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Journal articleMorris SJ, Ho CJ, Fischer SM, et al., 2025,
Scaling laws governing the collapse of a Bose-Einstein condensate
, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol: 111, ISSN: 2469-9926- Cite
- Citations: 1
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Journal articleAbdalla A, Abe M, Abend S, et al., 2025,
Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry: summary of the second workshop
, EPJ Quantum Technology, Vol: 12, ISSN: 2196-0763This summary of the second Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry (TVLBAI) Workshop provides a comprehensive overview of our meeting held in London in April 2024 (Second Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry Workshop, Imperial College, April 2024), building on the initial discussions during the inaugural workshop held at CERN in March 2023 (First Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry Workshop, CERN, March 2023). Like the summary of the first workshop (Abend et al. in AVS Quantum Sci. 6:024701, 2024), this document records a critical milestone for the international atom interferometry community. It documents our concerted efforts to evaluate progress, address emerging challenges, and refine strategic directions for future large-scale atom interferometry projects. Our commitment to collaboration is manifested by the integration of diverse expertise and the coordination of international resources, all aimed at advancing the frontiers of atom interferometry physics and technology, as set out in a Memorandum of Understanding signed by over 50 institutions (Memorandum of Understanding for the Terrestrial Very Long Baseline Atom Interferometer Study).
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Journal articleAthanasakis-Kaklamanakis M, Wilkins SG, Skripnikov LV, et al., 2025,
Electron correlation and relativistic effects in the excited states of radium monofluoride
, NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, Vol: 16- Cite
- Citations: 4
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Journal articleAllegre H, Broughton JJ, Klee T, et al., 2025,
Extension of high-harmonic generation cutoff in solids to 50 eV using MgO
, OPTICS LETTERS, Vol: 50, Pages: 1492-1495, ISSN: 0146-9592- Cite
- Citations: 1
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Journal articleKlee T, Mukherjee R, Broughton JJ, et al., 2025,
Bayesian optimization of resonant dispersive wave generation in hollow capillary fibers
, Optics Express, Vol: 33, ISSN: 1094-4087Resonant dispersive wave (RDW) generation in hollow capillary fibers (HCFs) is a powerful technique for producing ultrashort light pulses in the deep ultraviolet range, which are important for ultrafast spectroscopy and material processing. However, the complex nonlinear dynamics governing this process and the large associated parameter space make it challenging to achieve optimal RDW pulses with the highest peak power. In this study, Bayesian optimization (BO) is coupled with the open source Luna.jl simulation framework to optimize the HCF and pump pulse paramters for less than 5 femtosecond (fs) RDW generation at a target wavelength of 200 nm. Temporally non-structured RDW were consistently identified with peak powers of up to 14 GW, exceeding experimentally published values by up to 70 %. Furthermore, a subset of the RDW optima exhibited an energy stability that is better than that of the pump pulse. Given that this approach can be generalized to other RDW wavelengths, our findings suggest that BO is a valuable tool in developing HCF systems that support RDW generation tailored to a particular experimental need.
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Journal articleCryer-Jenkins EA, Major KD, Clarke J, et al., 2025,
Enhanced Laser Cooling of a Mechanical Resonator via Zero-Photon Detection
, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, Vol: 134, ISSN: 0031-9007 -
Journal articleClarke J, Cryer-Jenkins EA, Gupta A, et al., 2025,
Theoretical framework for enhancing or enabling cooling of a mechanical resonator via the anti-Stokes or Stokes interaction and zero-photon detection
, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol: 111, ISSN: 2469-9926 -
Journal articleSun J, Vilchez-Estevez L, Vedral V, et al., 2025,
Probing spectral features of quantum many-body systems with quantum simulators
, NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, Vol: 16- Cite
- Citations: 6
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Journal articleWang Y, Rodewald J, Lopez O, et al., 2025,
Wavelength modulation laser spectroscopy of N<sub>2</sub>O at 17 <i>μ</i>m
, NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, Vol: 27, ISSN: 1367-2630- Cite
- Citations: 1
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Journal articleWang J, Driver T, Franz PL, et al., 2025,
Probing Electronic Coherence between Core-Level Vacancies at Different Atomic Sites
, PHYSICAL REVIEW X, Vol: 15, ISSN: 2160-3308 -
Journal articleWang P, Kwon H, Luan C-Y, et al., 2025,
Snapshotting quantum dynamics at multiple time points (vol 15, 8900, 2024)
, NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, Vol: 16 -
Journal articleCryer-Jenkins E, Leung A, Rathee H, et al., 2025,
Brillouin-Mandelstam scattering in telecommunications optical fiber at millikelvin temperatures
, APL Photonics, Vol: 10, ISSN: 2378-0967Brillouin–Mandelstam scattering is a strong and readily accessible optical nonlinearity, enabling a wide array of applications and research directions. For instance, the three-wave mixing process has been employed to great success in narrow-linewidth lasers, sensing applications, microscopy, and signal processing. While most of these avenues focus on room temperature operation, there is now increasing interest in cryogenic operation owing to the scattering mechanism’s significant potential for applications and fundamental physics at low temperatures. Here, we measure the Brillouin scattering spectrum in standard single-mode telecommunication optical fibers at millikelvin temperatures using a closed-cycle dilution refrigerator and optical heterodyne detection. Our experiments are performed with a cryostat temperature from 50 mK to 27 K, extending previously reported measurements that utilized liquid helium-4 cryostats with temperatures greater than 1 K. At millikelvin temperatures, our experiment observes coherent acoustic interactions with microscopic defects in the amorphous material—two-level-systems (TLSs)—which has not been previously observed in optical fibers. The measured behavior of the linewidth with temperature is in agreement with the well-established models of ultrasonic attenuation in amorphous materials comprising a background intrinsic scattering, thermally activated scattering, and incoherent and coherent TLS interactions. This work provides a foundation for a wide range of applications and further research, including sensing applications, new approaches to investigate TLS physics, and Brillouin-scattering-based quantum science and technology.
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Conference paperRowley M, Webber-Date A, Osborn PF, et al., 2025,
A Quantum-classical cold atom system for inertial navigation
Global positioning and navigation using satellites has been a crucial part of modern infrastructure since the development of GPS in the 1970s, providing a positioning uncertainty less than 5 meters. However, such signals cannot be accessed underground or underwater and may be jammed or spoofed with relative ease. There remains, therefore, an important and practical need for precision navigation that does not rely on communication with an external source.
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Conference paperWhite AD, Ainsworth A, Bahra D, et al., 2025,
Quantum Sensing for Rail Positioning
Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) are critical to our daily lives and underpin numerous sectors including transport, finance, and defence. The estimated financial impact of GNSS failure for the UK is over £1bn per day [1]. In areas where GNSS cannot be used, inertial navigation provides an alternative to accurately position vehicles. For many applications, the drift in the classical accelerometers and gyroscopes that underpin inertial navigation systems limits the position accuracy that can be achieved.
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Conference paperVanner MR, 2025,
Towards quantum science and technology with Brillouin-Mandelstam scattering
, 2025 Conference on Quantum Sensing, Imaging, and Precision Metrology, Publisher: SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING, ISSN: 0277-786X -
Conference paperWebber-Date A, Rowley M, Osborn PF, et al., 2025,
A quantum-classical cold atom system for inertial navigation
, 2025 Conference on Quantum Sensing, Imaging, and Precision Metrology, Publisher: SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING, ISSN: 0277-786X -
Journal articleGerry CC, Birrittella RJ, Alsing PM, et al., 2024,
Non-classicality and the effect of one photon
, PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES, Vol: 382, ISSN: 1364-503X- Cite
- Citations: 2
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Journal articleOrozco Ruiz M, Le NH, Mintert F, 2024,
Quantum control without quantum states
, PRX Quantum, ISSN: 2691-3399We show that combining ideas from the fields of quantum invariants and of optimal control can be used to design optimal quantum control solutions without explicit reference to quantum states. We describe how control problems for state preparation and the realization of propagators can be formulated in this approach, and we provide explicit control solutions for a spin chain with an extended Ising Hamiltonian. The states considered for state-preparation protocols include eigenstates of Hamiltonians with more than pairwise interactions, and these Hamiltonians are also used for the definition of target propagators. The cost of describing suitable time-evolving operators grows only quadratically with the system size, allowing us to construct explicit control solutions for up to 50 spins. While sub-exponential scaling is obtained only in special cases, we provide several examples that demonstrate favourable scaling beyond the extended Ising model.
