Author Archives: drjmillen

Welcome to Elena Liberti, starting a PhD in the group. She will be working on inertial navigation with levitated microparticles.

We were very happy to welcome Melike Kaya into our group as a King’s Undergraduate Research Fellow. She worked on digitally simulating our levitated microparticles

Our new paper on optical levitation of silicon nanorods is now online: arXiv:2608.07415Congratulations to Zhenan and Sophie!

Congratulations Molly on passing your viva! And thank you to her examiners Prof Ian Ford and Prof Tracy Northup.

New work online! We continue our exploration into using levitated microparticles as a physical simulator of natural processes by studying the non-white source of noise known as Random Telegraph Noise. It was a heroic effort involving many generations of young … Continue reading →

We are offering a fully funded PhD studentship to start in October 2026, on the development of inertial sensors from levitated microparticles. This is industry co-funded by QinetiQ. Feel free to get in touch with James if you are curious. … Continue reading →

Sneaking in right at the end of the year, Ronghao and Yugang have put out this extremely enjoyable paper: Talking with a ghost: semi-virtual coupled levitated oscillators. Well done to all the authors, including our 2025 KURF students!

Our work on multiparticle detection and cooling paper has been published in Nature Communications. We believe this will be very useful for people wanting to work with arrays of small objects. Next step – control 1000 particles at once! Congratulations … Continue reading →

Our work on producing an extreme-temperature heat engine has been published in Physical Review Letters. This work has got a lot of attention for its crazy ten-million degree temperature, but the real scientific interest is in the dramatic thermal fluctuations … Continue reading →

We’re excited to have Bianca join the team as a new PhD student, working on our thermodynamics / levitated computer projects.