Oxford Instruments Visit the Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials
Visiting scientists run Industrial Training Module at the BCFN
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News in 2016
QET Labs PhD student Euan Allen shortlisted for Institute of Physics award for outstanding science communication
Euan Allen, a QET Labs PhD student at the University of Bristol, has been shortlisted for the Institute of Physics (IOP) award recognising outstanding science communicators.
BCFN teams up with local NHS staff
Return to the World Economic Forum for Professor Jeremy O'Brien
Professor Jeremy O'Brien has been invited by the World Economic Forum - Network of Global Future Councils to be co-chair of the Global Future Council on Computing for the 2016-2018 term.
Quantum Technologies: Today and Tomorrow
The Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QETLabs) at Bristol University invite UK businesses to attend an industry day focused on Quantum Technologies and how they can be incorporated into the modern business.
Quantum Technologies: Today and Tomorrow
The Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QETLabs) at Bristol University invite UK businesses to attend an industry day focused on Quantum Technologies and how they can be incorporated into the modern business.
The houseplant with a blueprint for improving energy harvesting
Findings show that the chloroplasts of some begonias have evolved a nanoscale light-trapping structure to help them survive in the darkness of the forest floor.
QECDT 2016 open day announced
The Quantum Engineering Centre for Doctoral Training (QECDT) have announced their open day for prospective students. It will be held on December 7th in the Bristol Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering Building within the University of Bristol.
WIRED interviews KETS about Quantum Cryptography
KETS, a University spin-out focusing on Quantum Cryptography by researchers from the Centre for Quantum Photonics have appeared in an article in WIRED Security.
Welcoming our new CDT-CMP cohort
We're delighted to usher our new students starting in 2016!
CDT-CMP Annual Conference 2016
The CDT-CMP welcomed staff, students, and parters to the annual conference, held at the University of Bath
23 men (and women) in a boat!
The students and staff of the CDT-CMP gathered for our annual summer social - this year on a narrowboat!
News and views in JPhys+
CDT-CMP students to continue their successful JPhys+ guest blog
The Importance of Outreach
Current student Rebecca Purkiss tells us about working with schoolchildren
Towards practical quantum metrology with photon counting
Scientists are harnessing quantum physical effects to achieve sensors with unprecedented sensitivity. Researchers from the Centre for Quantum Photonics have sought a new approach to quantum measurements and have had their results published in Nature.
Professor Jeremy O'Brien at 17th Annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit
QET Labs launches new Blog & YouTube channel
The Quantum Engineering Technology Labs, the University of Bristol's quantum initiative have created a new blog and YouTube channel where you can get information about the quantum research being undertaken at the University and meet the people behind the research.
Knots in chaotic waves
New research, using computer models of wave chaos, has shown that three-dimensional tangled vortex filaments can in fact be knotted in many highly complex ways.
CQP Alumni invited to meet Tim Peake and Theresa May
On the 18th July, Dr Peter Shadbolt previous researcher and collaborator of the Centre for Quantum Photonics, was invited by the Prime Minister, Theresa May to attend a welcome home reception for British Astronaut Tim Peake.
Quantum Logic paper could help in developing Quantum Information Processors
A paper on Quantum Logic by Bristol physicists in collaboration with researchers at University of Oxford was released in Physical Review Letters (PRL) this week.
Jude Laverock wins Faculty of Science Students’ Award for Outstanding Teaching
Congratulations to Jude Laverock, winner of the Faculty of Science Students’ Award for Outstanding Teaching
Professor Sandu Popescu awarded the Dirac Medal of the IOP
The Institute of Physics (IOP) has awarded the Dirac medal to Professor Sandu Popescu for his contribution to quantum physics, recognising his work to further the understanding of quantum physics and his research into nonlocality.
CQP Researcher wins 'I'm a Scientist...Get me out of here!'
