March 2023
- Jack attended the “2nd Plenary Meeting – 1-3 March 2023, CCQ” in New York City.
- Harvey attended the “Out-of-Equilibrium Physics with Photons and Atoms” in Les Houces, France, where he presented a poster titled “Low-lying effective theories for spinor condensates”
January 2023
- Jack and Marzena attended the “Numerical Methods for many-body open quantum systems” in Dundee, Scotland.
December 2022
- Marzena attended the “777. WE-Heraeus-Seminar Ultracold Quantum Matter: Basic Research and Applications” in Bad Honnef, Germany, where she gave an invited talk entitled “Novel non-equilibrium phenomena in quantum fluids of light”
October 2022
- Welcome to Yi Shi and Harvey Weinberger who joined our group as PhD students.
- Marzena gave an invited talk at HMP2022, “Hybrid Photonics & Materials” International Conference in Hydra, Greece.
- We visited our EPSRC collaborators at University of Sheffield to discuss progress and future plans regarding the EPSRC Program Grant “Quantum and Many Body Physics Enabled by Advanced Semiconductor Nanotechnology”.
- Marzena, Paolo and Andrzej attended the International Conference PHOTON22 in Nottingham, UK. While Marzena gave an invited talk, Paolo presented a contributed talk and Andrzej presented a poster.
- Our group attended the QLCM22 conference, “Shedding Quantum Light on Strongly Correlated Materials” at the “Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems”, Dresden, Germany, where Marzena gave an invited talk while Alex, Paolo and Jack presented a poster.
- Paolo gave a contributed talk and presented two posters at the international conference ICSCE-11,“11TH International Conference On Spontaneous Coherence In Excitonic Systems” in Burlington, USA.
June 2022
- Paolo visited the research group of Daniele Sanvitto at the “Advanced Photonic Lab” in Lecce, Italy, to discuss current and future collaborations.
- Marzena and Paolo attended the International Workshop “Condensates. of Light 2022” in Leiden, NL, where they gave an invited and a contributed talk, respectively.
March 2022
- Welcome to Andrzej Opala from ifPan, “Instytutu Fizyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk”, Warsaw, Poland, who joined our group as a Visiting Researcher.
November 2021
- Congratulations to Jack Dunham and Paul Brooks for winning the “MRes thesis prize” and the “2021 Marshall Stoneham Prize of the CMMP”, respectively.
- Paolo was invited to give a talk at the “Uniclub Seminar” of the Quantum Optics Group at Bonn University in Bonn, Germany. The talk is entitled “Non-Hermitian Topology and Universal Features in Driven-Dissipative Systems”.
- Members of the group will attended the Lattice‐based quantum simulation workshop in Bad Honnef, Germany (28 Nov. – 01 Dec. 2021).
October 2021
- Welcome to Dawid Hryniuk and Dawid Paszko who joined our group as PhD students.
September 2021
- Congratulations to Conor Mc Keever who passed his PhD viva! He is staying in the group as a post-doctoral researcher.
- Marzena gave an on-line talk entitled “Fully Quantum Scalable Approaches to Driven-Dissipative Lattice Models” at the Non-Equilibrium Universality in Many-Body Physics conference organised by KITP.
July 2021
- Congratulations to Alex Ferrier and Cristóbal Lledó who passed their PhD viva! Alex is staying on in the group as a post-doctoral researcher.
June 2021
- Jack Dunham joined our group for a MRes project in Tensor Network algorithms. He is staying in the group as a PhD student.
- Paolo Comaron joined our group as a Visiting Researcher for a joint collaboration with the Polariton Group at the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciencies in Warsaw, leaded by Michal Matuszweski.
January 2021
- Marzena presented the group’s recent progress in developing numerical methods to study driven-dissipative quantum systems at the “Many Body physics in Open Quantum Systems” on-line conference organised by the Princeton Centre of Theoretical Physics.
December 2020
- Congratulations to Paul Brookes who passed his PhD viva!
November 2020
- PhD scholarship for UK/EU students available! For more information click here. If you are interested, please send an e-mail.
October 2020
- We congratulate Richard Juggins who was been awarded awarded the Marshall Stoneham Prize for the best PhD thesis in CMMP. Well done Richard!
September 2020
- Paul Brookes has submitted his PhD thesis.
- QLM is delighted to announce that Igor Timofeev has joined our group to conduct his PhD. Welcome Igor!
January 2020
- Our group is attending the InterPol QuantERA meeting in Warsaw!
