| May 2022 |
- ○ The Quantum Information group bids farewell to students Noah, Kenny, Thomas, and Jonathan. They have submitted and successfully passed the oral viva for their final projects in Theoretical Physics. Congratulations to them for completing their Master degree with our School!
It has been a pleasure working with you; some great work has been accomplished in classical entanglement theory (Noah), theory of genuine Gaussian multipartite entanglement (Kenny), robust state transfer in quantum networks (Thomas), and in resource theory for quantum communication (Jonathan).
- ○ Congratulations to Dr Viktor Nordgren who passed his PhD viva on 25 May 2022!
- ○ Congratulations to Kenny Campbell for winning the MPhys theory project prize for the project co-supervised by Viktor and Natalia.
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| May 2021 |
- ○ The Quantum Information group bids farewell to students Harry and Felipe. Harry recently submitted his dissertation which simulated quantum pulses of light travelling through large waveguide arrays as part of the PhoG project. Felipe conducted an investigation into Grover's algorithm applied to different problems in graph theory.
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| March 2021 |
- ○ Congratulations to Matt Thornton who was recently selected as a finalist in the prestigious STEM for Britain competition. Matt will present his work on the PhoG project to the UK's Parliamentary and Scientific Committee with a poster titled
- ○ Matt was also recently given an “Outstanding Reviewer” award for his service to the IOP journal Quantum Science and Technology.
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| February 2021 |
- ○ The Quantum Information group welcomes Harry Bromley as our new MPhys project student. Harry will work with Matt and Pablo on numerical simulation of the PhoG device.
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| December 2020 |
- ○ Congratulations to Dr Vyome Singh who passed his PhD viva today.
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| September 2020 |
- ○ The Quantum Information group welcomes new PhD student Cailean Wilkinson. Cailean recently completed his MPhys project with Professor Natalia Korolkova and Matthew Thornton, researching quantum steering as a resource for quantum state sharing and teleportation. Cailean will be shared with the group of at Macquarie University.
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| May 2020 |
- ○ Congratulations to Robert, Lewis and Cailean who this week finish their masters degrees. It has been a pleasure working with you; some great work has been accomplished in entanglement theory (Robert), correlation flow in dissipative systems (Lewis), and secure quantum state sharing (Cailean).
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| April 2020 |
- ○ We welcome back Matthew Thornton, who is re-joining the Quantum Information group as a postdoctoral research fellow. Matt will be working on the PhoG project, numerically simulating open quantum systems and quantum pulse propagation.
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| March 2020 |
- ○ Congratulations to Matthew Thornton who has submitted his PhD Thesis, entitled “Agile quantum cryptography and non-classical state generation.”
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| December 2019 |
- ○ We welcome Dr Ladislav Mišta, who is visiting the Quantum Information group. Lada will enjoy detailed discussions with Viktor about multipartite entanglement.
- ○ Natalia, Pablo and Matt were visiting Heriot Watt University this week for the annual meeting for the PhoG project. Pablo gave a talk entitled “Symmetric PhoG,” and Matt gave a talk entitled “PhoG in the pulsed regime.”
- ○ Congratulations to Natalia at her graduation to the rank of Professor!
- ○ We welcome Dmitri Mogilevtsev to St 糖心logo, who is visiting the Quantum Information group. Dmitri will give a talk at the PhoG meeting at Heriot Watt about PhoG design drivers and PhoG in cavity.
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| October 2019 |
- ○ We welcome Robert, Lewis and Cailean as MPhys students in the Quantum Information group. Robert will be studying quantum entanglement, Lewis will work on dissipatively coupled quantum chains, and Cailean will work on secure quantum teleportation and state sharing.
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| August 2019 |
- ○ Congratulations to Natalia, who has recently been promoted to Professor!
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| June 2019 |
- ○ The quantum information group welcome Jesús Diaz Ferrer for a summer internship. Jesús is an Erasmus Mundus International Masters student in Optics and Photonics, and will work on nonlinear pulse propagation in integrated waveguide networks for the PhoG project.
- ○ The quantum information group welcome Jesús Diaz Ferrer for a summer internship. Jesús is an Erasmus Mundus International Masters student in Optics and Photonics, and will work on nonlinear pulse propagation in integrated waveguide networks for the PhoG project.
- ○ Congratulations to Iason Apostolatos who graduates this week. His MPhys project was entitled "Ancilla-controlled quantum computation with generalized interaction."
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| March 2019 |
- ○ Silke Weinfurtner, Friedrich König and Maxime Jaquet are thrilled to inform you that the Royal Society has selected our meeting on analogue gravity as part of its 2019-2020 Scientific Programme. The meeting will be held in London on 9-10 December 2019.
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| February 2019 |
- ○ The quantum information group welcomes Pablo de la Hoz as a postdoctoral researcher. Pablo will be working on the PhoG project.
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| November 2018 |
- ○ . The Quantum Information group has been successful in the first call of the EU Flagship on Quantum Technologies. More information may be found on the project website or the University of St 糖心logo'
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| July 2018 |
- ○ We welcome back Hamish Scott for his summer project. Hamish and Matt will spend July working on Practical Secure Quantum Communication.
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| June 2018 |
- ○ Congratulations to our graduating students: Malaika, Alastair and Hamish.
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| May 2018 |
- ○ Congratulations to Maxime Jacquet who has won the Springer Thesis Prize. His thesis has been published as a book:
- ○ Matt and Ian attended the 25th Central European Workshop in Quantum Optics (CEWQO 2018) in Mallorca, Spain
- ○ Congratulations to all of our undergraduate students for finishing their degrees. We look forward to your graduation in June!
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| September 2017 |
- ○ Welcome to the two new PhD students! Viktor Nordgren will join the Quantum Information group, and Ian Shand will join the Quantum Optics group
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| August 2017 |
- ○ Both Matt and Maxime presented at ICNFP 2017 in Kolymbari, Crete
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| March 2017 |
- ○ We hosted the meeting of
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| September 2016 |
- ○ Welcome to Matthew Thornton who joins the Quantum Information group as a PhD student!
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| June 2016 |
- ○ Maxime presented our work on the science of optical event horizons at in Waterloo, Canada, on 24 June 2016.
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| May 2016 |
- ○ Natalia Korolkova advanced to Reader in Theoretical Quantum Optics in the School of Physics & Astronomy. Congratulations! 20 May 2016
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| January 2016 |
- ○ The Quantum Optics group is glad to welcome Luke Masters for his MPhys project on the multimodal scattering of a probe field at an event horizon in optical fibres (28 Jan 2016).
- ○ Maxime will be presenting our work on the science of event horizons to the MPs in Westminster at SET for Britain 2016 (on 7 March 2016)!
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| November 2015 |
- ○ Our latest paper on the SPIE about our theoretical work on quanta emission from the vacuum came up online on 5 Nov 2015.
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| October 2015 |
- ○ We welcome Michael Lynch-White who joins the Quantum Information group as a CM DTC PhD student. (October 2015)
- ○ Congratulations to Dr Natalia Korolkova who was presented the in Modern Optical Technology, from the Institute for Optics, Information and Photonics, in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the understanding of "quantum discord". (16 Oct 2015)
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| September 2015 |
- ○ Welcome to Vyome Singh who joins the Quantum Optics group as a PhD student! (7 Sep 2015)
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| August 2015 |
- ○ SPIE Quantum Conference 2015 (10 August 2015)
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| July 2015 |
- ○ The Quantum Information group attended the 22nd in Warsaw, Poland. (6-11 July 2015)
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