Old Wiseman Group News
2020
Farewell and Congratulations to Dr Nariman Saadatmand, moving to a research position with
Quantum Brilliance, Australia.
Paper in Nature Physics
Travis J. Baker, Seyed N. Saadatmand, Dominic W. Berry, and Howard M. Wiseman,
The Heisenberg limit for laser coherence
Paper in Nature Physics
Kok-Wei Bong, Aníbal Utreras-Alarcón, Farzad Ghafari, Yeong-Cherng Liang, Nora Tischler, Eric G. Cavalcanti, Geoff J. Pryde, and Howard M. Wiseman,
A strong no-go theorem on the Wigner's friend paradox
Paper in Nature Physics
Leigh S. Martin, William P. Livingston, Shay Hacohen-Gourgy, Howard M. Wiseman, and Irfan Siddiqi,
Implementation of a canonical phase measurement with quantum feedback
Farewell and Congratulations to Dr Areeya Chantasri, moving to a continuing position in Mahidol University, Thailand.
Paper in Phys. Rev. Lett.
Wojciech Górecki, Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański, Howard M. Wiseman, and Dominic W. Berry,
π-Corrected Heisenberg Limit
2019
Welcome New Ph.D. student Mr Qiucheng Song.
Paper in Phys. Rev. X
Farzad Ghafari et al.,
Dimensional quantum memory advantage in the simulation of stochastic processes
Paper in Science Advances
Ya Xiao, Howard M. Wiseman, Jin-Shi Xu, Yaron Kedem, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo, Observing momentum disturbance in double-slit 'which-way' measurements
Welcome New PhD student, Mr Teerawat Chalermpusitarak (from Mahidol University, Thailand).
Paper in Phys. Rev. Lett.
Kiarn T. Laverick, Areeya Chantasri, and Howard M. Wiseman, Quantum state smoothing for linear Gaussian systems
Welcome New Postdoc (AUSMURI): Dr Yuanlong Wang (from UNSW-Canberra).
Paper in Phys. Rev. Lett.
Chao Zhang, Shuming Cheng, Li Li, ..., Michael J. W. Hall, Howard M. Wiseman, and Geoff J. Pryde, Experimental validation of quantum steering ellipsoids and tests of volume monogamy relations
Welcome New Postdoc (AUSMURI): Dr Behnam Tonekaboni (from UQ).
2018
Welcome New Ph.D. student Mr Aníbal Utreras-Alarcón
Paper in Nature Communications
Shakib Daryanoosh, Sergei Slussarenko, Dominic W. Berry, Howard M. Wiseman, and Geoff J. Pryde, Experimental optical phase measurement approaching the exact Heisenberg limit
Paper in Phys. Rev. Lett.
Nora Tischler, Farzad Ghafari, Travis J. Baker, ... Howard M. Wiseman, and Geoff J. Pryde, Conclusive Experimental Demonstration of One-Way Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering
Paper in Physics Reports
Li Li, Michael J.W. Hall, and Howard M. Wiseman, Concepts of quantum non-Markovianity: A hierarchy
Congratulations to Dr Eric Cavalcanti on gaining a Future Fellowship and a continuing position at Griffith! Now there are three theorists in quantum information / quantum foundations on faculty in CQD.
Congratulations to Dr Gerardo Paz Silva for gaining a $3M AUSMURI grant for 3 years
(with myself, Dr Chris Ferrie at UTS and Prof. Andrea Morello at UNSW). It is an Australian partner to a US MURI grant
Congratulations to graduating PhD student: Dr Shuming Cheng.
Long-term visitor this year: Ms Ya Cao from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
Welcome New Ph.D. student Mr Kiarn Laverick.
2017
Farewell to: Dr Michael Hall (after 6 years!)
Congratulations to graduating PhD student: Dr Li (Kenny) Li.
Paper in Optica
Xiang Zhan, Eric G. Cavalcanti, Jian Li, Zhihao Bian, Yongsheng Zhang, Howard M. Wiseman, and Peng Xue, Experimental generalized contextuality with single-photon qubits
Welcome New Postdoc: Dr Nariman Saadatmand (from UQ).
Paper in NPJ Quantum Information
Bo Qi, Zhibo Hou, Yuanglong Wang, Daoyi Dong, Han-Sen Zhong, Li Li, Guo-Yong Xiang, Howard M. Wiseman, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo, Adaptive quantum state tomography via linear regression estimation: Theory and two-qubit experiment
Welcome New Postdoc: Dr Areeya Chantasri (from Rochester).
Paper in Science Adv.
