Look, a butterfly!

I have a new paper on the arXiv entitled, Optimised generation of heralded Fock states using parametric down conversion, in which we characterise the effects of spectral entanglement and higher order photon-number contributions on the generation of pure photon number states using PDC. Beware, it’s looooong, but it has lots of pretty pictures toward the […]

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 […]

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. […]

One of my figures from our paper on modeling optical tweezers has made it onto the front cover of the Journal of Optics A special issue on optical micromanipulation. The figure shows a cube trapped in optical tweezers, starting at some initial position, then being rotated into its equilibrium position by the force and torque […]

We had a partial solar eclipse this afternoon. I got a couple of photos. It was only 14% coverage in Brisbane, but I’ve never seen a solar eclipse before, so it was very exciting.

While in Vienna, I had the pleasure of meeting Reinhold Bertlmann, who was kind enough to show me his socks!!!

The first announcement for QCMC 2008:
Dear Colleagues,
This is the first announcement of the Ninth International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (QCMC), which will be held at the University of Calgary, Canada, on August 19 to 24, 2008.
The scope of the conference will be similar to that of previous meetings in the series and […]