Laing Group
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Professor Anthony Laing
QET Labs Co-Director & Professor of Physics
Research interests and activities
My group investigates how new technologies can be realised by harnessing the unusual properties of quantum physics. Over the coming years and decades, this field will have an increasing impact upon society, bringing a technological revolution potentially as far reaching as that of the information age of the twentieth century, or the industrial revolution. Among these advances, quantum computers and quantum simulators, will solve certain problems that would take conventional computers the lifetime of the universe to solve.
Major research topics
- Photonic quantum technologies
- Photonic quantum computing
- Photonic quantum simulation
(picture credit: Alex Jones)
Current postdocs and research fellows
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Dr Emilien Lavie
Research Associate
Current PhD students
- Tom Bell
- Ed Deacon
- Imogen Forbes
- Reece Shaw
- Brandon Horsley
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Naomi Solomons
Based with Duality Quantum Photonics
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Active grants
- 2019-24: QCS Hub
- 2019-24: Comms Hub Partnership resource
Recent publications
- J. F. F. Bulmer et al.''The boundary for quantum advantage in Gaussian boson sampling'', Science Advances, Vol 8, Issue 4 (2022)
- C. Vigliar et al. ''Error-protected qubits in a silicon photonic chip'', Nature Physics, 17, pages 1137–1143 (2021)
- S. Paesani et al. ''A scheme for universal high-dimensional quantum computation with linear optics'', Phys. Rev. Lett., 126, 230504 (2021)
- A.A.Gentile et al. ''Learning models of quantum from experiments'', Nature Physics, 17, pages 837–843 (2021)
- H. Zhang et al. ''An optical neural chip for implementing complex-valued neural network'', Nature Communications, 12, Article number: 457 (2021)
- S. Paesani et al. ''Near-ideal spontaneous photon in silicon quantum photonics'', Nature Communications, 11, Article number: 2505 (2020)
- J.Wang et al. ''Integrated Photonic Quantum Technologies'' Nature Photonics, 14, pages 273–284 (2019)
- S.Paesani et al. ''Generating and manipulating quantum states of light on a silicon chip'', Nature Physics, 15, pages 925–929 (2019)
- R. Santagati et al. ''Magnetic-field-learning using a single electronic spin with one-photon-readout at room temperature'', Phys. Rev. X, 021019 (2019)
- C. Sparrow et al. ''Simulating the vibrational quantum dynamics of molecules using photonics'', Nature, 557, pages 660–667 (2018)