Jon, Molly & Sophie had a great time at the 2024 edition of the Gordon series “Mechanical Systems in the Quantum Regime“, presenting posters, discussing science and livin’ that beach life! And there’s friend of the group Ben Siegel making an appearance.
We’re excited to share that The Leverhulme Trust has funded our crazy new project L-PAC: Levitated Physical Analogue Computer. Building on our work in nano-thermodynamics, we aim to use levitated microparticles to understand other physical systems, for example in biology.
This project will be hiring a lab-based PhD student (October ’24 or January ’25) and a theory Postdoc for 3-5 years, contact James or see our Vacancies page for more information.
It was our pleasure to host Ben Siegel from Prof David Moore’s group in Yale for several weeks at the beginning of this year. This was part of the STFC funded project EDIQuS, where we have been working on detection technologies to monitor and control arrays of levitated microparticles. It was a fruitful collaboration, and a lot of fun!
Yanhui joined us in 2018, and we are sad to lose him, but excited about his future research career at ETH Zurich.
It was a pleasure to host Dr Jaya Vijayan as an extended visitor to the group. We’re looking forward to many more collaborations in the future.
Welcome to our newest recruit, Sophie Sanghera, who will be working on rotations in an optical cavity.
Yanhui & James M were excited to attend the LeviNet sponsored meeting Exploiting Levitated Particles in the Quantum Regime in Bad Honef, Germany. James presented the group’s work on levitated electromechanics.
We were proud to participate in the first UK Nanoday. Thanks for He, Joe, Jon & Molly for attending with our Quantum Workshop demos!
Many useful discussions at the ECT conference on “QUANTUM SENSING AND FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS WITH LEVITATED MECHANICAL SYSTEMS” in Trento.
Welcome Jon, who has joined us after completing his thesis “Microwave induced optical nonlinearities in cuprous oxide” at Durham University. He will be working on our electromechanics projects.
Levitated Nanophysics Group 