Quantum Matter and Photonics
Cold Atoms
- Quantum many body physics: cold atoms in optical lattices.
- Quantum information: entangled images, quantum memories and quantum simulation.
- Quantum sensors: optical clocks and precision inertial sensors.
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Alkaline Team (previously known as the 'Strontium Clock Team')
- Associated with the University of Birmingham Cold Atoms Group and the UK National Quantum Technology Hub in Sensors and Timing.
- Ultra cold strontium for a range of applications, from studying the fundamental interactions between ultra-cold strontium atoms, to developing compact clocks systems in our lab in collaboration with industry partners.
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Knowledge transfer to help our industry partners to bring quantum technologies out of the lab and into the real-world applications.
- Associated with the University of Birmingham Cold Atoms Group and the UK National Quantum Technology Hub in Sensors and Timing.
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Atomic Quantum Systems
- Experiments on ultracold quantum gases, cavity quantum electrodynamics, quantum technology for fundamental physics, and development of atomic quantum devices for brain diagnostics.
- Experiments on ultracold quantum gases, cavity quantum electrodynamics, quantum technology for fundamental physics, and development of atomic quantum devices for brain diagnostics.
Cold Atoms
By using finely controlled lasers and magnetic field, the Cold Atoms group can cool small ensembles of atoms down to the lowest temperatures in the universe, to access fully quantum mechanical motion.
Gravity Gradiometry Research Group
Our research focuses on performing precision inertial sensing, and in particular on the measurement of gravity and gravity gradients, through atom interferometry.
Condensed Matter Physics
- Studying superconducting, magnetic and electronic properties of materials.
Condensed Matter Physics
Condensed matter physics studies the physics of solids and liquid phases, with a focus on electronic properties and on phenomena that arise from quantum mechanical interactions.
Metamaterials and Nanophotonics
- Studying light-matter interactions in extreme photonic environments.
- Sampling nonequilibrium dynamics in space and time simultaneously.
- Engineering materials with exotic optical properties (e.g. negative refractive indices) = metamaterials/metasurfaces.
Metamaterials and Nanophotonics
Our mission is to predict and measure how light and matter interact on a scale hidden to most: shorter than a single wavelength of light.
Theoretical Physics
- Studying condensed matter, cold atom and statistical systems from microscopic to macroscopic.
Theoretical Physics Research Group
Our group's research interests span a diverse spectrum of condensed matter, ultracold-atom, and nonlinear-optical systems on length scales from the microscopic through mesoscopic to the macroscopic.