Monthly Archives: January 2016

I was very pleased to visit the Benson group at Humboldt University in Berlin. Just a short sleeper-train from Vienna! I am very interested in their work with nanoparticles in ion traps, and had the opportunity to talk to them … Continue reading →

Another slightly different paper… we did some work cooling really massive microspheres (micrograms) using their own Whispering Gallery Mode resonances, and it has just been published in Optics Express. Something easily big enough to see with your eye, cooled to … Continue reading →

My review article on Quantum Thermodynamics has been published in New Journal of Physics. It is a super-fast overview of the field, with a comprehensive reference list! James Millen and André Xuereb 2016 New J. Phys. 18 011002

As a nice start to the year, I have had an article published in the January issue of Physics World! It was written with André Xuereb at the University of Malta, and is called “Rise of the Quantum Machines“. The article … Continue reading →