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Journal articleWhite A, Popa S, Mellado Munoz J, et al., 2024,
Slow molecular beams from a cryogenic buffer gas source
, Physical Review Research, Vol: 6, ISSN: 2643-1564We study the properties of a cryogenic buffer gas source that uses a low temperature two-stage buffer gas cell to produce very slow beams of ytterbium monofluoride molecules. The molecules are produced by laser ablation inside the cell and extracted into a beam by a flow of cold helium. We measure the flux and velocity distribution of the beam as a function of ablation energy, helium flow rate, cell temperature, and the size of the gap between the first and second stages of the cell. We also compare the velocity distributions from one-stage and two-stage cells. The one-stage cell emits a beam with a speed of about 82 m s¯¹ and a translational temperature of 0.63 K. The slowest beams are obtained using the two-stage cell at the lowest achievable cell temperature of 1.8 K. This beam has a peak velocity of 56 m s¯¹ and a flux of 9×10⁹ ground state molecules per steradian per pulse, with a substantial fraction at speeds below 40 m s¯¹. These slow molecules can be decelerated further by radiation pressure slowing and then captured in a magneto-optical trap.
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Journal articleFerte A, Austin D, Johnson AS, et al., 2024,
Signature of Attochemical Quantum Interference upon Ionization and Excitation of an Electronic Wave Packet in Fluorobenzene
, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, Vol: 133, ISSN: 0031-9007 -
Journal articleVylegzhanin A, Chormaic SN, Brown DJ, 2024,
Rydberg electromagnetically induced transparency based laser lock to Zeeman sublevels with 0.6 GHz scanning range
, REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS, Vol: 95, ISSN: 0034-6748- Cite
- Citations: 2
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Journal articleWang P, Kwon H, Luan C-Y, et al., 2024,
Snapshotting quantum dynamics at multiple time points
, NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, Vol: 15 -
Journal articleBroughton JJ, Patra S, Parkes MA, et al., 2024,
A multiphoton ionisation photoelectron imaging study of thiophene
, PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, Vol: 26, Pages: 25461-25468, ISSN: 1463-9076- Cite
- Citations: 1
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Journal articleDevlin J, 2024,
Dark matter: what is it, and can quantum sensors help find it?
, Contemporary Physics, Vol: 65, Pages: 239-258, ISSN: 0010-7514Dark matter is the name given to the unknown substance or substances which appears to make up 26.4(6)% of the total mass-energy density of the Universe, making it 5 times more abundant than normal matter. Over 50 years of measurements have given us considerable evidence for the existence of dark matter and some of its properties. However, we still do not know, microscopically, what sort of stuff it is. In recent years, researchers have started to use techniques developed in quantum science to build experiments which are sensitive to certain types of dark matter. These techniques rely on the remarkable progress in isolating and measuring specific quantum systems, to such an extent that these experiments are now sensitive to the weak perturbations due to dark matter. This article gives an introduction to dark matter and efforts to search for it with quantum sensors.
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Journal articlePitchford A, Rakhubovsky AA, Mukherjee R, et al., 2024,
Bayesian optimization of non-classical optomechanical correlations
, QUANTUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Vol: 9, ISSN: 2058-9565 -
Journal articleRuberti M, Averbukh V, Mintert F, 2024,
Bell test of quantum entanglement in attosecond photoionization
, Physical Review X, Vol: 14, ISSN: 2160-3308Attosecond physics enables the study of ultrafast coherent electron dynamics in matter upon photoexcitation and photoionization, revealing spectacular effects such as hole migration and coherentAuger dynamics in molecules. In the photoionization scenario, there has been a strong focus onprobing the physical manifestations of internal quantum coherence within the individual parent ionand photoelectron systems. However, quantum correlations between these two subsystems emergingfrom attosecond photoionization events have thus far remained much more elusive. In this work, wedesign theoretically and model numerically a direct probe of quantum entanglement in attosecondphotoionization in the form of a Bell test. We simulate from first principles a Bell test protocolfor the case of noble gas atoms photoionized by ultrashort, circularly polarized infrared laser pulsesin the strong-field regime predicting robust violation of the Bell inequality. This theoretical resultpaves the way for the direct observation of entanglement in the context of ultrafast photoionizationof many-electron systems. Our work provides a novel perspective on attosecond physics directedtoward the detection of quantum correlations between systems born during attosecond photoionization and unraveling the signatures of entanglement in ultrafast coherent molecular dynamics,including in the chemical decomposition pathways of molecular ions.
