12/2015 Congratulations to Joe Spencer for winning the regional stage of the IOP 3 minutes competition. He will go in May to the national finals at the Royal Institution Faraday lecture hall.
09/2015 "Perspectives for gapped bilayer graphene polaritonics" by Simone De Liberato, published in Physical Review B.
09/2015 New article published in Physical Review B on "Exchange spring switching in Er=doped DyFe2/YFe2 magnetic thin films" by Graham Bowden.
07/2015 Luca Sapienza, Marcelo Davanco, Antonio Badolato and Kartik Srinivasan’s paper entitled "Nanoscale optical positioning of single quantum dots for bright and pure single-photon emission” is published on Nature Communications
07/2015 Congratulations to Elena Mavrona, who has just published her first paper. Entitled Refractive indices and birefringence of hybrid liquid crystal – nanoparticles composite materials in the terahertz region it was published today in AIP Advances. The paper looks at introducing BaTiO3 nanoparticles to a liquid-crystal (LC) solution to create a hybrid LC-ferroelectric nanoparticle suspension. The introduction of nanoparticles led to a 10% increase in birefringence in the THz region compared to the E7 liquid crystal alone. This shows the possibility of using such LC doping techniques to develop effective modulators and waveplates for use at THz frequencies.
02/2015 The first trailer of the quantum music project, by Dr Simone De Liberato and our Artist in Residence Martin Fogel, has been released here .
07/2014 Dr Simone De Liberato and the musician Martin Fogel have been awarded a one year Artist in Residence grant from the Leverhulme trust to investigate relations between music and quantum physics.
06/2014 Dr Simone De Liberato and Dr Matthew Himsworth have been awarded a Dean's Award for Early Career Researchers.
02/2014 Dr Luca Sapienza was awarded a Royal Society Research Grant to investigate the coupling of nanoscale quantum emitters to photonic structures, with the aim of unveiling fundamental physics phenomena and realize novel solid-state single-photon devices.
02/2014 On the 5th of February we will have a QLM poster day. We invite all our undergraduates that wish to continue with a PhD with us to visit, in order to get an idea of the exciting research that is being conducted along the whole QLM group.
01/2014 The 2014/15 QLM PhD prospectus is out. It describes the different PhD projects open across the whole QLM group.
01/2014 The United Nations (UN) General Assembly 68th Session has proclaimed 2015 as the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL 2015). The QLM group, with photonics at the heart of its research, will take a full role in the global celebrations and in planning of events.
01/2014 Dr Luca Sapienza, Prof. David Smith, and Dr Kartik Srinivasan have been awarded a Zepler Institute Research Collaboration Stimulus Fund to investigate silicon-based optical cavities for the efficient extraction of single-photons, for quantum information technology applications.
01/2014 Two papers on the physics of non-perturbative cavity quantum electrodyanmics have been published by Dr Simone De Liberato in Physical Review Letters and Physical Review A.
10/2013 On the 11th of November the University of Southampton will host an international workshop on the topic Nanotechnology for Energy. The program is available here.
09/2013 Nathan Shammah won the Best Poster Award, sponsored by EPL, at the INSP 2013 Summer School in Maratea.
08/2013 The THz group wil be representing the University of Southampton this year at the THz-IRMMW 2013 conference in Mainz, Germany with three poster presentations and one talk. Attending the conference this year will be: Dr Vasilis Apostolopoulos, Dr Sam Berry, Mark Barnes, Duncan McBryde, and Paul Gow.
08/2013 Prof Pavlos Lagoudakis and co-workers published their paper Single-mode tunable laser emission in the single-exciton regime from colloidal nanocrystals in the prestigious journal Nature Communications.
07/2013 The first review paper on molecule interferometry technologieshas been published by Dr Hendrik Ulbricht and colleagues.
06/2013 Two papers investigating the scattering properties of intersubband polaritons have been published by Dr Simone De Liberato and co-workers in a recent issue of Physical Review B (Phys. Rev. B 87, 241304 and Phys. Rev. B 87, 235322).
04/2013 Dr Otto Muskens and co-workers have demonstrated that light flow in random nanowire mats is modified by mesoscopic interference. They paper Mesoscopic light transport by very strong collective multiple scattering in nanowire mats has been published in the prestigious journal Nature Photonics.
03/2013 Dr Hendrik Ulbricht won a £500.000 grant to investigate the limits of the quantum theory. Here is the official cover story.
02/2013 The paper Quantum phases of a multimode bosonic field coupled to flat electronic bands, co-authored by Dr Simone De Liberato has been published in the prestigious Physical Review Letters journal.
02/2013 On the 21th of February we will host an open day for PhD candidates interested in joining the QLM group. See ou join page for details.
01/2013 The project Cooling a macroscopic semiconductor mechanical oscillator into its quantum ground state using light-induced piezoelectric interaction, of Dr Simone De Liberato, has been awarded an Annual Adventures in Research grant.
01/2013 The essay Is quantum linear superposition an exact principle of nature?, co-authored by Dr Hendrik Ulbricht won the fourth prize in theFQXi Essay Contest.
11/2012 The review paper Models of wave-function collapse, underlying theories, and experimental tests, co-authored by Dr Hendrik Ulbricht has been accepted for publication in the prestigious journal Review of Modern Physics.