Author Archives: drjmillen

Our team had a great time participating in World Quantum Day on April 14th, as part of the London Centre for Nanotechnology / King’s Quantum. There’s a write-up here. We had the most ludicrously huge screen to show of our … Continue reading →

Ronghao headed over to ISTA Austria, visiting our friends in the Waitukaitis group and attending the Charged Matter 2025 conference. He had many interesting conversations about our charged particle arrays and neuromorphic imaging.

We have two exciting PhD opportunities at the moment. Firstly, we have our first project with the King’s Quantum mini-CDT in Applied Quantum Technologies, a project co-funded by industry to develop sensors from levitated nanoparticles. Apply Here to start in … Continue reading →

New pre-print! Our long-awaited super-hot heat engine paper is live! Congratulations Molly & Jon, old friends Katie & Muddassar, and fantastic collaborators Federico & Janet.

We’re very excited to welcome Dr Qiongyuan Wu to our group, who will be working on our micro-thermodynamics experiments – our first ever theorist in the group.

Our team warmly welcome poet Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan, who is working with us as part of the Goethe Institut‘s Studio Quantum project, in collaboration with the Science Gallery London. More information can be found in this interview.

Welcome Ronghao Yin, who joins us as a PhD student working on our mutliparticle levitation and neuromorphic imaging projects.

James presented the talk “Neuromorphic imaging of interacting particle arrays” in Denver at the Optical FiO 2024 conference. Learnt a lot about quantum computing. Learned that if you want to learn about quantum computing, don’t talk to people in the … Continue reading →

A whole load of us (Joe, Sophie, James, Jon, Molly) went to the Quantum Engineering of Levitated Systems conference in Benasque, and James presented the talk “Neuromorphic imaging of interacting particle arrays”. Every evening, the other attendees would forlornly ask … Continue reading →

As Chair or LeviNet, James co-organized the conference Optical Tweezers in vacuum with the Zhejiang Lab in Hangzhou China. Yugang and Zhenan from the group also attended. It was an amazing meeting, many new friendships made, lasting collaborations started. Also, … Continue reading →