We are happy to announce that Heriot-Watt and our lab in particular will be part of a newly funded UK doctoral training centre: the EPSRC CDT in Applied Quantum Technologies (CDT-AQT). Led by Strathclyde University and with Heriot-Watt and Glasgow University as equal partners, we aim to train up to 80 PhD students in Quantum […]
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The 2022 Nobel prize in physics was awarded jointly to Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger, “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. This is fantastic news for our field. This Nobel has been mooted for some years now, although perhaps there was some speculation […]
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The results for the long-awaited REF2021 UK research assessment exercise have arrived, and Heriot-Watt has done very well, in particular in physics: Heriot-Watt University is top in Scotland for its world-leading (4*) Physics research, in the REF 2021 results released today. Physics also came top in the UK for its world-leading research outputs and saw […]
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We’re proud to announce that our lab is now part of the international QEYSSat science team. QEYSSat is a quantum communication satellite mission initiated and developed by Thomas Jennewein at the University of Waterloo, together with the Canadian Space Agency. The QEYSSat team can be found here. Read our press release announcing the new QEYSSat […]
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Our quantum conference key agreement paper has now been published in Science Advances. Here’s our press release: The world is one step closer to ultimately secure conference calls, thanks to a collaboration between Quantum Communications Hub researchers and their German colleagues, enabling a quantum-secure conversation to take place between four parties simultaneously. The demonstration, led […]
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We’ve had a new paper published together with Brian Gerardot’s group in Applied Physics Letters, highlighted by the editors and on the cover, no less. Chris from my group and Zak have kindly done a writeup for our physics undergrad society newsletter — see below. Quantum information processing requires deterministic, high purity single-photon sources. However, for […]
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The UK national agenda in quantum technology is moving into its second 5-year phase, with all four quantum hubs receiving renewed funding. Having previously been a partner, our lab is now a full member of the Quantum Communications Hub led by the University of York — their press release for the new phase can be found […]
Read MoreOur work on the certification and quantification of multi-level coherence, a collaboration with Marco Piani at the University of Strathclyde, Gerardo Adesso at Nottingham, and Andrew White at the University of Queensland, has recently appeared in PRX. Here’s the press release from the University of Nottingham: The research – Certification and Quantification of Multilevel Quantum Coherence – […]
Read MoreEntanglement usually refers to stronger-than-classical correlations between spatially separated quantum systems. It can however also manifest itself across points in time, in a number of different ways, as discussed in this excellent popular science article by George Musser. Most research on temporal correlations goes back to Leggett and Garg, who showed that subsequent measurements on […]
Read MoreIt’s been almost a year since I last added some news here but that doesn’t mean nothing has happened in the lab. We’ve made some very good progress on one of our major goals, the creation of spectrally pure single photons via parametric downconversion. This progress is summarised in one theory paper published earlier last […]
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