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Journal articleSchofield RC, Fu M, Clarke E, et al., 2024,
Bose–Einstein condensation of light in a semiconductor quantum well microcavity
, Nature Photonics, Vol: 18, ISSN: 1749-4885When particles with integer spin accumulate at low temperature and high density, they undergo Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC). Atoms, magnons, solid-state excitons, surface plasmon polaritons and excitons coupled to light exhibit BEC, which results in high coherence due to massive occupation of the respective system’s ground state. Surprisingly, photons were shown to exhibit BEC recently in organic-dye-flled optical microcavities, which—owing to the photon’s low mass—occurs at room temperature. Here we demonstrate that photons within an inorganic semiconductor microcavity also thermalize and undergo BEC. Although semiconductor lasers are understood to operate out of thermal equilibrium, we identify a region of good thermalization in our system where we can clearly distinguish laser action from BEC. Semiconductor microcavities are a robust system for exploring the physics and applications of quantum statistical photon condensates. In practical terms, photon BECs ofer their critical behaviour at lower thresholds than lasers. Our study shows two further advantages: the lack of dark electronic states in inorganic semiconductors allows these BECs to be sustained continuously; and quantum wells ofer stronger photon–photon scattering. We measure an unoptimized interaction parameter ( g̃ ≳ 10–3), which is large enough to access the rich physics of interactions within BECs, such as superfuid light.
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Journal articleYu S, Jia Z, Zhang A, et al., 2024,
Shedding light on the future: exploring quantum neural networks through optics
, Advanced Quantum Technologies, ISSN: 2511-9044At the dynamic nexus of artificial intelligence and quantum technology, quantum neural networks (QNNs) play an important role as an emerging technology in the rapidly developing field of quantum machine learning. This development is set to revolutionize the applications of quantum computing. This article reviews the concept of QNNs and their physical realizations, particularly implementations based on quantum optics. The integration of quantum principles with classical neural network architectures is first examined to create QNNs. Some specific examples, such as the quantum perceptron, quantum convolutional neural networks, and quantum Boltzmann machines are discussed. Subsequently, the feasibility of implementing QNNs through photonics is analyzed. The key challenge here lies in achieving the required non-linear gates, and measurement-induced approaches, among others, seem promising. To unlock the computational potential of QNNs, addressing the challenge of scaling their complexity through quantum optics is crucial. Progress in controlling quantum states of light is continuously advancing the field. Additionally, it has been discovered that different QNN architectures can be unified through non-Gaussian operations. This insight will aid in better understanding and developing more complex QNN circuits.
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Journal articleLee JP, Avni T, Alexander O, et al., 2024,
Few-femtosecond soft X-ray transient absorption spectroscopy with tuneable DUV-Vis pump pulses
, Optica, Vol: 11, Pages: 1320-1323, ISSN: 2334-2536Achieving few-femtosecond resolution for a pump-probe experiment is crucial to measuring the fastest electron dynamics and for creating superpositions of valence states in quantum systems. However, traditional UV-Vis pump pulses cannot achieve few-fs durations and usually operate at fixed wavelengths. Here, we present, to our knowledge, an unprecedented temporal resolution and pump tuneability for UV-Vis-pumped soft X-ray transient absorption spectroscopy. We have combined few-fs deep-UV to visible tuneable pump pulses from resonant dispersive wave emission in hollow capillary fiber with attosecond soft X-ray probe pulses from high harmonic generation. We achieve sub-5-fs time resolution, sub-fs interferometric stability, and continuous tuneability of the pump pulses from 230 to 700 nm. We demonstrate that the pump can initiate an ultrafast photochemical reaction and that the dynamics at different atomic sites can be resolved simultaneously. These capabilities will allow studies of the fastest electronic dynamics in a large range of photochemical, photobiological and photovoltaic reactions.
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Journal articleKilian E, Rademacher M, Gosling JMH, et al., 2024,
Dark matter searches with levitated sensors
, AVS Quantum Science, Vol: 6, ISSN: 2639-0213Motivated by the current interest in employing quantum sensors on Earth and in space to conduct searches for new physics, we provide a perspective on the suitability of large-mass levitated optomechanical systems for observing dark matter signatures. We discuss conservative approaches of recoil detection through spectral analysis of coherently scattered light, enhancements of directional effects due to cross-correlation spectral densities, and the possibility of using quantum superpositions of mesoscopic test particles to measure rare events.
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