Quantum Computing tutorial:
Quantum Computing tutorial presented by Stephen Bartlett
at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2005 in Adelaide: Please click
here for PDF files of the tutorial.
Students:
PhD and Honours
projects for 2009 at the University of Sydney: Please contact
me about Honours and PhD opportunities in the exciting fields of quantum
information, computation, cryptography, and foundations.
Current and Future Visitors:
- Jeremy O'Brien
(University of Bristol, UK), USyd International Visiting Research Fellow, Nov/Dec 2008
News:
- 21/4/2008: Yeong-Cherng Liang has joined the Quantum Information Theory group as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome, Yeong-Cherng!
- 13/3/2008: Steve's paper with J.-C. Boileau, Lana Sheridan, and Martin Laforest, on "Quantum reference frames and the classification of rotationally-invariant maps," has been published in the Journal of Mathematical Physics. See publications.
- 23/1/2008: The second
Sydney Quantum Information Theory Workshop, organised by Steve Bartlett, was
successfully held this week in Coogee, Sydney, Australia, with 35 Australian and international
attendees. Thanks to all who participated.
- 21/1/2008: David Jennings has joined the Quantum Information Theory group as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome, David!
- 30/11/2007: Tom Griffin, Matt Palmer and Lisa Torlina have completed their Honours in the Quantum Information Theory group, all with First Class. Congratulations!
- 15/11/2007: New paper published in Nature! In collaboration with Brendon Higgins, Howard Wiseman and Geoff Pryde from Griffith University and Dominic Berry from Macquarie, Steve's new result on "Entanglement-free Heisenberg-limited phase estimation" has been published in the premier scientific journal Nature. This paper reports the first-ever experimental demonstration of a phase measurement operating at the fundamental limit allowed by quantum mechanics. See publications. See also Editor's summary and News and Views by Jon Dowling in Nature, and Perspectives by Jeremy O'Brien in Science.
- 1/11/2007: Stein Olav Skrøvseth has joined the Quantum Information Theory group as a Norwegian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome, Stein Olav!
- 24/10/2007: Applications are open for a Postdoctoral Fellow
in Quantum Information Theory to join our group, starting in 2008. The advertisement can be found here.
Please contact me if you have any queries about this position.
- 26/9/2007: ARC Grant Success! Steve is the sole Chief Investigator on
a major Australian Research Council Discovery Project,
"Quantum-enhanced reference systems,"
funded at $317,000 over the three year period 2008-2010.
- 28/8/2007: Michelle Rigozzi has left to pursue a PhD at the University of Cambridge. All the best, Michelle!
- 6/8/2007: Stephen has been promoted to Senior Lecturer, effective 1 January 2008.
- 9-13/7/2007: The Quantum Information Theory group has hosted the premier international conference on quantum control - Principles and Applications of Control in Quantum Systems - at the Darlington Centre, University of Sydney. Thank you to everyone who participated!
- 28/6/2007: Alex Gray has completed his Honours in the Quantum Information Theory group. Congratulations, Alex!
- 5/4/2007: Steve, Terry Rudolph and Rob Spekkens have written an extensive review on "Reference frames, superselection rules, and quantum information," which has been published in the prestigious Reviews of Modern Physics. See publications.
- 22/2/2007: Many new faces! Michelle Rigozzi, Tom Griffin, Matthew Palmer, and Lisa Torlina join the
Quantum Information Theory group. Welcome, everyone!
- 24/1/2007: Steve's paper with Aggie Branczyk, Paulo Mendonca, Alexei Gilchrist and Andrew Doherty, on "Quantum control of a single qubit," has been published in Physical Review A. See publications.
- 21/12/2006: Steve's paper with Steve Jones, Howard Wiseman, John Vaccaro and Damien Pope, on "Entanglement and Symmetry: A Case Study in Superselection Rules, Reference Frames, and Beyond," has been published in Physical Review A. See publications.
