ANU student James Monro has won Thomas H Laby medal for the best Honours or Masters thesis from an Australian University, awarded by the Australian Institute of Physics (AIP). Mr Monro’s honours thesis was entitled Searching for Axion-Like Particles...

Dr Sophie (Jie) Zhao will tour Australia in 2027 as the Women in Physics Medallist, sharing her research on quantum technologies enabled by correlated light. The tour includes the Marie Curie Public Lectures, as well as research colloquia and school...

Sending quantum information through a chain of qubits, like energy through a Newton’s cradle, could be the key to faster operations, and take quantum computing to the next level. The quantum Newton’s cradle design shows how a laser can be used...

New research from the Department of Quantum Sciences and Technology (DQST) is helping to define the quality of quantum measurements. “A collaborator asked us to help work out how good their measurements were, and to our surprise we realised no one had explored...

A new protocol for encoding quantum data, based on throwing data away, could improve security of quantum communications as much as threefold. The technique, which was developed by ANU researchers, can be applied to any platform, even as post processing,...

Physicists have devised a way to combine an atomic magnetometer with a gyroscope, using a pulsed laser system and a simple mixture of gases. The new technique will not only be a radical improvement for precision measurements of rotation, but has the potential...

Physicists have developed an ultra-compact quantum imager, based on an extremely sensitive high-resolution technique known as quantum ghost imaging. The new system uses a metasurface only 300 nanometres thick to generate entangled pairs of photons and makes...

One of quantum technology’s most powerful tools is interference, in which two or more identical particles interact in surprising ways – sometimes adding together, but sometimes subtracting from each other. This property can be used for quantum...

The mystery of the possible quantum nature of gravity could be solved with lasers – a major contrast with the conventional approach of using masses, say ANU physicists. Quantum mechanics’ success in describing light and particle behaviour...

Running your quantum system as a lottery turns out to be a way to improve the transmission of data via quantum teleportation. Researchers at the Research School of Physics used a probabilistic twist to develop a new transmission protocol that set a new record...

In a string of accurate quantum experiments, physicists have violated Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle – one of the icons of quantum weirdness, with its counter-intuitive statement that all measurements are essentially fuzzy and cannot be improved...

A simple piece of carefully chosen glass could be the key to cancelling out noise in extremely precise quantum sensors. Dr Jiayi Qin, from ANU Quantum Optics Group, said this simple solution to photothermal noise – disruptions to experiments due to heat...

ANU launches world's most popular online random number generator powering research simulations and gaming, and inspiring artists' works and children's names on  Amazon Web Services' marketplace.  The Australian National University's (ANU) ANU Quantum...

An international team of researchers has developed a technology that manipulates quantum states of light at noise levels that are quieter than the sound of silence. The technology is an important development towards quantum computers, which could solve...

A new study from The Australian National University (ANU) has found a number of 2D materials can not only withstand being sent into space, but potentially thrive in the harsh conditions. It could influence the type of materials used to build everything...

There’s plenty of speculation about what artificial intelligence, or AI, will look like in the future, but researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) are already harnessing its power. The group from the ANU Department of Quantum...

The Australian National University (ANU) has welcomed ACT Government funding to bolster high-technology quantum communications for the space industry. ACT Minister for Higher Education, Training and Research Meegan Fitzharris has announced $375,000 in government...

Optical communications could be enhanced by controlling the amount of twist in the light, allowing you to send more information with fewer photons. Scientists from Australia, Austria and Canada have broken the world record for twisting light, opening...

Physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) have brought quantum computing a step closer to reality by stopping light in a new experiment. Lead researcher Jesse Everett said controlling the movement of light was critical to developing future...

A high-technology company started by physicists from The Research School of Physics and Engineering has won a major international award for its quantum cyber-security technology. QuintessenceLabs was named one of the top emerging innovation companies...

Physicists from The Australian National University have shown that three lasers are better than one when it comes to levitating small but visible objects on light, designing an extremely precise sensor by floating a mirror on a tripod of lasers. “Levitation...

Researchers at The Australian National University have developed the fastest random number generator in the world by listening to the ‘sounds of silence’. The researchers – Professor Ping Koy Lam, Dr Thomas Symul and Dr Syed Assad...