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The Theory Group in the Centre for Quantum Dynamics, shown here in July 2007.

Back row: Jay Gambetta (research fellow), Andy Chia (Ph.D.), Josh Combes (Ph.D.)
Next row: Steve Jones (Ph.D), Byron Booth (Hons), Dominique Moeseneder (Hons), Andrew Scott (research fellow), Ahsan Nazir (research fellow),
Front row: Joan Vaccaro (researcher/Senior Lecturer), David Pegg (Professor), me, Anushya Chandran (visiting student), He-Bi Sun (researcher/Lecturer)

missing: Graham White (M.Sc).

Click here to see previous group photos.

Wiseman Group News

2010

May
My 2007 Nature paper "Entanglement-free Heisenberg-limited phase estimation", has been chosen by the editors of
Nature Milestones: Photons (2010), for the Fundamentals NPG library – one of 11 reprinted papers in Nature Publishing Group journals, covering the period 1926-2010.
http://www.nature.com/milestones/milephotons/library/fundamentals/index.html

February
Paper published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 093601 "Adaptive Optical Estimation Using Time-Symmetric Quantum Smoothing" (http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v104/i9/e093601)

2009

December
Paper accepted as a Rapid Comm. in Phys. Rev. A "Replacing quantum feedback with open-loop control and quantum filtering" by Josh Combes, me and Andrew Scott. (arXiv:0908.0198)

November
Quantum Measurement and Control by Wiseman and Milburn now published by Cambridge University Press.
Please visit the authors' website www.quantum-measurement-and-control.org (enables user contributions of errata etc.)

We welcome a new Ph.D. student, David Evans from UQ.

Paper accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett. "Mixed state discrimination using optimal control" (arXiv:0909.1572)

October
David Pegg has been appointed Professor Emeritus of the University.

September
We say farewell to Dr Andrew Scott, and welcome a new postdoc in CQCT, Dr Raisa Karasik from Berkeley.

July
Grant success: Dr Austin Lund has been awarded a Griffith University postdoctoral fellowship.

February
We welcome a new postdoc, Dr Samuel Colin from PI, funded by PIAF, the Perimeter Institute Australia Foundations Partnership.

January
Text-book Quantum Measurement and Control (Wiseman and Milburn) delivered to Cambridge University Press, nine years after submitting the synopsis!

EARLIER WISEMAN GROUP NEWS

The Centre for Quantum Computer Technology was established as an Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence in 2003. It has research programs at six Australian Universities: New South Wales, Melbourne, Queensland, Macquarie, Griffith, and Sydney, and also ADFA. Its primary aims are to build prototype quantum computers in Silicon (UNSW/UM), and in optics (UQ/GU/ADFA). It also has several other research directions, experimental and theoretical.

Griffith University hosts two programs, a Theory Program headed by me, and an Experimental Quantum Optics Program headed by Dr. Geoff Pryde.

The Theory Program is Resources for Quantum Information Processing. It supports wide-ranging theoretical research in quantum measurement, control and information. It currently comprises me (Program Manager), Dr. Joan Vaccaro, Dr. He-Bi Sun, Dr. Austin Lund, Dr. Raisa Karasik, plus students. For more information on the program, see the Program Page on the CQCT website.

Related Experimental Laboratories at Griffith

In the Centre for Quantum Dynamics at Griffith University we have two quantum laboratories with which I collaborate:

The quantum optical information laboratory of Dr. Geoff Prydem which does research in quantum information, measurement, control, and foundations.

The trapped ion laboratory for quantum information processing, part of the laboratory of Dr. Dave Kielpinski.

Positions Available

At the moment I am not in a position to offer postdoctoral positions. However, the Australian Research council and Griffith University both offer 3-year research positions. If you are interested please contact me, after consulting http://www.griffith.edu.au/or/grants/content_grants.html

New PhD students interested in studying in my group are welcome. However, overseas students should be aware that in Australia the financial situation is not the same as in the US for example. Students from Australia or New Zealand usually get a scholarship which covers tuition fees and living expenses. It is harder for overseas students to get such scholarships. For details please contact: the Postgraduate Scholarships officer,