- 1/12/2006: Daniel Yardley receives a First Class for his Honours in the Quantum Information Theory group. Congratulations, Daniel!
- 29/11/2006: Steve's paper with Mark Dowling, Terry Rudolph, and Rob Spekkens, on "How to observe a coherent superposition of an atom and a molecule," has been published in Physical Review A. See publications.
- 24/10/2006: Steve's paper with Terry Rudolph on "A simple nearest-neighbor two-body Hamiltonian system for which the ground state is a universal resource for quantum computation," has been published in Physical Review A as a Rapid Communication. See publications.
- 3/8/2006: Paul van Tienen joins the
Quantum Information Theory group as a PhD student. Welcome, Paul!
- 17/7/2006: Alex Gray joins the
Quantum Information Theory group as an Honours student. Welcome, Alex!
- 10/07/2006: Terry Rudolph of Imperial College London, the recipient of a University of Sydney Short-Term Visiting Fellowship, is visiting the
Quantum Information Theory group for about 6 weeks.
- 22/3/2006: Steve's paper with Terry Rudolph, Rob Spekkens, and Peter Turner on "Degradation of a quantum reference frame," has been accepted for publication in New Journal of Physics. See publications.
- 3/3/2006: Daniel Yardley joins the
Quantum Information Theory group as an Honours student. Welcome, Daniel!
- 24/2/2006: The workshop on
Quantum Information Theory, organised by Steve Bartlett, was
successfully held this week in Coogee, Sydney, Australia, with 35 Australian and international
attendees. Click here
for the workshop website.
- 3/2/2006: Steve's paper with Andrew Doherty, Rob Spekkens, and Howard Wiseman on "Entanglement under restricted operations: Analogy to mixed state entanglement," has been published in Physical Review A. See publications.
- 31/1/2006: Steve's paper with Tim Ralph, Jeremy O'Brien, Geoff Pryde and Howard Wiseman on "Quantum Non-demolition Measurements on Qubits," has been published in Physical Review A. See publications.
- 24/11/2005: Steve's paper with Patrick Hayden and Rob Spekkens on "Random subspaces for encryption based on a private shared Cartesian frame," has been published in Physical Review A. See publications.
- 5/11/2005: The magazine New Scientist has an article, entitled "At the forth photon, the time will be...", discussing Steve's research with Mark de Burgh on quantum clock synchronization.
- 14/10/2005: Steve is the co-recipient of the Selby Research Award for 2005.
- 3/10/2005: Steve's paper with Mark de Burgh on "Quantum methods for clock synchronization: Beating the standard quantum limit without entanglement," has been published in Physical Review A. See publications.
- 5/7/2005: ARDA Grant Success! Steve is a Chief Investigator on a major "Quantum Computing Concept Maturation" project on Optical Quantum Computation. Funded by the U.S. ARDA for up 4 years at US$1.5m per year, the project involves leading experimental and theoretical groups at the University of Queensland, University of Illinois, University of Vienna, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Toronto, Imperial College London, and Louisiana State University.
- 1/7/2005: Aggie Branczyk receives a First Class for her Honours. What a great thesis... yay, Aggie!
- 10/6/2005: Steve's paper with Geoff Pryde, Jeremy O'Brien and Andrew White on "Demonstrating superior discrimination of locally-prepared states using nonlocal measurements" has been published in Physical Review Letters. See publications.
- 6/4/2005: CHIMP:
A new research network. In conjunction with Prof Huw Price from Philosophy,
we've established a research network and mailing list for people interested in
Conceptual and Historical Issues in Modern Physics (CHIMP). Initially, the focus
will be on the Sydney region, but anyone is welcome to join. To sign up to the
mailing list, go to the CHIMP page.
CHIMP's first event will be held on 14 April, and will feature talks on the
foundations of QM by Stephen Bartlett and Rob Spekkens (Perimeter Institute, Canada).
- 17/1/2005: The Big Move! Steve has commenced his lectureship in
the School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia.
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