ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems

EQuS is a multi-institutional collaborative Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence. We are working to study and exploit the strangest features of quantum physics.

Quantum Measurement & Control

Address challenges in quantum limited measurement and control enabling demonstrations of solutions to control engineering problems in each technology platform.

Quantum-Enabled Sensors & Metrology

Delivers unprecendented levels of sensitivity and precision in application of quantum systems for sensing, biomedical imaging, and metrology.

Synthetic Quantum Systems & Quantum Simulation

Produces novel states of light and matter exhibiting strong quantum mechanical correlations that enable simulations of complex interacting quantum systems.

Fulbright scholarship awarded to PhD student David Waddington

Tuesday, 16 April, 2013

PhD Student at the University of Sydney School of Physics ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS) David Waddington, has been named the prestigious 2013 ANSTO Fulbright Scholar.

The scholarship will take Mr Waddinton to the Martinos Centre for Biomedical Imaging at Harvard University in Boston for 12 months. He will be working in the Low Field Imaging Laboratory and will be leaving at the end of the year.

PhD student David Waddington, awarded the 2013 ANSTO Fulbright scholarship

More certain about Heisenberg's uncertainty principle

Monday, 8 April, 2013

A University of Queensland (UQ) physicist has been able to clarify the limits imposed by the famous uncertainty principle of quantum theory.

Dr Cyril Branciard, a researcher in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems based in the School of Mathematics and Physics, has published his latest research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle tells us that it is in general impossible to measure, for instance, both the location and speed of a quantum object with perfect accuracy.

Staff Profile

Gerard Milburn

Gerard Milburn obtained a PhD in theoretical Physics from the University of Waikato in 1982 for work on squeezed states of light and quantum nondemolition measurements. He was appointed to a postdoctoral research assistantship in the Department of Mathematics, Imperial college London in 1983.In 1984 he was awarded a Royal Society Fellowship to work in the Quantum Optics group of Professor P. Knight, at Imperial College. In 1985 was appointed lecturer at The Australian National University and in... Read more

Jason Twamley

I am the Director of the Macquarie University for Quantum Science & Technology (QSciTech), Node Manager for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems, and Professor of Quantum Information Science at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Macquarie University.I am a theorist who works in quantum science. I have worked in topics ranging from the theory of quantum wormholes in quantum cosmology through to the theoretical designs for superconducting quantum devices. I... Read more

Stephen Bartlett

I am a Professor in the School of Physics at The University of Sydney, and part of the Quantum Information Theory group. I am a theoretical physicist, pursuing fundamental research in quantum physics. My particular focus is on quantum information theory, including the theory of quantum computing, as well as the foundational issues of quantum mechanics.Professor Stephen Bartlett completed his Ph.D. in mathematical physics at the University of Toronto in 2000. Moving to Australia, he... Read more

Michael Tobar

Received the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Western Australia, Perth, W.A., Australia, in 1994. He is currently an ARC Laureate Fellow with the School of Physics, University of Western Australia. His research interests encompass the broad discipline of frequency and quantum metrology, precision measurements, and precision tests of the fundamental of physics. He is also the focal point of Australian participation in space experiments involving precision clocks and oscillators.... Read more

Michael Biercuk

Dr. Michael J. Biercuk is an experimental physicist and the Primary Investigator in the Quantum Control Laboratory at the University of Sydney. He holds a continuing (tenured) teaching and research appointment in the Faculty of Science at Sydney. Michael’s specialties include quantum physics, quantum control, quantum error suppression, ion trapping, nanoelectronics, and precision metrology.Michael was educated in the United States, earning his undergraduate degree from the... Read more

Warwick Bowen

There is a growing need for technologies that can detect and characterize nanoparticles in gaseous and liquid environments, due to their relevance to areas such as drug delivery, atmospheric pollution, and biodefense. Optical whispering gallery mode resonators enable parallel label free detection of nanoparticle mass, refractive index, and size. Their strong spatial and temporal optical confinement provides, in principle, ultrahigh sensitivity in an on-chip platform in both liquid and gaseous... Read more

Andrew Doherty

Associate Professor Andrew Doherty is a theoretical physicist with research interests in quantum control and quantum information. He holds an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in the School of Physics at The University of Sydney. He recieved a B.Sc (Hons) in Physics from the University of Canterbury in 1995 and his Ph.D in quantum optics under the supervision of Professor Dan Walls at The University of Auckland in 2000. From 2000 to 2003 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the... Read more

Gabriel Molina-...

I am the group leader of QIRON (Quantum InteRactiOns with Nanoparticles). I know the acronym is rather contrived, but who doesn't want to be in a group based on a mythical centaur who was the master and teacher of several heroes? My research focuses on the spatial properties of light. For example, I am using the spatial modes of light as a tool to prove nanostructures and to store and retrieve quantum information, using engineered quantum states.In my group we are experimentally combining... Read more

Jean-Michel Le Floch

Jean-Michel Le Floch was born in February 1977. He received his PhD degree from both the University of Limoges, France and the University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth, Australia. During his thesis, he studied high Q dielectric resonators using Bragg reflectors and also whispering gallery modes for metrology applications. In 2007, he was working as an engineer at XLIM research institute from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Limoges on microwave devices for... Read more

Tyler Neely

Dr. Neely was born and educated in the United States, completing his B.S. in Physics and Mathematics at the University of Oregon. He then attended the University of Arizona's College of Optical Sciences. In Arizona, he worked on experiments investigating superfluid vortices and critical phenomena in Bose-Einstein Condensates (BEC), in the group of A/Prof Brian Anderson. On completing his Ph.D. he completed a postdoctoral study at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in... Read more