News and Events Archive

Nov 2018  ARC Discovery grant successes for CQOS

Oct 2018  CQOS team investigating novel materials that could be developed for future low-energy electronics

Sep 2018  CQOS paper on quantum effects causing classical symmetries to break down published in PRL

Aug 2018  Dr Tapio Simula to join CQOS as an ARC Future Fellow

Jun 2018  Prof Bryan Dalton elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics

Jun 2018  CQOS researchers contribute to newly launched FLEET Centre

Jun 2018  CQOS successes in inaugural Faculty research awards

Jun 2018  CQOS hosts first workshop of Melbourne Condensed Matter Community

May 2018  CQOS student Khoa Anh Tran wins Best Student Paper award at Photonics Europe 2018

Feb 2018  Quantum Scientists win major APS awards

Feb 2018  CQOS paper chosen as a Journal of Physics A Highlight of 2017

Jan 2018  CQOS theorists propose a new way to realize exotic spatially inhomogeneous Fermi superfluids

Nov 2017  Public Lecture by Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Ketterle at Swinburne on 30 November

Nov 2017  CQOS again enjoys strong ARC grant success

Oct 2017  Phys Rev A paper on dimensional crossover is Editor's suggestion

Oct 2017  Prof Margaret Reid elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

Oct 2017  CQOS publication receives Editor's suggestion award from Physical Review A

Sep 2017  CQOS theorists propose novel test of quantum mechanics

July 2017  Measurements of low-energy excitations in Fermi gases published in Nature Physics

July 2017  Cosmology with ultracold atoms wins prize at ICOLS2017

Mar 2017  Swinburne Research Impact magazine article on detection of Goldstone mode

Nov 2016  CQOS theorists predict novel Majorana soliton in topological fermionic superfluids

Nov 2016  Strong ARC success for CQOS

Oct 2016  Prof Hui Hu honoured with Fellowship of the American Physical Society

Oct 2016  Science Advances paper on XFEL-pulse-induced electron dynamics in C60

Sep 2016  CQOS to host node of new ARC CoE in Future Low Energy Electronic Technologies

May 2017  Two postdoctoral positions in ultracold Fermi gas experimental group

July 2016  Transforming quantum theories into quantum technologies

May 2016  CQOS physicists awarded 'Spotlight on Optics'

May 2016  Magnetic lattice paper in Highlights of Journal of Physics D for 2015

Feb 2016  CQOS salutes LIGO on gravitational wave observation

Feb 2016  Quantum teleportation: beam me up, Einstein and Schrödinger

Feb 2016  CQOS Professor elected as QUICC vice-chair

Jan 2016  CQOS entangles Australia and the Rhine

Jan 2016  Physics Viewpoint on PRL paper on thermodynamics of gases of fermionic atoms

Dec 2015  Quantum teleportation paper recognised in ScienceAlert

Dec 2015  Physics.org article: Einstein's 'spooky' steering needed for secure quantum teleportation

Apr 2016  SUPRA PhD scholarship available in Therory Group for project on Many Body Localization

Dec 2015  ANZSUP summer school a big success

Nov 2015  Strong CQOS involvement in Kangaroo Island Cold Atoms Workshop

Oct 2015  Physics Viewpoint on optical control of interactions of ultracold atoms

July 2015  Research on imaging with table-top EUV laser system featured in Novus Light Today

July 2015  CQOS Professor appointed to Physical Review Letters Editorial Board

July 2015  PhD scholarship available in Theory Group to study exotic states of matter

May 2015  Table-top extreme UV laser system heralds imaging at the nanoscale

Jan 2015  Extending Einstein's spooky action for use in quantum networks

Dec 2014  Brenton Hall and Wayne Rowlands share in VC Teaching Excellence Award

Nov 2014  "Phase Space Theory for Degenerate Quantum Gases" by B.J. Dalton, J. Jeffers and S.M. Barnett published by Oxford University Press

Nov 2014  Dr Yun Li wins ARC DECRA award to work in CQOS theory group

Sep 2014  CQOS theorists predict novel exotic gapless topological superfluids

July 2014  Assoc Prof Xiaji Liu awarded prestigious ARC Future Fellowship

Apr 2015  Two Postoctoral positions available in Theoretical Physics group

June 2014  'Challenging the spooky paradox' article in Venture magazine

June 2014  'Einstein v. quantum mechanics' article by Margaret Reid in physics.org

May 2014  CQOS team observes Bose Einstein condensation in magnetic lattice

Apr 2014  New book, 'Quantum Theory of Nonlinear Optics' by P Drummond and M. Hillery, published by Cambridge University Press

Mar 2014  Results on multipartite steering and a secure internet featured in Swinburne News, Science Daily

Mar 2014  Professor Margaret Reid elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences

Mar 2014  PRL paper on pair condensation in Fermi gas selected as Editor's Suggestion

