic, Photonic quantum technologies, has appeared in the Quantum Optics focus issue of Nature Photonics. |
| Nov 1 | Kostas Poulios has joined us as a PhD student - Welcome Kostas. |
| Oct 5 | Bryn Bell has joined us as a PhD student - Welcome Bryn. |
| Oct 5 | Mirko Lobino has joined us as a research fellow - Welcome Mirko. |
| Sep 25 | Professor Jeremy O'Brien was presented the QUROPE and QIPC 2009 European Quantum Information Young Investigator Award for his pioneering contributions to optical quantum information processing and quantum measurement. The award, consisting of a diploma and €3000 was presented at the QIPC conference in Rome, 21 - 25 September 2009. Congratulations Jeremy. |
| Sep 4 | Our paper Shor’s Quantum Factoring Algorithm on a Photonic Chip appeared in the September issue of Science. |
| Aug 11 | A workshop on Quantum Photonics, aimed at young researchers is being held in Bristol at the NSQI centre on the 17-18 September. See Quantum Photonics Workshop 09 for more details on dates, funding and registration. |
| Jul 19 | Our paper with several of our collaborators Laser written waveguide photonic quantum circuits has appeared in Optics Express. |
| Jun 19 | Alberto Peruzzo won the Prize for Best Poster in the University of Bristol Physics Postgraduate Conference. Antony Stanley-Clarke was also awarded a commendation. Congratulations Alberto and Antony. |
| Jun 1 | Our paper Manipulation of multiphoton entanglement in waveguide quantum circuits appeared in the June issue of Nature Photonics. See Quantum optics on a chip News & Views article in the same issue by Dominic Berry and Howard Wiseman (See also Bristol news story) |
| May 18 | WE CURRENTLY HAVE A RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP ADVERTISED |
| May 7 | Together with our friends at Macquarie we have won The 2009 Macquarie University Innovation Award in Research for Quantum Informatics on a Chip. Be sure to watch the video starring Jonathan! |
| May 1 | We have several PhD positions available for 2009 - see project descriptions. |
| Apr 24 | Our paper Experimental quantum process discrimination has appeared in Physical Review Letters (see Bristol news story). |
| Apr 1 | Mark takes up a prestigious Toshiba Fellowship today (see Bristol news story). |
| Mar 26 | Our paper All-optical-fiber polarization-based quantum logic gate has appeared in Physical Review A (see Bristol news story). |
| Mar 9 | Ruth was runner up in the SET for Britain engineering session - Congratulations Ruth. Jonathan also presented in the physics section. See Bristol news story. |
| Mar 5 | Damien Bonneau has joined us as a PhD student - Welcome Damien. |
| Mar 5 | Pisu Jiang has joined us as a research fellow - Welcome Pisu. |
| Mar 1 | Our work An entanglement filter was reviewed in Nature Photonics March issue's Research Highlights. |
| Feb 25 | Our paper Laser written waveguide photonic quantum circuits has appeared on the arXiv. |
| Feb 25 | Arthur Thijssen has joined us as a PhD student - Welcome Arthur. |
| Feb 1 | Our paper with several of our collaborators Simplifying quantum logic using higher-dimensional Hilbert spaces has appeared in Nature Physics. |
| Jan 26 | Our paper Robust photon-spin entangling gate using a quantum-dot spin in a microcavity has appeared on the arXiv. |
| Jan 23 | Our paper with Prof. Takeuchi's group An entanglement filter has appeared in Science (see News of the Week in Science) |
| Jan 19 | Our paper Nonclassical 2-photon interference with separate intrinsically narrowband fibre sources has appeared on the arXiv. |
| Nov 3 | CQP has been awarded the 2008 global emerging technology award of IET (see Bristol News). |
| Oct 29 | JP Hadden has joined us as a PhD student - Welcome JP. |
| Oct 06 | Mian Zhang has joined us as a Masters student - Welcome Mian. |
| Sep 29 | Mark Thompson and Ruth Oulton have both joined us today as lecturers in Physics and Electrical Engineering - Welcome Mark and Ruth. |
| Sep 29 | Tomohisa Nagata is visiting us from Shigeki Takeuchi's group until Nov. |
| Sep 29 | Alberto Peruzzo has joined us as a PhD student - Welcome Alberto. |
| Sep 23 | Gabriel has returned to Caltech - good luck Gabriel |
| Sep 22 | Our commentary Quantum computing over the rainbow has appeared in Physics. |
| Sep 17 | Our paper with several of our collaborators A deterministic optical quantum computer using photonic modules has appeared in Physical Review A. |
| Sep 11 | Our paper with Olli Ahonen and Mikko Mottonen Entanglement-enhanced quantum key distribution has appeared in Physical Review A. |
| Sep 8 | Maria Rodas has joined us as a visiting researcher from the University of Vigo - Welcome Maria |
| Aug 27 | Jonathan won best poster at Photon08 - Well done Jonathan! (Alberto wants half of the prize money since he made the poster!) |
