Beyond Binary Quantum Information
We are looking for a motivated and dazzling postdoctoral researcher to join our group. If you are as excited about Quantum Mechanics as we are, and are interested in joining a vibrant research group working at the forefront of the quantum technological revolution, read our opening for more information!
We will be presenting at our research at the Fifth Quantum Information and Measurement Conference (QIM V) in Rome, from April 4th to 6th, 2019.
Come and hear about our work at the talks and poster below, or come find us at one of the (Italian) coffee breaks to chat!
TALKS
Thursday, April 4th, 2:30-2:45 PM: Room 2, Quantum Optics – T3B.2
Quantifying High-Dimensional Entanglement with only Two Measurement Settings, M. Malik; J. Bavaresco; N. Herrera; C. Klockl; P. Erker; M. Pivoluska; N. Friis; M. Huber
Thursday, April 4th, 2:45-3:00 PM: Room 1, Quantum Information I – T3A.3
Quantum Information Experiments with Multiple Photons in One and High-Dimensions: Concepts and Experiments, M. Erhard; M. Krenn; A. Zeilinger; X. Gu; M. Malik
POSTERS
Thursday, April 4th, 5:15 PM: Poster Room, Poster Session I – T5A.88
Near-Perfect Measurement of Photonic Spatial Modes, N.A. Herrera Valencia; F. Bouchard; F. Brandt; R. Fickler; M. Huber; M. Malik
We’d like to welcome our first PhD student Natalia Herrera, who joins us from Bogotá, Colombia.
Natalia comes to us with a wealth of experience, having just completed her Erasmus Mundus Europhotonics Masters thesis at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Munich, as well as a research internship at IQOQI Vienna.
We are very excited for her to join the BBQ Lab!
After a long and arduous trans-channel effort between Edinburgh and Vienna, our review on entanglement certification is out in the journal Nature Reviews Physics!
This review attempts to bridge the language gap between the theory and experiment, and exemplifies the academic space where our group most likes to work—a harmonious blend of quantum information theory, quantum photonics, and lots of good coffee of course!
Check out Nature’s On Your Wavelength blog for a really nice piece by Marcus on how this review came together.
The polarisation of a photon is a quantum photonics workhorse for many reasons—optical devices such as waveplates and polarising beam splitters make it possible to manipulate and measure polarisation states with ease, allowing their integration into quantum information technologies.
While photonic spatial modes promise high-dimensional quantum information systems with massive information capacities and an increased robustness to noise, tools for manipulating and measuring them are far from perfect.
In our paper published today in Optics Express, we demonstrate a new technique that allows us to measure the azimuthal and radial modes of a photon using a single phase screen with greater than 99% accuracy! We expect our method will enable quantum and classical communication systems that exploit the full information-carrying potential of light.
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