Matthew S. Palsson, Mile Gu, Joseph Ho, Howard M. Wiseman, and Geoff J. Pryde, Experimentally modelling stochastic processes with less memory by the use of a quantum processor
Paper in Phys. Rev. Lett.
Sergei Slussarenko, Morgan M. Weston, Jun-Gang Li, Nicholas Campbell, Howard M. Wiseman, and Geoff J. Pryde, Quantum state discrimination using the minimum average number of copies
I was elected as a Fellow of The Optical Society (OSA)
2016
Congratulations to graduating PhD students: Dr Shakib Daryanoosh (off to Macquarie) and Dr Ivonne Guevara.
Congratulations to DECRA (ARC fellowship) recipient: Dr Gerardo Paz Silva .
Paper in Phys. Rev. Lett.
Sabine Wollmann, Nathan Walk, Adam J. Bennet, Howard M. Wiseman, and Geoff J. Pryde, ''Observation of Genuine One-Way Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering''
Long-term visitor this year: Ms Yu Xiang from Peking University.
Paper in Science Adv.
D. H. Mahler, L. Rozema, K. Fisher, L. Vermeyden, K. J. Resch, H. M. Wiseman, and A. Steinberg, ''Experimental nonlocal and surreal Bohmian trajectories''
2015
Paper in Phys. Rev. Lett.
Ivonne Guevara and Howard Wiseman, ''Quantum State Smoothing''
Paper in Phys. Rev. X
Dominic Berry et al., ''Quantum Bell-Ziv-Zakai Bounds and Heisenberg Limits for Waveform Estimation''
Farewell to: Dr Nathan Walk (off to Oxford!).
Paper in Nature Comms.
Maria Fuwa et al., ''Experimental proof of nonlocal wavefunction collapse for a single particle using homodyne measurements''
Special Issue on Steering
Cavalcanti, Broadbent, Wallborn and Wiseman (eds.), ''80 YEARS OF STEERING AND THE EINSTEIN-PODOLSKY-ROSEN PARADOX''
New Postdoc: Dr Gerardo Paz-Silva (from Dartmouth).
2014
Paper in Physical Review X:
Michael J. W. Hall, Dirk-Andre Deckert, and Howard M. Wiseman,
''Quantum phenomena modelled by interactions between many classical worlds''
Long-term visitors this year:
Dr. Jun-gang Li from Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), and Ms Areeya Chantasri from Rochester University.
New Postdoc: Dr Nathan Walk (from UQ).
New PhD student: Mr. Shuming Cheng (from CAS).
2013
September/October
We say farewell to Dr. Marcin Zwierz (off to Warszaw).
We welcome a returning Ph.D. student, Kenny Li.
Paper published in Phys. Rev. Lett.
"Stochastic Heisenberg limit: Optimal estimation of a fluctuating phase"
May-June
Visiting Ph.D. student, Colin Teo, from National University of
Singapore.
Paper published in Phys. Rev. Lett.
"Experimental Test of Universal Complementarity Relations"
2012
December
New Ph.D. student,
Shakib Daryanoosh from Iran.
September
Science paper "Quantum-Enhanced Optical-Phase Tracking"
New Ph.D. student, Ivonne Guevara from Colombia.
April
Paper
accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett. "Are dynamical quantum jumps
detector-dependent?"
by Howard M. Wiseman, Jay M. Gambetta
http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.0069
January
Nature
Communications paper "Conclusive
quantum steering with superconducting transition edge sensors"
by D. H. Smith, G. Gillett, M. P. de Almeida, C. Branciard, A.
Fedrizzi, T. J. Weinhold, A. Lita, B. Calkins, T. Gerrits, H. M.
Wiseman, S. W. Nam, and A. G. White,
Brisscience public
talk "Are
We Living in the Matrix?" available online, given by me on
October 31, 2011.
I have been elected as a
FAPS (Fellow of the American Physical Society).
2011
September/October
Farewell to Dr Austin Lund (off to UQ);
Welcome to new researchers, Dr Michael Hall (from ANU) and Dr Marcin
Zwierz (from U. of Sheffield).
July
Paper
in press in Physics Reports. "Specker's Parable
of the Over-protective Seer: A Road to Contextuality, Nonlocality and
Complementarity"
by Yeong-Cherng Liang, Robert W. Spekkens, and Howard M. Wiseman
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370157311001517
March
Paper
accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett. "Quantum optical waveform
conversion"
by D. Kielpinski, J. F. Corney, and H. M. Wiseman
http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.2104
February
Paper
accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett. "Fundamental quantum limit
to waveform estimation"
by Mankei Tsang, Howard M. Wiseman, and Carlton M. Caves
http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.5407
2010
December
Paper accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett.
