I'm happy to announce that the Career Pathway Tracker is now published! The main career pathway tracker webpage is here: Career pathway tracker | Royal Society and you can find your case studies in the Career pathway tracker booklet on pages 28 and 41. If you are looking to share a social media post about this then you can find those at linkedin, Bluesky, or threads.
We are delighted to share that our PhD student, Maciej Tomasz Jarema, recently won an award for the best poster presentation at the QTFP Community Meeting in Glasgow. Maciek earned this award for his scientific poster about a possible way of measuring information in thin film superfluid helium simulators of scalar quantum fields. In the poser, Maciek explains how possible future experiments could inform the scaling of entropy and mutual information; leading to observations of area laws.
Our PhD student Leonardo Solidoro took a wonderful picture of our "LEGO with lasers", selected by Nature to be part of this article. Complete with fully functioning lasers, mirrors, and beam splitters, this ‘LEGO interferometer’ was designed by researchers at the University of Nottingham, UK, and can be seen in action at a public exhibition at the university’s Djanogly Art Gallery.
Dr. Patrik Svancara, postdoc part of our research team, has been invited for an interview on Notts Today, a TV show dedicated to news and views for all things in Nottingham.
Chris Goodwin, a postdoc researcher in our group, recently won the IOP Low Temperature Thesis Prize for 2024. The prize is awarded for the PhD thesis that makes the strongest contribution to the development of low temperature physics and technology that year. Chris was awarded the prize for developing a sub-Kelvin imaging system to observe quantum turbulence in superfluid helium, the first apparatus of its kind capable of operating in the zero temperature limit. The system uses observations of micron-sized tracer particles, interacting with quantized vortices in a sample of pure superfluid, to extend our understanding of the dynamics of quantum turbulence.
Modules on: Quantum Information and Computation, Coherent Devices, Quantum Metrology, Quantum Technology, Machine Learning, Light and Matter, Practical Quantum Computing and more.
The award shall be made to an outstanding PhD student in the research areas comprising scientific computation, fluid mechanics or industrial applied mathematics, based on their performance and outputs during the first two years of their PhD.
We are thrilled to announce that QSimFP postdoc Sam Patrick, former PhD student in our group, has been awarded the prestigious Stephen Hawking Fellowship. This highly competitive fellowship supports innovative research in theoretical physics and closely related fields, reflecting Stephen Hawking's ground-breaking contributions to science and role as a science populariser.
We are delighted to share that Cameron R D Bunney has been awarded a prestigious EPSRC Doctoral Prize for the project First-generation accelerated detectors. This innovative project will explore the Unruh effect in superfluid helium-4 and realise the first Unruh-DeWitt detector, building upon the experimental proposal Third sound detectors in accelerated motion, which was recently published in the New Journal of Physics. The prize coincides with the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology as recognised by UNESCO and the UN, celebrating a century of quantum physics.
We are thrilled to announce that our project, Engagement via classical and quantum light waves, was accepted for funding by UKRI. Starting in early September, we will collaborate with researchers from Cardiff University to craft two unique kits for light interferometry.
The competition allows selected PhD and Post doctoral researchers from across the UK to showcase their work before a panel of leading researchers and members of the ERCOFTAC committee.
This £400k apparatus will soon be used as a new platform for exploring the dynamics of thin superfluid films.
In an article that has been published today in Nature, researchers from the University of Nottingham report on a novel experimental platform: a quantum tornado.
A team of specialists from Redbourn Express Services delivered and installed a brand-new optical table in our low temperature laboratory today. The table will soon support our newest experimental device, a closed-cycle cryostat from ICE Oxford capable of reaching temperatures as low as 300 mK. The set-up will be used to investigate wave dynamics in thin films of superfluid helium using ultra-sensitive optical methods currently under development in the very same lab. A team of specialists from Redbourn Express Services delivered and installed a brand-new optical table in our low temperature laboratory today. The table will soon support our newest experimental device, a closed-cycle cryostat from ICE Oxford capable of reaching temperatures as low as 300 mK. The set-up will be used to investigate wave dynamics in thin films of superfluid helium using ultra-sensitive optical methods currently under development in the very same lab.
