Beyond Binary Quantum Information
Sophie and Mehul had a great time teaching P5 and P6 students at Nether Currie Primary School in Edinburgh about light and optical interference. The students showed an incredible level of engagement and even helped us align a Mach-Zehnder interferometer! We were finally able to answer the question: how loud does a P5 have to yell to change the interferometer phase by pi?
Writing in the Royal Society of Edinburgh blog, Mehul describes how shaping light in space and time can enable the internet of the future!
Mehul recently took part in STEM@Helix at the Falkirk Science Festival where he spoke about quantum entanglement with the help of some coloured blocks and two lab snacks boxes. It was harder than expected, but the audience had some particularly insightful questions about the quantum world and science careers!
We recently celebrated five fantastic years of BBQLab with a proper international BBQLab BBQ and a five-dimensional cake!
We recently attended the very exciting CLEO 2023 conference in San Jose, CA. The conference included a fascinating range of talks from academia and industry on topics as diverse as deep neural networks, multi-mode fibres, and critical coupling. Mehul presented an invited talk on “harnessing complexity for manipulating spatiotemporal entanglement” at the Symposium on Enabling Highly Multimode Nonlinear and Quantum Photonics, organised by Logan Wright and Marco Piccardo. He also presented a talk on our work on our work on noise and loss-robust quantum steering in the Quantum Network Protocols session. Besides all the great science, it was also very nice to catch up with old friends and colleagues from around the world!
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