November 2019
- Our article Directional Goldstone waves in polariton condensates in collaboration with the CNR Nanotec @ Lecce group has been accepted in Nature Communications. Here you can read a summary for nonexperts:
Out to sea, as the wind whips across the water it generates waves which, quite intuitively, move in the same direction as the air propelling them. By measuring the displacement of the water from above, it is possible to infer the wavelength and frequency of the waves, and from these the ocean depth. Surprisingly, it turns out we can recreate this phenomenon in entirely different circumstances: the bizarre world of quantum mechanics.In this case, instead of water, the ‘sea’ is made of light trapped between tiny semiconductor mirrors. Inside these, particles of light couple to electrons to form a fluid of composite particles known as polaritons. As light tends to leak out from the mirrors, a laser must be used to maintain the fluid. By setting this up with a peak in strength around a central spot, an outward flow of light blows over the polaritons like a breeze on the ocean, exciting waves in exclusively one direction.This quantum wind shows how nature can exhibit similar behaviour on radically different scales. Just as in the oceanographic case, we can take images of the displacement of these polariton waves and use them to calculate their wavelength and frequency, from which we can then find the density of the polaritons and whether they possess attributes associated with the strange phenomenon of superfluidity. In the past, it has not been easy to measure these properties in polaritons. So, by learning from oceanography we have not only uncover the elegant effects of quantum wind, we have also deepened our understanding of these remarkable fluids of light.
August 2019
- Our group attended the Windsor 2019 CCPQ workshop, Dynamics of Complex Quantum Systems, where Marzena gave an invited talk and the students presented posters.
July 2019
- We visited our QuantEra InterPol collaborators at Lille to discuss progresses and future plans.
June 2019
- Marzena was invited to give a talk at the Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Superfluid and Coherent Quantum Systems conference in Newcastle University.
May 2019
- Marzena gave a talk at the Field theories of Active and Driven matter workshop in Edinburgh.
April 2019
- Richard passed his PhD viva with minor corrections! Many congratulations to him.
- Marzena visited United States to attend the Universal Themes of Bose-Einstein Condensation meeting in Pittsburgh, as well as the KITP program Open Quantum Systems Dynamics: Quantum Simulators and Simulations Far From Equilbrium.
- Alex Ferrier spent two weeks working with Piotr Deuar and Michal Matuszweski at the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciencies in Warsaw.
March 2019
- Marzena and Paul went to the APS march meeting in Boston. Marzena gave the talk Equilibrium and Superfluidity in Polariton Condensates. Paul present on Bistability and Critical Slowing Down in Superconducting Circuits.
- Conor attended the Entanglement in Strongly Correlated Systems meeting in Benasque, Spain.
January 2019
- Our paper on the properties of the signal mode in the polariton optical parametric oscillator regime was published in PRB.
- Members of the group visited the group of Alberto Amo at the University of Lille in December and will attend the next meeting of the Quantera Interpol consortium in Paris in February.
- Our work on the question of superfluidity in polaritons was featured in New Scientist and is discussed in the video below.
October 2018
- Our paper about the Question of Superfluidity in Polaritons done in collaboration with Jonathan Keeling from St. Andrews has been published in Nature Comms.
September 2018
- Our group organized the CEPC2018 workshop in Milton Keynes, UK.
August 2018
- Marzena went to Santa Barbara for the DYNQ18 program.
July 2018
- Marzena visited the Aspen Centre for Physics.
June 2018
- Conor and Cristóbal attended the QFLM2018 Les Houches summer school.
March 2018
- The QuantERA InterPolconsortium had its first meeting in Milton Keynes, UK.
February 2018
- Paul Brookes has moved to Israel for a six month placement at Ben-Gurion Univeristy of the Negev
January 2018
- Professor Babak Seradjeh visited our group. He gave a seminar titled “Universal fluctuations of Floquet topological invariants at low frequencies”.
- Marzena went to Bonn for the meeting Condensates of Light.
- Paul attended the QIP 2018 conference in Delft.
December 2017
- Our results on topological order in polaritons with Daniele Sanvitto’s group in Lecce have been published in Nature Materials.
November 2017
- Marzena was awarded a QuantERA grant to study polariton lattices in collaboration with research groups in France, Germany, Israel, and Poland.
October 2017
- Cristóbal Lledó Veloso joined our group for a PhD project in open quantum systems.
- Conor Mc Keever completed an MRes project in our group on phase space methods for polariton lattices, and has begun a PhD with us.
September 2017
- Marzena and Alejandro went to Mykonos for the HPM 2017 conference, and Alejandro won a poster prize.
August 2017
- Galaa has been awarded a PhD! He is staying on in the group as a post-doctoral researcher.
May 2017
- Our group attended the QFLM conference in Corsica, presenting four posters.
January 2017
- Marzena gave the Gareth Roberts Memorial Lecture in Newcastle, UK.
October 2016
- Alex Ferrier joined us for a PhD project in Truncated Wigner Methods.
- Paul Brookes joined us for a PhD project in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics.
June 2016
- Przemek Szafulski joined us for a summer project in Monte Carlo Simulations of Superconducting Circuits.
- Kirsty has been awarded a PhD! Her thesis is available here.
April 2016
- Our group attended the ICSCE8 meeting in Edinburgh.
March 2016
- Professor Guido Pupillo visited our group. He gave a seminar titled “Cluster liquids and frustrated quantum magnetism with Rydberg gases”.
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