"How many bits does it take to track an open quantum system?"
by Raisa Karasik and me. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.020406
Paper published in Nature Photonics"Entanglement-enhanced measurement of a
completely unknown optical phase"
by Guoyong Xiang, Brendon Higgins, Dominic Berry, me and Geoff Pryde.
(http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.5213)
(http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphoton.2010.268.html)
September
Paper published in Nature Physics"Experimental EPR-Steering using Bell-local States" by
Dylan Saunders, Steve Jones, me and Geoff Pryde.
(http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0805)
(http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nphys1766.html)
We say farewell to (soon to be
Dr.) Josh Combes, who will shortly be beginning a post-doc at University of
New�Mexico with Carl Caves, and to
(soon to be Dr.) Brendon Higgins, who will shortly be beginning a post-doc at
University of Waterloo with Thomas Jennewein.
July
Grant success: Centre for Quantum Computation
and Communication Technology. (ARC Centre of Excellence 2011-17)
May
The 2007 Nature paper "Entanglement-free Heisenberg-limited phase estimation",
has been chosen by the editors of
Nature Milestones: Photons (2010), for the
Fundamentals NPG library --- one of 11 reprinted papers in
Nature Publishing Group journals, covering the period 1926-2010.
http://www.nature.com/milestones/milephotons/library/fundamentals/index.html
February
Paper published in Phys. Rev.
Lett. 104, 093601�"Adaptive Optical Estimation Using
Time-Symmetric Quantum Smoothing"� (http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v104/i9/e093601)
2009
December
Paper accepted as a Rapid Comm. in Phys. Rev. A"Replacing
quantum feedback with open-loop control and quantum filtering" by Josh Combes,
me and Andrew Scott. (arXiv:0908.0198)�
November
Quantum Measurement and Control
by Wiseman and Milburn nowpublished
by CambridgeUniversity
Press.
Please visit the authors' website �www.quantum-measurement-and-control.org
�(enables user contributions of errata etc.)
We
welcome a new Ph.D. student, David Evans from UQ.�
Paper accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett."Mixed state discrimination using
optimal control" (arXiv:0909.1572)
October
David Pegg has been
appointed Professor Emeritus of the University.
September
We say farewell to Dr Andrew Scott, and welcome a new postdoc in CQCT,
Dr Raisa Karasik�from Berkeley.
July
Grant success: Dr Austin Lund
has been awarded a Griffith University postdoctoral fellowship.
February
We welcome a new postdoc, Dr Samuel Colin from PI, funded by PIAF, the Perimeter
Institute Australia Foundations Partnership.
January
Text-book Quantum Measurement and Control
(Wiseman and Milburn)delivered to
CambridgeUniversity
Press, nine years after submitting the synopsis!
2008
October
ARC Grant
success:
1. Discovery Project: Geoff Pryde (GU), Steve Bartlett (USyd), Andrew Doherty
(UQ) and me: "Quantum limits in measurement and communication"
2. Postdoctoral Fellowship: Eric Cavalcanti: "Quantum Steering, Nonlocality,
and Foundations"
September
Paper accepted to Phys.
Rev. Lett. by me and Jay Gambetta,
"Pure-state quantum trajectories for general non-Markovian
systems do not exist" (arXiv:0806.3101)
Back from long service leave!
August
Steve Jones has sumbited his Ph.D. thesis.
June
We welcome a new postdoc, Dr Austin Lund from UQ. I'm going on
long-service leave!
March
I have been elected as a
FAA (Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science).
Paper accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett.
by Josh Combes, me, and Kurt Jacobs, "Rapid
Measurement of Quantum Systems using Feedback Control" (arXiv:0712.3620)
2007
October
We say farewell to Dr Jay Gambetta (off to Waterloo), and welcome a new
postdoc, Dr Eric Cavalcanti, formerly from the University of Queensland.
September
Paper accepted to Nature!
Entitled "Entanglement-Free Heisenberg-Limited Phase Estimation" (quant-ph/0709.2996) it was authored
by me, with fellow-theoreticians Steve Bartlett (Sydney) and Dominic Berry
(Macquarie) and experimentalists in our Centre for Quantum Dynamics: Geoff Pryde and
his student Brendon Higgins. It reports the first-ever experimental
demonstration of a phase measurement operating at the fundamental limit allowed
by quantum mechanics.
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