Yearly Archives: 2015

Google’s joint announcement with DWave has hit the airwaves and just as with the three previous generations DWave reports that their quantum annealer achieves significant speedups over classical algorithms. The good news IMO is that the scientific manuscript that underpins the press release is upfront about the main caveat, which is that the speedup all […]

An extraordinary event took place for the first time in the UK a couple of weeks ago: the UK National Quantum Technology Showcase 2015. According to the official announcement, this was “a unique opportunity to meet the four UK Quantum Technology Hubs – a consortium of 17 UK universities, and find out about the latest […]

Every time we write a manuscript for a bold abstract journal the broad readership question is asked. Will they understand? Journals like Nature encourage you to think that way. To help their authors’ out in this endeavour, Nature supplies an exemplary summary paragraph, which is that bold, fully-referenced oddity that replaces the abstract in a […]

Nobel laureate and super-determinism conspiracist Gerard ’t Hooft has an online guide on how to become a GOOD theoretical physicist. He lists required subjects and key concepts in each subject and links to mostly online resources for self-study of those concepts. I’ve always considered it a shame that there isn’t anything similar for experimental physicists. […]

The UK research council has now announced the outcome of their Quantum Technology Fellowship scheme. I’m one of ten academics to receive a 5-year grant for developing quantum technologies. My early-career fellowship is worth approximately £1.2M and I will use it to develop next-generation cluster photonics to be used in quantum communication, computation and imaging. […]

After seven years as a research fellow at the University of Queensland, it’s time for me to move on. On September 1, I will officially start a new quantum photonics group as Associate Professor at Heriot-Watt University in the wonderful city of Edinburgh, Scotland. This website will see a bit of a redesign accordingly. I’m offering a fully funded postdoc and […]

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced — John Keats This quote by John Keats has aged well in time, it wouldn’t be amiss in a debate of quantum physics centuries later. The debate over what is real has been going since the early days of quantum, and even today we don’t really know […]

Here’s some old news on a personal achievement. I post this now because the paper associated with the project has now appeared, but more on that in a later post. In 2014, I won an UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award, for experimental tests on the reality of the wavefunction. The report from the ceremony is […]