Quantum Light, Information, Matter and Electronics

The Quantum Light, Information, Matter and Electronics (QLIME) group involves both theoretical and experimental research across a broad range of topics in the quantum sciences. Our experimental researchers investigate and fabricate novel, bioinspired and atomically precise materials such as semiconductors, metamaterials and nanomaterials, while our theorists devise new models and mathematical techniques to understand the behaviour of quantum matter and quantum devices. Our research could ultimately enable us to engineer and control quantum states of matter and light with unprecedented precision.

	Head of Group Professor Meera Parish	Theory of strongly correlated phenomena in ultracold atomic gases and electron systems Superconductivity and superfluidity Low-dimensional systems Magnetotransport
	Associate Professor Mark Edmonds	Growth of novel two-dimensional topological materials including topological insulators and Dirac semimetals. Experiments utilizing synchrotron-based photoelectron spectroscopy, scanning tunnelling microscopy and electrical devices. Surface science
	Dr Dmitry Efimkin	Dirac materials: graphene, topological insulators, and Weyl semimetals Correlation and transport in closely spaced bilayer systems; the Coulomb drag effect Superconductivity, superfluidity and quantum magnetism Optical phenomena
	Professor Michael Fuhrer	Experiments on electronic devices made from novel two-dimensional materials such as graphene, layered transition metal dichalcogenides, topological insulators. Scanning tunnelling microscopy. Surface science
	Professor Kristian Helmerson	Quantum turbulence and superfluidity Bose gases in two-dimensions Emergent phenomena Mixed-species quantum gases Vortex imaging using tracer particles
	Associate Professor Jesper Levinsen	Many-body theory of Fermi gases Impurities in Fermi/Bose gases Quantum gases in confined geometries Few-body physics High temperature virial expansion
	Professor Stefan Maier	Nanophotonics Plasmonics Metasurfaces Energy conversion
	Professor Michael J. Morgan	Topological defects in physical systems Foundations of quantum mechanics Inverse problems
	Professor David Paganin	Optical physics using x-rays, electrons, light and matter waves Ghost imaging and optical coherence theory Singular optics: caustics, vortices, topological defects Phase retrieval and phase contrast imaging
	Associate Professor Agustin Schiffrin	Low-dimensional organic and metal-organic nanostructures on surfaces Probing electronic, optoelectronic, chemical and magnetic properties of interfaces at the atomic scale Low-temperature scanning probe microscopy Photoelectron and optical absorption spectroscopies Time-resolved studies of ultrafast electron dynamics
	Dr Lincoln Turner	Spinor Bose-Einstein condensates Precise measurement of magnetic fields Wavefunction engineering Ultracold spintronics and magnonics Quantum magnetometry

Research Fellows

	Dr Michael Barson	Nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond Quantum technology, microscopy and applied magnetometry Magnetic spin-resonance Solid-state spectroscopy
	Dr Matteo Caldara	Superfluidity and superconductivity in ultra-cold atomic gases Quantum vortices Polaron problem in Bose/Fermi gases Solid state systems with light-matter interactions
	Dr Julian Ceddia	Scanning tunnelling microscopy and non-contact atomic force microscopy 2D electronic organic and metal-organic nanostructures Electronic devices assembled from 2D materials
	Dr Fazeleh Kazemian	High-performance computing (HPC) for quantum calculations and large-scale simulations Mixed and dynamic precision strategies for GPU-accelerated electronic structure methods Fragmentation algorithms and scalable many-body quantum calculations Computational techniques for molecular modelling and materials discovery Quantum algorithms
	Dr Chi Li	Quantum emitters in 2D materials Integrated nanophotonic devices Metasurfaces and nanofabrication
	Dr Boqing Liu	Two-dimensional and van der Waals semiconductor materials Nanophotonics and nanofabrication Nonlinear and ultrafast optical spectroscopy
	Dr Mitko Oldfield	Nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond Quantum magnetometry and microscopy Magnetic spin-resonance Laser photonics
	Dr Giacomo Pantaleoni	Quantum computing Quantum error correction Quantum optics
	Dr Haoran Ren	Nanophotonics Structured light and topological photonics Metasurfaces and metafibre optics 3D direct laser writing Integrated photonics Structured light imaging, displays and holography
	Dr Angus Southwell	Quantum algorithms Quantum machine learning and connections to chaos Graph theory and probabilistic combinatorics Quantum error correction
	Dr Hamish Taylor	Quantum sensing of DC, RF, and Microwave signals Ultra-cold atomic gases and Bose-Einstein Condensates Digital signal processing, synthesis, and retrieval
	Dr Alex Tritt	Experimental quantum sensing of magnetic waveforms Quantum control, and modelling of time-dependent quantum mechanics Signal processing and inverse problems Currently working on diamond defects, coming from an ultracold atom background
	Dr Remmy Zen	Classical machine learning and optimisation techniques for quantum physics Quantum error correction Quantum computing Neural network quantum states