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Back row: David Evans (PhD student), Dr Marcin Zwierz (research fellow), Dr Michael Hall (research fellow), Ms Ivonne Guevera (PhD student), Mr Nicola Dalla Pozza (visiting PhD student)
Front row: Associate Professor Joan Vaccaro, me, Professor David Pegg (Emeritus),

Previous group photos.

Upcoming theory seminars

Wiseman Group News

2012

December
New Ph.D. student, Shakib Daryanoosh from Iran.

September
Science paper "Quantum-Enhanced Optical-Phase Tracking"

New Ph.D. student, Ivonne Guevara from Colombia.

April
Paper accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett. "Are dynamical quantum jumps detector-dependent?"
by Howard M. Wiseman, Jay M. Gambetta
http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.0069

January
Nature Communications paper “Conclusive quantum steering with superconducting transition edge sensors”
by D. H. Smith, G. Gillett, M. P. de Almeida, C. Branciard, A. Fedrizzi, T. J. Weinhold, A. Lita, B. Calkins, T. Gerrits, H. M. Wiseman, S. W. Nam, and A. G. White,

Brisscience public talk "Are We Living in the Matrix?" available online, given by me on October 31, 2011.

2011

September/October
Farewell to Dr Austin Lund (off to UQ);
Welcome to new researchers, Dr Michael Hall (from ANU) and Dr Marcin Zwierz (from U. of Sheffield).

July
Paper in press in Physics Reports. "Specker's Parable of the Over-protective Seer: A Road to Contextuality, Nonlocality and Complementarity"
by Yeong-Cherng Liang, Robert W. Spekkens, and Howard M. Wiseman
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370157311001517

March
Paper accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett. "Quantum optical waveform conversion"
by D. Kielpinski, J. F. Corney, and H. M. Wiseman
http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.2104

February
Paper accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett. "Fundamental quantum limit to waveform estimation"
by Mankei Tsang, Howard M. Wiseman, and Carlton M. Caves
http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.5407

2010

December
Paper accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett. "How many bits does it take to track an open quantum system?"
by Raisa Karasik and me. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.020406

Paper published in Nature Photonics "Entanglement-enhanced measurement of a completely unknown optical phase"
by Guoyong Xiang, Brendon Higgins, Dominic Berry, me and Geoff Pryde.
(http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.5213) (http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphoton.2010.268.html)

September
Paper published in Nature Physics "Experimental EPR-Steering using Bell-local States" by Dylan Saunders, Steve Jones, me and Geoff Pryde.
(http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0805) (http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nphys1766.html)

We say farewell to (soon to be Dr.) Josh Combes, who will shortly be beginning a post-doc at University of New Mexico with Carl Caves, and to
(soon to be Dr.) Brendon Higgins, who will shortly be beginning a post-doc at University of Waterloo with Thomas Jennewein.

Quantum Measurement and Control by Wiseman and Milburn published by Cambridge University Press.

Please visit the authors' website www.quantum-measurement-and-control.org (enables user contributions of errata etc.)

EARLIER WISEMAN GROUP NEWS

The Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technologywas established as an Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in 2011. (It succeeds earlier ARC -funded Centres going back to 2000.) It has research programs at seven Australian Universities: New South Wales, Melbourne, ANU, Griffith, Queensland, ADFA, and Sydney. It comprises four multi-University Work Package: Quantum Communication, Optical Quantum Computation, Silicon Quantum Computation, and Quantum Resources & Integration.

I am leader (with Prof. Lloyd Hollenberg) of the Quantum Resources & Integration Work-Package, and also a member of the Executive Committee of the Centre.

Griffith University hosts two programs, a Quantum Information Theory Program headed by me, and an experimental Optical Quantum Information Program headed by Assoc. Prof. Geoff Pryde.

My Theory Program supports wide-ranging theoretical research in quantum information, underpinning both quantum communication and quantum computation, and uncovering new implications and applications of the quantum information perspective. It currently comprises me (Program Manager), Assoc. Prof. Joan Vaccaro, Dr. Austin Lund, Dr. Raisa Karasik, plus PhD students. For more information see the Program Page on the CQCT website.

Related Experimental Laboratories at Griffith

In the Centre for Quantum Dynamics at Griffith University we have two quantum laboratories with which I collaborate:

The quantum optical information laboratory of Assoc. Prof. Geoff Pryde, which does research in quantum information, measurement, control, and foundations.

The trapped ion laboratory of Assoc. Prof. Dave Kielpinski, which does research on quantum information processing.

Positions Available

Unfortunately I am not able to offer any post-doctoral positions at the present time.

However, the Australian Research council offers Early Career Researchers Awards and other Fellowships, while Griffith University has a Postdoctoral and Research Fellowship Scheme (which requires half-funding from me however). After reading the material, if you are interested then please contact me.

New PhD students interested in studying in my group are welcome. Scholarships are available for domestic and overseas students with 1st Class Honours or equivalent (typically >80% in the 4th or higher year of tertiary studies, including a research project equivalent to at least one semester of full time study). Please contact me if you are interested. For details about how to apply please see http://www.griffith.edu.au/higher-degrees-research/how-to-apply