Home Page for Howard Wiseman
Professor and Federation Fellow at Griffith University,
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science,
Director, Centre for Quantum Dynamics.
Address:
Prof. H. M. Wiseman
Centre
for Quantum Dynamics
Griffith
University
Brisbane Queensland 4111
AUSTRALIA
Email: H.Wiseman@griffith.edu.au
Ph. 61-7-3735 7271
Fax 61-7-3735 4426
Downloads/Links:
List of Publications with Citations:
Download CV(November
09)
Download Ph.D. Thesis
(PhDThesis.ps.z)
Links on this Page:
Theory Group
Photo
Theory Group News
Centre for
Quantum Computer Technology
Federation Fellowship:
Theory Program and
Experimental Laboratories
Positions
Available
Links to other Pages on my Site:
Themes in my Research in
Physics
Students and
Collaborators
My
academic pedigree
Hobby: History
(especially dark-age Britain)
Family and
other interests.
Theory Group Photo
The Theory Group in the Centre
for
Quantum Dynamics, shown here in July 2007.
Back row: Jay Gambetta (research fellow), Andy Chia (Ph.D.), Josh
Combes
(Ph.D.)
Next row: Steve Jones (Ph.D), Byron Booth (Hons), Dominique Moeseneder
(Hons), Andrew Scott (research fellow), Ahsan
Nazir (research fellow),
Front row: Joan
Vaccaro (researcher/Senior Lecturer), David Pegg (Professor),
me,
Anushya Chandran (visiting student), He-Bi Sun
(researcher/Lecturer)
missing: Graham White (M.Sc).
Click here
to see previous group
photos.
Theory Group News
2009
December
Paper
accepted as a Rapid Comm. in
Phys. Rev. A "Replacing quantum feedback with open-loop control and quantum filtering" by Josh Combes, me and Andrew Scott.
(arXiv:0908.0198)
November
Quantum Measurement and
Control by Wiseman
and Milburn now published by Cambridge
University Press.
Please visit the authors' website www.quantum-measurement-and-control.org (enables user contributions of errata etc.)
We welcome a new Ph.D. student, David Evans from UQ.
Paper
accepted to
Phys. Rev.
Lett. "Mixed state discrimination using optimal control"
(arXiv:0909.1572)
October
David Pegg has been appointed Professor Emeritus of the University.
September
We say farewell to Dr Andrew Scott, and welcome a new postdoc in CQCT, Dr Raisa Karasik from Berkeley.
July
Grant success:
Dr Austin Lund has been awarded a Griffith University postdoctoral
fellowship.
February
We welcome a new postdoc, Dr Samuel Colin from PI, funded by PIAF, the Perimeter Institute Australia
Foundations Partnership.
January
Text-book Quantum Measurement and
Control (Wiseman
and Milburn)
delivered to Cambridge
University Press, nine years after submitting the synopsis!
2008
October
ARC
Grant success:
1. Discovery Project: Geoff Pryde (GU), Steve Bartlett (USyd), Andrew
Doherty (UQ) and me: "Quantum limits in measurement and communication"
2. Postdoctoral Fellowship: Eric Cavalcanti: "Quantum Steering,
Nonlocality, and Foundations"
September
Paper
accepted to
Phys. Rev.
Lett. by me and Jay
Gambetta,
"Pure-state quantum trajectories for general
non-Markovian systems do not exist"
(arXiv:0806.3101)
Back from long service leave!
August
Steve Jones has sumbited his Ph.D. thesis.
June
We welcome a new postdoc, Dr Austin Lund from
UQ. I'm
going on long-service leave!
March
I
have been elected
as FAA (Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science).
Paper accepted to
Phys. Rev.
Lett. by Josh Combes,
me, and Kurt
Jacobs, "Rapid Measurement of Quantum Systems using Feedback Control" (arXiv:0712.3620)
EARLIER THEORY GROUP NEWS
The Centre for
Quantum Computer
Technology
was established as an Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence
in 2003. It has research programs at six Australian Universities: New
South Wales, Melbourne, Queensland,
Macquarie,
Griffith, and Sydney, and also ADFA. Its primary aims are to build
prototype quantum computers in Silicon (UNSW/UM), and in optics
(UQ/GU/ADFA). It also has several other research directions,
experimental
and theoretical.
Griffith University hosts two programs, a Theory Program
headed by me,
and an Experimental
Quantum Optics
Program headed by Dr. Geoff Pryde.
The Theory Program is Resources for Quantum
Information Processing. It supports wide-ranging theoretical research
in
quantum measurement, control and information. It currently comprises me (Program
Manager), Dr. Joan Vaccaro, Dr. He-Bi Sun, Dr. Austin Lund, Dr. Raisa Karasik, plus
students. For more
information on the program, see the Program Page
on
the CQCT website.
Federation
Fellowship Program: Quantum
Information, Measurement, and Control.
Since the beginning of 2005 I have held a Federation
Fellowship from the Australian Research Council for my
research
Program Quantum
Information,
Measurement, and Control.
As well as supporting wide-ranging theoretical research in this area,
the Griffith contribution to my Program funds a trapped ion laboratory
for
experiments in the area of quantum information, measurement, and
control. This is part of the laboratory of
Dr. Dave
Kielpinski.
Griffith University also hosts and funds another, related, experimental
program: the quantum optics laboratory
of Dr. Geoff Pryde.
Positions
Available
At the moment I am not
in a
position to offer postdoctoral
positions. However,
the Australian
Research council and
Griffith University both offer 3-year research positions.
If you are
interested please contact me, after consulting http://www.griffith.edu.au/or/grants/content_grants.html
New PhD
students interested in studying in my group are welcome.
However, overseas students should be aware that in Australia the
financial
situation is not the same as in the US for example. Students from
Australia or New Zealand usually get a scholarship which covers tuition
fees and living expenses. It is harder for overseas students to get
such scholarships. For details please contact: the Postgraduate
Scholarships officer,