Feb 2014  Nature Physics paper on realization of 1D quantum liquid with tunable spin  Link to paper

Jan 2014  Three Postdoctoral Fellowships available in Theoretical Physics

Dec 2013  Vice-Chancellors Award for Research Excellence awarded to Fermion group

Dec 2013  Vu Hoang Le wins student talk prize at ANZCOP conference in Fremantle

Nov 2013  Multipartite Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering paper published in PRL

Nov 2013  CAOUS to be renamed Centre for Quantum and Optical Science

Nov 2013  Future Fellowship for A/Prof. Hui Hu

Nov 2013  Dr Paul Dyke wins ARC DECRA award to return to CAOUS

Nov 2013  Three further ARC Discovery Project grants won by CAOUS researchers

Nov 2013  CAOUS researchers win LIEF grant to develop ultrafast microscopy facility

Sep 2013  CAOUS paper on Quantum Simulations of the Early Universe featured in The Physics arXiv Blog

Aug 2013  Victorian Summer School in Ultracold Physics January 2014

Aug 2013  Postdoctoral Fellowship available in Ultrafast Spectroscopy

July 2013  Two Postdoctoral positions available in Ultracold Fermi Gases group

Jan 2013  Precision measurement of the contact parameter published in PRL

Jan 2013  Swinburne prediction on universal impurity bound state highlighted by PRL editors

Dec 2012  Postdoctoral Research Fellow position available in Magnetic Lattice project

Nov 2012  Four ARC Discovery Projects grants won by CAOUS researchers

Oct 2012  Dr. Eva Kuhnle wins AIP Bragg Gold Medal for Excellence in Physics

Oct 2012  Peter Drummond awarded university honour

Aug 2012  Chinese international linkage grant awarded to CAOUS researcher

Aug 2012  Spin Bragg Spectroscopy technique in Physical Review Letters

July 2012  Two ARC Future Fellowships awarded to CAOUS researchers

May 2012  Invited commentary on repulsive polarons in Nature

May 2012  Cover of inaugural issue of APPN features work on spin-orbit-coupled BECs

Mar 2012  Paper on universal contact of interacing fermions in New Journal of Physics 2011 Highlights

Feb 2012  Paper on novel technique for probing atomic coherence in J.Phys.B 2011 Highlights

Jan 2012  CAOUS researcher wins prestigious ETS Walton Fellowship

Jan 2012  CAOUS study on the role of quantum effects in photosynthesis highlighted

Nov 2011  Novel superfluidity in ultracold atomic Fermi gases predicted by CAOUS researchers

Sep 2011  CAOUS researchers explain cold atom confinement resonance physics mystery

Apr 2011  CAOUS researchers measure temperature dependence of the contact in a unitary Fermi gas

Apr 2011  Swinburne researchers produce isolated 2D Fermi gas

Dec 2010  CAOUS to host Victorian Summer School in Ultracold Physics

Sep 2010  CAOUS theorists' work highlighted by Physics - spotlighting exceptional research

Aug 2010  Queen to viral pawn: CAOUS researchers' work features in Science Alert

Aug 2010  Swinburne paper on pair correlations in Fermi gases highlighted by PRL editors

Jul 2010  PRL paper on three-body recombination in a dilute system of dipoles

Mar 2010  Top French laboratory confirms SUT prediction

Oct 2009  Swinburne & US collaboration demonstrates new method to control ultracold collisions

Oct 2009  Virtual Journal of Atomic Quantum Fluids highlights BEC relative phase evolution work

Sept 2009  High harmonic generation work featured in Journal of Applied Physics research highlights

Sept 2009  The Age reports on recent breakthroughs in ultracold molecule experiments

June 2009  Europhysics News highlights atom chip fabrication with fs-laser ablation.

April 2009  New paper on virial epansion for a srongly correlated Fermi gas published in PRL

December 2008  Bragg spectroscopy of ultracold Fermi gas paper published in PRL

December 2008  CAOUS Tier 1 centre status renewed until 2015

October 2008  Prof Peter Drummond wins 2008 AIP Boas Medal

October 2008  ARC grant successes

June 2008  Two-dimensional Fourier transform spectroscopy paper in PRL

April 2008  Universal Dipolar Scattering paper published in PRL

February 2008  Molecular BEC paper in J.Phys.B Highlights of 2007

May 2008  Postdoc position available in Stochastic Dynamics of Viral Populations

November 2007  Femtosecond laser facility opened

September 2007  CAOUS researcher wins Young Tall Poppy award

April 2007  Molecular Bose-Einstein Condensate at Swinburne

March 2007  Atom chip paper in Highlights 2006 of Journal of Physics B

January 2007  Quantum Sensor of Asymmetric Potentials paper in Phys Rev Lett

December 2006  AFM image of magnetic domain labyrinth selected for calendar