All meetings unless otherwise stated will be on Thursdays in the Common Room at 9:15 am. For details or corrections, e-mail Lindsey Keary. For group announcements regarding journal club use the email address photonicsjournalclub@phys.strath.ac.uk. Previous timetables and papers can be found in the journal club archives.
2019 Timetable
| Date | Introduced by | Paper | |
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| 10th January | Paul Janin | Quantifying the evolution of individual scientific impact Science 04 Nov 2016 | |
| 16th January | Carolyn O’Dwyer | Long-Term Study of Heart Rate Variability Responses to Changes in the Solar and Geomagnetic Environment Scientific Reportsvolume 8, Article number: 2663 (2018) | |
| 24th January | Andrea Di Carli | Supersolid formation in a quantum gas breaking a continuous translational symmetry Nature volume 543, pages 87–90 (02 March 2017) | |
| 14th February | Oliver Burrow | Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 161101 | |
| 21st February | Rachel Elvin | Interferometric Laser Cooling of Atomic Rubidium Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 073004 | |
| 28th February | Arthur La Rooij | Probing many-body localization in the presence of a quantum bath arXiv:1805.00056 |
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| 7th March | Andrés Ulibarrena Díaz | Deterministic creation of entangled atom-light Schrödinger-cat states Nature Photonics (2019) |
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| 14th March | Ilian Despard | Quantum superhet based on microwave-dressed Rydberg atoms arXiv:1902.11063 | |
| 21st March | Simon Armstrong | Searching for axion stars and Q-balls with a terrestrial magnetometer network Phys. Rev. D 97, 043002 | |
| 2nd April | Adrian Costa Boquete | Fractal Light from Lasers Phys. Rev. A 99, 013848 | |
| 4th April | Alasdair Lennon | Attosecond angular streaking and tunnelling time in atomic hydrogen Nature 568, 75–77 (2019) | |
| 11th April | Lindsey Keary | Traffic Flow Optimization Using a Quantum Annealer Front. ICT, 20 December 2017 | |
| 18th April | Harry Pulham | Remote sensing of geomagnetic fields and atomic collisions in the mesosphere Nature Communications 9, Article number: 3981 (2018) | |
| 18th April | Andrew Daffurn | Frequency-stabilized diode laser with the Zeeman shift in an atomic vapor Applied Optics Vol. 37, Issue 15, pp. 3295-3298 (1998) | |
| 2nd May | Sean McLaughlin | Robust absolute magnetometry with organic thin-film devices Nature Communications volume 3, Article number: 898 (2012) |
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| 9th May | Ross Johnston | Space-borne Bose-Einstein condensation for precision interferometry Nature 562, 391–395 (2018) | |
| 16th May | Ben Lewis | Optical-Clock-Based Time Scale arXiv:1902.06858 | |
| 23rd May | Harikesh Ranganath | Environment-Assisted Quantum Transport in a 10-qubit Network Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 050501 | |
| 23rd May | Michael Wright | A single-atom heat engine Science 15 Apr 2016 | |
| 30th May | Katie McDonnell | Alkaline-Earth Atoms in Optical Tweezers Phys. Rev. X 8, 041055 (2018) | |
| 13th June | Matthew Johnson | Can three-body recombination purify a quantum gas? arXiv:1905.09811 | |
| 20th June | Paul Janin | Observation of thermal Hawking radiation and its temperature in an analogue black hole Nature 568, 688-691 (2019) | |
| 27th June | Gregory Hoth | Survey of Capabilities and Applications of Accurate Clocks: Directions for Planetary Science Space Sci. Rev. 221, 3-4, (2017) |
4th July | Rudy Romain | Experimental demonstration of optical transport, sorting and self-arrangement using a ‘tractor beam’ Nature Photonics, 7, 123-127 (2013) | 11th July | Carolyn O’Dwyer | Continuous-wave mirrorless lasing at 2.21 μm in sodium vapors Optics Letters, 43, 21, pp, 5278-5282 (2018) | 18th July | Oliver Burrow | Probing gravity by holding atoms for 20 seconds arXiv:1907.03054 | 1st August | Aurélien Chopinaud | Photonic Counterparts of Cooper Pairs Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 193603 (2017) | 8th August | Terry Dyer | Transduction of the Geomagnetic Field as Evidenced from alpha-Band Activity in the Human Brain ENEURO.0483-18.2019 | 22nd August | Arthur La Rooij | Experimental realization and characterization of an electronic Lieb lattice Nature Physics 13, 672-676 (2017) | 5th September | Adrian Costa Boquete | Scaling laws for large magneto-optical traps Nature Physics 13, 672-676 (2017) | 12th September | Alasdair Lennon | Multi-time quantum correlations with no spatial analog npj Quantum Information 4, 37 (2018) | 19th September | Lindsey Keary | Parallel implementation of high-fidelity multi-qubit gates with neutral atoms arXiv:1908.06101 | 3rd October | Ross Johnston | Hypersonic Bose-Einstein condensates in accelerator rings Nature 570, 205-209 (2019) | 10th October | Sean McLaughlin | All-Optical Bose-Einstein Condensates in Microgravity arXiv:1906.10063 | 17th October | Harry Pulham | A cold atom radio-frequency magnetometer Appl. Phys. Lett. 114, 073505 (2019) | 31st October | Harikesh Ranganath | Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor Nature 24, (2019) | 7th November | Ilian Despard | Loading and Cooling in an Optical Trap via Hyperfine Dark States arXiv:1910.12849 | 14th November | Andrea Di Carli | Quantum thermalization through entanglement in an isolated many-body system Science 353, 6301 (2016) | 28th November | Matthew Johnson | Quantum phase transition from a superfluid to a Mott insulator in a gas of ultracold atoms Nature 415, 39–44(2002) | 5th December | Katie McDonnell | High-sensitivity magnetometry with a single atom in a superposition of two circular Rydberg states Nature Physics 15, 326–329(2019) | 12th December | Paul Janin | Bose–Einstein condensation of photons in an optical microcavity Nature 468, 545–548(2010) |
