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Quantum Science and Technology
Quantum gravimtery for ground water mapping and subsurface planetary structure mapping


Miniature absolute gravimeter for long-term gravity surveys
by interrogating the position of a falling test mass using a laser interferometer. Our vision is to develop and prototype a miniaturised absolute gravimeter by
leveraging modern vacuum, laser, and micro-electromechanical systems.
Dr Samuel Legge, Professor John Close, Prof Patrick Kluth, Dr Giovanni Guccione


Metasurface polarization optics and quantum photonics


Satellite based geodesy


Quantum photonics with nanostructured metasurfaces


Experimental quantum simulation with ultracold metastable Helium atoms in an optical lattice


Mass-entangled ultracold helium atoms


Synthesising non-Hermitian gauge fields for microcavity exciton polaritons


Exploring physics with neural networks
Dr Aaron Tranter, Professor Ben Buchler, Professor Ping Koy Lam


Quantum multi-parameter estimation


Integrated quantum photonics
Prof Andrey Sukhorukov, Dr Jinyong Ma, Dr Jihua Zhang, Prof Dragomir Neshev


Beam matching using machine learning


Dual torsion pendulum for quantum noise limited sensing


Synthetic multi-dimensional photonics


Quantum super resolution


Non-equilibrium quantum condensation of microcavity exciton polaritons


Quantum emitters in 2D materials


Optical quantum memory


Quantum squeezed states for interferometric gravitational-wave detectors
Distinguished Prof David McClelland, Professor Daniel Shaddock, Dr Bram Slagmolen


Atomic magnetometer for exploring physics beyond the standard model


How does a quantum system reach equilibrium?


Interactions between antimatter and ultracold atoms
Dr Sean Hodgman, Professor Stephen Buckman, Dr Joshua Machacek


Vibration control for optical interferometry
Microfabricated quantum ring atomic-gyroscope


Laser levitation of a macroscopic mirror


Efficient optical interconnect for quantum computers
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