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Demonstration of quantum-enhanced rangefinding robust against classical jamming
Our results demonstrating a correlated pair-source to perform target detection and range-finding to show the resilience of quantum-enhanced lidar to classical jamming have been published in Optics Express.
Jan 16, 2024
Demonstration of quantum-enhanced rangefinding robust against classical jamming
New Chancellor’s Fellow

Congratulations on Dr Stuart Ingleby becoming the groups newest Chancellors Fellow. Stuart will continue to advance the development of atomic magnetometry, see here for details.

Sep 1, 2021
New Chancellor’s Fellow
James McGilligan awarded RAEng

Congratulations to Dr James McGilligan on receiving a prestigious Royal Society of Engineering Fellowship to develop technology for quantum navigation. There is a detailed Strathclyde news article available here.

Aug 1, 2021
James McGilligan awarded RAEng
Innovate UK grant

Congratulations to Prof. Erling Riis, Dr. Paul Griffin and Dr. Jonathan Pritchard who are leading work on DISCOVERY, a £10m IUK programme to establish commercial supply chains for quantum computing in collaboration with UK industry.
Nov 1, 2020
Innovate UK grant
Strathclyde quantum technology sensing hub share

Congratulations to Prof. Erling Riis and team for their share in follow-on funding through the Quantum Technology Hubs program. There is a detailed Strathclyde QT Hub news article available here.

Dec 1, 2019
Strathclyde quantum technology sensing hub share
Thesis prize double

Hearty congratulations to Dr. Rachel Offer for winning both this year’s Institute of Physics, Quantum Electronics and Photonics Group Doctoral Research Prize as well as the Fred Stern prize (best Strathclyde Physics PhD thesis of the year). Well done!
Jun 1, 2019
Thesis prize double
Spiral bandwidth of four-wave mixing in Rb vapour

New paper out in Communications Physics.

Nov 23, 2018
Spiral bandwidth of four-wave mixing in Rb vapour
Detection of multiple forces at same time with a BEC interferometer
Our latest paper uses a symmetric matterwave interferometer, with an 87Rb BEC, to measure the background level of magnetic and gravitational forces simultaneously. A key result is that we have devised a method of measuring the ambient forces that are always present in the lab, even though these are too small to be detected in normal operation.
Jul 25, 2017
Detection of multiple forces at same time with a BEC interferometer
SUPA Student Poster Competition

Andrew MacKellar won first prize at the SUPA Student Poster Competition 2016 for his poster on “Phase-contrast interferometry: Single-shot, phase insensitive readout of an atom interferometer.” Further details of this prestigious prize can be found at the SUPA website, where Andrew is quoted as saying “I feel incredibly fortunate… to work in such an exciting line of work with such ridiculously skilled people.”

Jun 10, 2016
SUPA Student Poster Competition
Quantum Technology Hub grant

Group members Paul Griffin, Erling Riis and Aidan Arnold, with Institute of Photonics‘ Jennifer Hastie and Alan Kemp were today awarded nearly £5M to develop next-generation quantum technology devices as part of a University of Birmingham led Quantum Technology Hub. The UK National Quantum Technologies Programme aims to ensure the successful transition of quantum technologies from laboratory to industry and is delivered by EPSRC, Innovate UK, BIS, NPL, GCHQ, DSTL and the KTN.
Nov 26, 2014
Quantum Technology Hub grant