2018 Timetable
| Date | Introduced by | Paper | |
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| 25th January | Michael Wright | Low-Threshold Bidirectional Air Lasing PhysRevLett.113.253901 | |
| 30th January | Katie McDonnell | Fast Ground State Manipulation of Neutral Atoms in Microscopic Optical Traps Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 063001 | |
| 6th February | Paul Janin | Loss of time-delay signature in the chaotic output of a semiconductor laser with optical feedback Vol. 32, Issue 20, pp. 2960-2962 (2007) | |
| 13th February | Rudy Romain | Satellite-to-ground quantum key distribution Nature volume 549, pages 43–47 (07 September 2017) | |
| 20th February | Gregory Hoth | The ACES/PHARAO space mission https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crhy.2015.05.002 | |
| 1st March | Matthew Johnson | Λ-enhanced grey molasses on the D2 transition of Rubidium-87 atoms (2018)DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-19814-z | |
| 8th March | Matthew Brown | Parallel Transport Quantum Logic Gates with Trapped Ions PRL 116, 080502 (2016) | |
| 13th March | Carolyn O’Dwyer | AREA COVERAGE OF EXPANDING E.T. SIGNALS IN THE GALAXY: SETI AND DRAKE’S N arXiv:1802.09399v2 | |
| 20th March | Oliver Burrow | Observation of quantum Hawking radiation and its entanglement in an analogue black hole Nature Physics volume 12, pages 959–965 (2016) | |
| 6th April | Manuel | Exploring the limits of ultra-strong light-atom interaction in waveguide-trapped cold-atoms arXiv:1802.05396 | |
| 6th April | Manuel Andia | Exploring the limits of ultra-strong light-atom interaction in waveguide-trapped cold-atoms arXiv:1802.05396 | |
| 27th April | Rachel Elvin | On the Rheology of Cats Ontherheologyofcats | |
| 3rd May | Bruno Peaudecerf | Imaging Optical Frequencies with 100 μHz Precision and 1.1 μm Resolution Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 103201 | |
| 31st May | James Halket | A Rapidly Expanding Bose-Einstein Condensate: An Expanding Universe in the Lab 10.1103/PhysRevX.8.021021 | |
| 7th June | Ilian Despard | Time-dependent population inversion gratings in laser frequency combs Vol. 5, Issue 4, pp. 475-478 (2018 | |
| 12th July | Michael Wright | Dynamic Optical Lattices of Subwavelength Spacing for Ultracold Atoms Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 140401 | |
| 17th July | Katie McDonnel | Mapping the world in 3D NATURE PHOTONICS | VOL 4 | JULY 2010 | |
| 26th July | Matthew Johnson | The Physics of Baking Good Pizza arXiv:1806.08790 | |
| 2nd August | Rudy Romain | Polarotactic tabanids find striped patterns with brightness and/or polarization modulation least attractive: an advantage of zebra stripes doi: 10.1242/jeb.065540 | |
| 9th August | Gregory Hoth | New concepts of inertial measurements with multi-species atom interferometry arXiv:1710.06289 | |
| 17th August | Paul Janin | A trapped single ion inside a Bose–Einstein condensate Nature volume 464, pages 388–391 (18 March 2010) | |
| 30th August | Carolyn O’Dwyer | Controlling fracture cascades through twisting and quenching https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1802831115 | |
| 6th September | Manuel Andia | Precision spectroscopy of helium in a magic wavelength optical dipole trap Nature Physics (2018) | |
| 20th September | Manuel Andia | Quantum Chemistry Calculations on a Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulator Phys. Rev. X 8, 031022 | |
| 27th September | Rachel Elvin | Absolute timing of the photoelectric effect Naturevolume 561, pages374–377 (2018) | |
| 4th October | Bruno Peaudecerf | Direct observation of base-pair stepping by RNA polymerase Nature volume 438, pages 460–465 (24 November 2005) | |
| 11th October | Andres Ulibarrena | Quantum interference of topological states of light Science Advances 14 Sep 2018: Vol. 4, no. 9, eaat3187 |
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| 1st November | Oliver Burrow | Multiparameter optimisation of a magneto-optical trap using deep learning Nature Communicationsvolume 9, Article number: 4360 (2018) |
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| 8th November | Ilian Despard | Measurement of the Planck constant at the National Institute of Standards and Technology from 2015 to 2017 Metrologia, Volume 54, Number 5 | |
| 15th November | Rudy Romain | Dating glacier ice of the last millennium by quantum technology arXiv:1811.03955 | |
| 29th November | Michael Wright | Experimental X-Ray Ghost Imaging Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 219902 (2016) | |
| 13th December | Katie McDonnell | Wiring up Quantum Systems Nature volume 451, pages 664–669 (07 February 2008) |