New appointment

Mauro Paternostro is appointed as a member of the Editorial Board of Phys. Rev. A for a three-year term from 1st January 2012.

Congratulations Dr Campbell

Steve has passed his viva. The group proudly congratulates him for his PhD. Well done Steve!

New PhD position available

A fully-funded (UK residents: fees + maintenance awards, Other EU residents: fees only) 3-year PhD studentship is available in the QteQ group within the School of Mathematics and Physics at Queen's University.
Title of the project: Quantum networks and their dynamics: a role in biology?
Supervisors: Dr Mauro Paternostro and Dr Gabriele De Chiara
To Apply and to see the conditions, follow this link.
CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: Monday 31 October 2011
For further information contact Mauro or Gabriele.

New visitors and members

There's lots changing in QteQ in the coming months and we are all very excited! Soon Ms. Margherita Zuppardo from Università Delgi Studi di Palermo will visit for a few months, Ben Rogers will join us for his PhD studies, and we have a new post-doctoral research fellow, Dr. André Xuereb. André has been awarded the prestigious research fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. We are very excited he has decided to join us for the next three years!

New publications

QteQ has recently swamped Physical Review A with three papers accepted for publication in quick succession! Each covering different topics, we have produced papers on quantum contextuality, entanglement detection , distributing optomechanical correlations, and vortex patterns in BEC's. Well done guys!

Welcome to our newest members

The group is extremely happy to welcome a Dr. Gabriele De Chiara to the academic staff and Dr. Laura Mazzola to our research staff. Both of these extremely talented researchers will help build Qteq in the coming months.

Well Done Dr. Rutherford

Lauren has passed her viva, The group are happy congratulate the new Dr. Rutherford!

Congratulations to Dr. Berman

The group would like to congratulate Dr. Daniel Berman for gaining his second PhD!

Double Success for QteQ

The group has achieved 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.

"Milestone" work on the study of photons by Dr. Mauro Paternostro

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 Universiteat 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 Maxwells equations in 1861.