QECDT and CQP Researcher Euan Allen won science competition 'I'm a Scientist...Get me out of here!' - a free online event allows school students to meet and interact with scientists.
QETLabs at Cheltenham Science Festival
Researchers from the Centre for Quantum Photonics and Quantum Engineering Centre for Doctoral Training delighted the general public with the quirks of optics and quantum mechanics at this year’s Cheltenham Science Festival.
Quantum Europe 2016: A New Era of Technology
Dr Anthony Laing, Bristol Lecturer in Quantum Physics and EPSRC Early Career Fellow, spoke last month at Quantum Europe in Amsterdam where the €1bn European flagship for quantum technologies was launched
QECDT at Research without Borders
New design of primitive quantum computer finds application
Scientists and engineers from the Universities of Bristol and Western Australia have developed how to efficiently simulate a “quantum walk” on a new design for a primitive quantum computer.
Light: can you feel the force?
New paper in Optica for CQP physicists
Physicists at the Centre for Quantum Photonics, University of Bristol have made improvements in loss, which will allow this quantum photonic interconnect to provide new levels of flexibility in quantum systems and architectures.
Leaders of the Quantum Technologies revolution come to Bristol for BQIT:16
From the 6 - 8th April 2016, 200 academics and industry leaders headed to Bristol for the annual Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop (BQIT) 2016.
Bristol physicists fly drone over Old Trafford to research landmine clearance
University of Bristol physicists researching how drones can be used to speed up landmine clearance flew a drone over Old Trafford on Monday 4th April 2016 – UN International Day for Mine Awareness – to demonstrate how large, football pitch-sized areas can be mapped quickly.
Future Brunels visit the Centre for Quantum Photonics
For the second year in a row, Bristol Optical Students’ Society (BOSS) hosted the visit of a new generation of young “Future Brunels” in the Centre for Quantum Photonics (CQP).
School of Physics newsletter - special undergraduate edition
Students at the University of Bristol's School of Physics tell us what a welcoming and supportive place it is to study. To give you a taste of student life we have produced a special newsletter.
Golden opportunities for Bristol PhD student Euan Allen
Bristol University PhD student, Euan Allen has won a prestigious Gold award at the final of the SET for Britain Exhibition, held in Westminster on Monday 7th March.
Bristol leading on Quantum Innovation
The University of Bristol’s Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QETLabs) has set out to change the way quantum technologies are designed, developed and manufactured and to create a world-leading centre to train entrepreneurially-minded quantum engineers. Today [Tuesday 1 March] the Universities & Science Minister Jo Johnson announced QETLabs has been successfully awarded funding of £9 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to make this happen.
QEP Group Doctoral Research Prize awarded to CQP Researcher 2016
The Institute of Physics announced this week that the 2016 QEP Doctoral Research Prize has been awarded to Dr. Joshua Silverstone from the Centre for Quantum Photonics for his work on ‘Entangled Light in Silicon Waveguides’, under the supervision of Professors Mark Thompson and Jeremy O’Brien.
EPSRC Quantum Technology Fellowships awarded to early-career academics.
The Centre for Quantum Photonics is pleased to announce that two more of their academics, Dr Anthony Laing and Dr Ruth Oulton are among the latest recipients of the Quantum Technologies (QT) Fellowship, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). These fellowships will support the UK’s activities as a world leader in QT in order to meet future needs across the science and technology base.
IAC wins two out of three awards at recent technology supply chain event.
A number of members of the IAC recently attended (11th February 2016) the Nuclear Institute event “Technology supply chain in action” in Cumbria to demonstrate some of the ongoing research performed that may aid in the decommissioning of nuclear facilities.
CQP PhD student receives IOP teaching scholarship
QECDT student wins renowned Erwin Schrödinger Prize
Stefan Frick, second year Quantum Engineering Centre for Doctoral Training (QECDT) student has been announced as co-winner of the esteemed Erwin Schrödinger Prize for his contribution to a project entitled "Quantum Communication in flight."