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Tuesday November 29, 2011 |
CTAMOP member André Xuereb awarded prestigious Research fellowship |
Dr André Xuereb was awarded a prestigious three-year fellowship from the Royal commission for the Exhibition of 1851, starting from November 2011, to work in collaboration with Dr Mauro Paternostro on "nonlinear optomechanics". The young field of optomechanics studies the interactions between light and the motion of small objects such as nano and microfabricated mechanical structures. This work is intended to find new avenues to enforce and expose the quantum-mechanical nature of these systems and build up quantum-empowered sensors for position and motion that will beat the performance of the best of their classical counterparts.
André joined QUB after working as a post-doctoral researcher at Leibniz University in Hannover. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Southampton in 2011, after working with Dr Tim Freegarde.
See this link for more information. |
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Tuesday November 29, 2011 |
CTAMOP Prof. Philip G. Burke, CBE, FRS, MRIA awarded the 2012 Will Allis Prize |
Emeritus Professor Phil Burke, has been recently awarded the prestigious
Will Allis prize from the American Physical Society "for pioneering and
sustained theoretical development of R-Matrix computational methods for
electron-atom and electron-molecule collisions important in modelling
ionized gases and plasmas".
Prof. Burke obtained his PhD in theoretical nuclear physics at University
College London in 1956 and worked at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory
Berkeley and at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment Harwell before
being appointed Professor of Mathematical Physics at Queen's University of
Belfast in 1967, where he led research in theoretical atomic,
molecular and optical physics.
As well as being a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Member of the Royal
Irish Academy, he is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the American
Physical Society, the Royal Astronomical Society and the European Physical
Society.
See this link for more information.
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Monday June 13, 2011 |
Dermot Green from the Centre for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics in the School of Mathematics and Physics was awarded the Rosse Medal by the Institute of Physics (IoP) in Ireland. |
| For more details see May/June 2011 issue of Queen's Now.
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Saturday May 14, 2011 |
Successful research on mesoscopic quantumness at CTAMOP |
| A significant research output has been achieved by the Quantum Technology group at CTAMOP. A new scheme to engineer genuinely non-classical states of a massive mechanical system exposed to the influences of noise has been devised by Dr. Mauro Paternostro. The proposal merges two mature areas of quantum technology, cavity opto-mechanics and photon subtraction, and is currently under scrutiny by an experimental team. The work has been published in the current issue of Physical Review Letters as
M. Paternostro, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 183601 (2011) |
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Monday January 17, 2011 |
PhD Projects 2011 |
| A list of PhD projects for 2011 can now be found on our postgraduate studies page. |
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Thursday July 08, 2010 |
Double success for the Quantum Information Science group at CTAMOP! |
The team working on Quantum Information Science
led by Dr. Mauro Paternostro has achieved a double
success in June: two research papers, resulting from
the collaboration with Italian, Spanish and UK institutions
have been published in the same issue of the highly
prestigious Physical Review Letters.
Details of the papers can be found below:
Paper 1 or
Paper 2 |
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Monday June 14, 2010 |
A "milestone" work in the study of photons by a member of CTAMOP |
In a recent Milestones special issue, the Editors of Nature Publishing Group
have valued the seminal paper on cavity optomechanics
written by Dr. Mauro Paternostro in collaboration
with researchers at Universitaet Vienna, University
of Maryland and Johannes Kepler University Linz
[S. Gigan et al. Nature 444, 67 (2006)]
as the most recent milestone in the study of photons
since the formalisation of Maxwell's equations in 1861.
More information at the
Nature Milestones special
(Direct Link to the article)
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Thursday April 29, 2010 |
A major review paper by Dr Gleb Gribakin and his experimentalist colleagues Prof Cliff Surko and Dr Jason Young |
Positron-molecule interactions: Resonant attachment, annihilation, and bound states, G. F. Gribakin, J. A. Young, and C. M. Surko
has now been accepted in Reviews of Modern Physics http://rmp.aps.org/accepted
This paper summarises the results of the rapid development in the field of
positron annihilation in molecules over the past 10 years. Thanks to a concerted effort of the experimental group of Prof Cliff Surko (University of California, San Diego), and theoretical work by Dr Gleb Gribakin and
his PhD students at Queen's, we now have a much better understanding of the phenomenon of positron annihilation in polyatomic molecules and the effect
of positron attachment via vibrational Feshbach resonances. These resonances
are responsible for large (several orders of magnitude) enhancements of positron annihilation rates in polyatomic molecules. |
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Friday January 29, 2010 |
List of Upcoming Phd Projects Updated |
| We've added some further projects to the list of PhD projects for 2010. Please check out our postgraduate studies page for more information. |
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Sunday December 20, 2009 |
PhD Projects 2010 |
| A list of PhD projects for 2010 can now be found on our postgraduate studies page. |
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Tuesday December 15, 2009 |
British Council Grant Awarded to CTAMOP member |
| Dr. Mauro Paternostro has been awarded a grant under the British Council Partnership Programme
to conduct work in collaboration with an Italian
institute. |
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Tuesday December 15, 2009 |
North-South Quantum Information School |
Jan 25-27th at NUIM.
The annual Belfast-Cork collaboration on quantum gases and quantum optics will meet in Maynooth for
a series of informal talks by students and staff. |
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Wednesday December 09, 2009 |
Success Hat-Trick for researchers |
| Three Ph.D. Students (Clara Cassidy, Martin McGovern and Linda Hamonou) from CTAMOP have received international acclaim at the XXVI International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC), held in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Their success is timely as the next ICPEAC conference will be held at QUB. Further information can be found at http://www.qub.ac.uk/icpeac2011 |
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Tuesday December 08, 2009 |
Grant Awarded to CTAMOP for our work in HPC field |
| Professor Ken Taylor has won a grant for his work on high-performance computation from Numerical Algorithm Group (Nag). |
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Monday December 07, 2009 |
Former CTAMOP postgraduate selected for IRCF |
| Dr. Carlo Di Franco has been selected for an Irish Research Council Fellowship in 2009. He is to carry on with his existing research at University College Cork after spending 3 years of postgraduate studies with us. |
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