| Aug 13 | Our paper Giant optical Faraday rotation induced by a single-electron spin in a quantum dot: Applications to entangling remote spins via a single photon has appeared in Physical Review B. |
| Aug 6 | Our paper with Kevin Resch, Geoff Pryde and Andrew White's group Understanding photonic quantum-logic gates: The road to fault tolerance appeared on the arXiv. |
| Jul 18 | Our paper with Shige Takeuchi's group Beating the standard quantum limit: phase super-sensitivity of N-photon interferometers has appeared in New Journal of Physics. |
| Jul 2 | Our paper Cavity Enhanced Spin Measurement of an NV Centre in Diamond appeared on the arXiv. |
| Jun 9 | There is a Physics Update on our paper Silica-on-Silicon Waveguide Quantum Circuits in the latest issue of Physics Today. |
| Jun 5 | WE CURRENTLY HAVE A RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP ADVERTISED |
| May 30 | David Gavaux has written a News & Views article on our paper Silica-on-Silicon Waveguide Quantum Circuits in the latest issue of Nature Photonics. |
| May 29 | WE CURRENTLY HAVE SEVERAL PhD STUDENTSHIPS AVAILABLE |
| May 15 | Paul Kwiat has written a News & Views article on our paper Silica-on-Silicon Waveguide Quantum Circuits in the latest issue of Nature. |
| May 15 | The current issue of Laser Focus World features an article on our paper Silica-on-Silicon Waveguide Quantum Circuits: Silica-on-silicon chips beget quantum circuits. |
| May 2 | A review of our paper Silica-on-Silicon Waveguide Quantum Circuits has appeared on 2Physics. |
| May 2 | Our paper Silica-on-Silicon Waveguide Quantum Circuits has appeared in Science and was featured on the front cover (see also Editor summary). |
| Apr 11 | Our invited review article Quantum information Processing: Photons promise an exciting route to quantum computing appeared in Laser Focus World. |
| Apr 2 | Our paper with Kevin Resch, Geoff Pryde and Andrew White's group Quantum computing using shortcuts through higher dimensions appeared on the arXiv
See arXiv blog. |
| Mar 31 | Our work with Kevin Resch and Andrew White's group Manipulating Biphotonic Qutrits was reviewed in Nature Photonics April issue's Research Highlights. |
| Mar 29 | For those who speak Italian: Una porta logica NOT a fotoni. |
| Mar 27 | Our paper Silica-on-Silicon Waveguide Quantum Circuits has appeared in Science Express (see full article without subscription). See also Bristol news story. |
| Feb 14 | Our paper Manipulating Biphotonic Qutrits with Kevin Resch and Andrew White's group has appeared in Physical Review Letters (see Physorg news story). |
| Feb 12 | Our paper An All Optical Fibre Quantum Controlled-NOT Gate appeared on the arXiv. |
| Jan 24 | Our paper Experimental Quantum Process Discrimination appeared on the arXiv. |
| Jan 8 | Our work with Prof. Takeuchi's group Beating the Standard Quantum Limit with Four-Entangled Photons has been selected by the Editors of Scientific American for SciAm50 (see Bristol news story). |
| Jun 5 | WE CURRENTLY HAVE TWO PERMANENT FACULTY POSITIONS OPEN |
| Dec 7 | Our paper Optical Quantum Computing has appeared in Science. |
| Nov 30 | Our perspective Precision Without Entanglement has appeared in Science. |
| Nov 29 | Our paper One-way quantum computation with four-dimensional photonic qudits has appeared in Physical Review A. |
| Nov 16 | Our paper Photonic module: An on-demand resource for photonic entanglement has appeared in Physical Review A. |
| Nov 9 | Our paper Entangling photons using a charged quantum dot in a microcavity appeared on the arXiv. |
| Oct 25 | Jeremy has been awarded a £70k Philip Leverhulme Prize. |
| Sep 17 | Our paper Nonclassical Interference and Entanglement Generation Using a Photonic Crystal Fiber Pair Photon Source appeared in Physical Review Letters. |
| Aug 2 | Our paper Time-Reversal and Super-Resolving Phase Measurements appeared in Physical Review Letters
See coverage at Physorg.com. |
| Jul 27 | Jeremy has been awarded a £360k EPSRC grant - Quantum Measurement with Photons. |
| Jul 20 | John and Jeremy have been awarded a £300k EPSRC grant - Microstructured Fibre for Quantum Information - together with William Wadsworth at Bath University. |
| Jul 1 | Our work with Prof. Takeuchi's group Beating the Standard Quantum Limit with Four-Entangled Photons was reviewed in Nature Photonics July issue's Research Highlights. |
| Jul 1 | Jeremy has been awarded a NESTA Crucible Fellowship (see Bristol News) |
| May 18 | Jeremy has been awarded a £1.1M grant - Photonic Quantum Technologies - through the EPSRC Challenging Engineering Programme
See Physorg news story and "Photonic Quantum Technology Research Gets Needed Boost". |
| May 16 | Our paper Entanglement Generation by Fock-State Filtration appeared in Physical Review Letters. |
| May 4 | Our paper Beating the Standard Quantum Limit with Four-Entangled Photons appeared in Science.
See coverage in Science News and New Scientist |