This summer saw the University of Bristol hold the 16th triennial International Conference on Positron Annihilation (ICPA-16) with attendance from over 200 people from 28 different countries. Bristol has a rich history in positron physics; Paul Dirac, who predicted the existence of the positron in 1928, lived here in his childhood and studied in Bristol as an undergraduate.
The Centre for Quantum Photonics' recent work has been highlighted as one of 'Science's 10 Hottest Fields' in the Financial Times.
Two CQP PhD students have received commendations for their posters presented at this year's Postgraduate Conference.
The results of a collaboration between Bristol's Stephen Hayden and colleagues based in Birmingham, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Vancouver, and Villigen were published in October by Nature Physics. The results show that high temperature superconductivity in layered cuprates can develop from an electronically ordered state called a charge density wave.
Congratulations to Nick Wakeham of the Correlated Electron Systems research group for winning the inaugural Physics Graduate School research paper prize.
BBC Radio interview
Professor Sandu Popescu has been awarded the Templeton Frontiers Program Visiting Research Chair.
The University of Toronto selected Professor Popescu to receive the prize in recognition of "his enormous contributions to the field of quantum mechanics."
An article 'Recycled photons set fresh quantum computing record' has been published in the New Scientist following research published in Nature Photonics.
A CQP paper, 'Simulating quantum statistics with entangled photons: a continuous transition from bosons to fermions', with our collaborators has appeared on the quant-ph arXiv
