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Dr Almut Beige

Royal Society Research Fellow

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Since October 2002:

James Ellis University Research Fellow of the Royal Society and the GCHQ at the Quantum Optics and Laser Science group (QOLS), Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London

Before:

October 2003 - September 2004: Research visit to the Centre for Quantum Computation, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge

August 2000 - September 2002: Laser physics group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik in Garching by Munich

June 1998 - July 2000: Theoretical Quantum Optics Group at Imperial College London

March 1998 - May 1998: Quantum Theory Group at the University of Potsdam

December 1992 - January 1998: Quantum Optics Group at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Göttingen

Students:

PhD students: Yuan Liang Lim, Jeremy Metz

Former students: Christian Schön, Ben Tregenna, Carsten Marr, Hugo Cable

Research interests:

Quantum optics

Quantum mechanics of open quantum systems

Implementation of quantum computing

Quantum cryptography

Selected papers:

Cooling many particles to very low temperatures,
A. Beige, P. L. Knight, and G. Vitiello, quant-ph/0412100.

Quantum computing with distant single photon sources with insurance,
Y. L. Lim, A. Beige, and L. C. Kwek, quant-ph/0408043.

Decoherence-free dynamical and geometrical entangling phase gates,
J. Pachos and A. Beige, Phys. Rev. A 69, 033817 (2004). quant-ph/0309180.

Ion-trap quantum computing in the presence of cooling,
A. Beige, Phys. Rev. A 69, 012303 (2004). quant-ph/0304168.

Entangled state preparation via dissipation-assisted adiabatic passages,
C. Marr, A. Beige, and G. Rempe, Phys. Rev. A 68, 033817 (2003). quant-ph/0305116.

Secure communication with a publicly known key,
A. Beige, B.-G. Englert, C. Kurtsiefer, and H. Weinfurter, Acta Physica Polonica 101, 357 (2002). quant-ph/0111106.

Analysis of a two-atom double-slit experiment based on environment-induced measurements,
C. Schön and A. Beige, Phys. Rev. A 64, 023806 (2001). quant-ph/0104076.

Quantum computing using dissipation to remain in a decoherence-free subspace,
A. Beige, D. Braun, B. Tregenna, and P. L. Knight, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1762 (2000). quant-ph/0004043.

Projection postulate and atomic quantum Zeno effect,
A. Beige and G. C. Hegerfeldt, Phys. Rev. A 53, 53 (1996). quant-ph/9512012.