Author Archives: drjmillen

A preprint of an overview of the field of Quantum Thermodynamics has appeared online here now. It’s a good summary for physicists!

Our work on using Whispering Gallery Modes to cool the centre-of-mass motion of “large” objects is up on arxiv here. We are able to cool objects tens-of-microns in size, and microgramms in mass, using light!

I visited Aurelian Dantan in the Ion Trapping group at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, and gave a talk. I am particularly interested in their work on sympathetically cooling heavy ions, ions in optical cavities, as well as their … Continue reading →

Our paper “Quantum cooling and squeezing of a levitating nanosphere via time-continuous measurements” has been published in New Journal of Physics. In this work we describe how nanospheres in an optical cavity can be further cooled via feedback, and how … Continue reading →

I was invited to talk at Innsbruck for an SFB FoQuS meeting on the 10th July. It was my first trip to Innsbruck, a town seemingly besieged by mountains!

I have been invited to give my Quantum Theory lectures at the Royal Institution for the third year in a row!

Our work at UCL on cooling nanospheres in a hybrid trap has been highlighted by Nature Photonics! Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment