Levitated Nanophysics Group

Qiongyuan spoke at the workshop on macroscopic superposition of levitated systems at CQT, National University of Singapore.

James opened Orkney International Science Festival and also reprised The Quantum State of Us with poet Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan. It was so much fun! He learned a lot about carrots!

It was a pleasure to attend the inspiring Optical Trapping & Micromanipulation XXII conference at SPIE Optics + Photonics 2025. Joe gave an invited talk “Rotation of levitated particles for precision sensing” and James gave the talk “Neuromorphic detection and control of levitated microparticles”. We came back with a lot of ideas…

Welcome to Dean Seo and Anoushka Sinha, our King’s Undergraduate Research Fellows this Summer, who have done amazing work on our (frankly crazy) analogue computer project

Welcome to Claire Goodall (in red), who joined us for some work experience looking at rotating nanoparticles with Qiongyuan. She made amazing progress in just one week. We hope one day she will be back in our lab…

Welcome to Assistant Professor İlhan Candan, joining us from Dicle Üniversitesi in Türkiye, who is joining us for 3 months as a visiting Fellow.

Molly talked about our work on thermodynamics at the Brownian Motion 2025 conference at EPFL, Switzerland. She met the Christopher Jarzynski, who is about as big a celebrity as you can get in stochastic thermodynamics!

Fedor is joining us as a King’s Quantum PhD student, and will be working on making levitated nanoparticle systems ready for quantum technologies.

It was super-fun to do BBC CrowdScience (listen here). I was joined by Harry Cliff and Kanta Dihal to discuss “What on Earth is Quantum?”.

Well done to Sophie for winning the poster prize at the King’s Quantum Annual Symposium, with her poster Rotational Optomechanics. She presented to Professor Sir Peter Knight FRS, the architect of the UK’s national quantum programme.