Look, a butterfly!

I have a new paper on the arXiv:

We present an analysis of squeezed single photon states as a resource for teleportation of coherent state qubits and propose proof-of-principle experiments for the demonstration of coherent state teleportation and entanglement swapping. We include an analysis of the squeezed vacuum as a simpler approximation to small-amplitude cat states. We also investigate the effects of imperfect sources and ineffcient detection on the proposed experiments.

This is an incredible video!

I found a Siamese strawberry this morning!

I hope the weather stays nice for today’s BBQ!

I just stumbled upon this old, but very interesting, post by Theodore Gray, where he describes how he used Mathematica to efficiently generate some pretty impressive movies. If you don’t want to read the post, then you must still check out this cool periodic table movie.

Another example of quantum PhD students going creative (mad!)

Some Griffith Uni PhD students get creative while their supervisor’s away

I have been having all sorts of fun with Wigner Functions, and Mathematica’s ability to export movies, over the last few months so I decided to put my newly acquired skills to (hopefully) good use and made a little tutorial-type movie. The movie aims to aid intuition for how certain states behave in phase space. It is not designed to be “stand alone”, but may be useful for someone who is taking a course in quantum optics.

This is only my first attempt at making something like this, so if anyone has any comments/suggestions/corrections, I would love to hear from you.

Went to Big Day Out last month. It was unreal. Rage Against The Machine blew me away.

What Kari said.