Popular science magazine New Scientist is reporting on our recent results obtained in superfluid helium. In the article, Silke Weinfurtner and Patrik Svancara from the Gravity Laboratory are discussing how giant quantum vortices can be experimentally studied, and why they hold importance for the research of curved spacetime dynamics and particularly rotating black holes via analogue gravity.
Dr Patrik Svancara gave a talk for the UK Quantum Fluids Network summarising the most recent results obtained in the Quantum black hole simulator facility at the University of Nottingham. We thank the webinar's organisers for the invitation and we are looking forward for future exciting talks! Watch the recording of Patrik's talk on YouTube or read the supporting paper on arXiv.
We are getting ready for this year's UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase! Come meet us in London on 2 November 2023 with a brand-new design (picture) for our portable interfacial profile sensor for classical and quantum fluids.
We completed our first superfluid helium study.
Eureka! Scientists explore mysteries of black holes with hi-tech bathtub
The Sky at Night, a popular show on BBC, visits our laboratories to film an episode.
In an in-person meeting with ICEoxford in Witney, we approved the design of a new cryogen-free cryostat for the helium laboratory. This system is designed to reach temperatures as low as 300 mK and will allow us to study the dynamics of thin helium films.
The installation of a new TiS laser system at the Gravity Laboratory will enable ingenious research in analogue gravity. It is expected to be operational within the next few weeks, and researchers are eagerly anticipating the new opportunities that it will bring. The new laser promises to be a major asset to the laboratory, paving the way for new discoveries and breakthroughs in the years to come.
The 2022 National Quantum Technologies Programme (NQTP) Showcase features some of the UK’s most exciting projects from across the Quantum landscape.
Join us at an in-person event in London to hear about our exciting funding plans for the next two years
At the beginning of February 2023, our group attended the Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics Engagement Event.
Professor Carlo Barenghi (Newcastle University) is visiting our group on 26-27 January 2023. He will give a seminar talk titled Modelling superflows: the drain vortex on 27 January at 11 am in room C30 (Physics building). Everyone is welcome to attend!
Interview of our PI Prof. Silke Weinfurtner on Quanta Magazine, check it out!
The QTFP engagement event will highlight the progress of the awarded projects and explore further collaborations and opportunities, with speakers from across the QTFP programme.
On the 15th of December 2022 there will be the ArtLab opening. The event will take place in the department of Physics at the University of Nottingham, starting from 10.00am with refreshments in the ArtLab.
On the 16th of December 2022 there will be the ArtLab opening day 2. The event will take place in the department of Physics at the University of Nottingham, starting from 10.00am with refreshments in the ArtLab.
9th-13th January 2023, Robinson College, University of Cambridge and online. Register now at https://indico.cern.ch/event/1215570/
Organizers Jorma Louko, Silke Weinfurtner, and Cisco Gooding are pleased to announce a one-day "Measuring Temperatures and Harvesting with Unruh Detectors in the Lab" workshop in Nottingham during Bill Unruh's visit. Our approach is to bring theorists and experimentalists together to discuss a joint way forward towards Unruh detection from an analogue gravity system, with the focus on both ultra-cold atoms and superfluid helium systems.
QSimFP announced that the 1st QSimFP Annual Workshop will be held from 19th-21st September 2022 in London, at the Institute of Physics and at the Science Gallery London at King’s College London.
Join us at this in-person event open to all PGRs, academic and research staff from the Schools of Mathematical Sciences, Physics & Astronomy and the Faculty of Engineering.
QSimFP presented a novel interferometric detection method applied to fluid interfaces as the NQTP Showcase in London, 2021.
