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	Optical entanglement of co-propagating modes 23 June 2009 The Quantum Imaging team of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics (ACQAO) at the Australian National University has recently produced entanglement of two co-propagating spatial modes within one laser beam. The results have been published in the journal Nature Photonics. Read more...
	Atom chip fabrication with fs-laser ablation 9 June 2009 The Swinburne University Atom Optics group recently demonstrated the fabrication of microwires using a pulsed femtosecond laser to ablate insulating grooves in an atom chip. The laser is focussed to a submicron spot and the chip is translated by computer control drawing insulating grooves like a microscopic etch-a-sketch. To fabricate an atom chip typically takes only a few hours and is essentially a single step process. Read more...
	Bose Einstein Condensation of Rubidium 85 26 May 2009 The Australian National University Atom Laser Group has recently produced a BEC of ⁸⁵Rb. A broad, low field Feshbach resonance allows the ability to tune the interactions of atoms in the condensate from attractive to zero to repulsive. The group intends to pursue experiments with interaction free atom lasers and analog systems such as the 'Bosenova'. Read more
	The neutron star on your table-top 30 April 2009 Swinburne University theorists Xiaji Liu, Peter Drummond and Hui Hu have developed a new path to investigating the inner world of neutron starts. Their novel approach uses exact solutions to the quantum theory of three bodies interacting very strongly. The results help explain the physics which holds inside a neutron star or for ultra-cold atoms.
	Quantum Mechanical 'Hurricanes' 9 March 2009 ACQAO scientists at the University of Queensland, Dr Matt Davis and Ashton Bradley, together with their colleagues at the University of Arizona have discovered that when an ultracold gas of atoms gets cold enough, it can spontaneously spin up into what might be described as quantum mechanical twisters or hurricanes. The Queensland and Arizona researchers are reporting the results of theresearch in the journal Nature.
	Bragg Spectroscopy of a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas 13 Feb 2009 ACQAO researchers Gopi Veeravalli, Eva Kuhnle, Paul Dyke and Chris Vale at Swinburne University of Technology’s Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy (CAOUS) have recently performed the first study of pairing in ultra cold Fermi gases using Bragg spectroscopy.
	Prof. Alain Aspect awarded the 2008 Honorary Doctorate of the Australian National University 10 December 2008 Professor Alain Aspect, a pioneer of quantum optics, was the recipient of the 2008 Honorary Doctorate of the Australian National University. Come see his public lecture 'Exploring the quantum side of light' at John Curtin School of Medical Research (Finkel theatre) on Saturday 13th.
	Turning on the atom tap 3 October 2008 The atom laser team of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics (ACQAO) at the Australian National University has recently produced a pumped atom laser. The results have been published in nature physics.
	Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) Congress 2008 29 september 2008 ACQAO has secured a Gold sponsorship package for the upcoming AIP Congress in Adelaide. As a Gold sponsor ACQAO will be prominently displayed in the activities and printed material.
	Entangling the Spatial Properties of Laser Beams 22 August 2008 ACQAO scientists have demonstrated a quantum link between two atom laser beams. An experiment at the ANU, with contributions from Australia, Denmark and France has demonstrated that two laser beams can be linked in their position and direction better than the limit by the quantum uncertainty principle.
	Workshop Announced: Quantum Atom Optics Beyond Bells 24 May 2008 This meeting is devoted to recent advances in quantum optics and ultracold quantum gases, both experimental and theoretical. It will be held in Lorne on Victoria's surf coast, not far from the world-renowned surf beach of Bells Beach, and Great Ocean Road. It is timed to precede the Austrailan Institute of Physics Congress in Adelaide.
	New Chief Operations Officer at ACQAO 24 May 2008 Damien Hughes is the new COO of ACQAO. He took over from our energetic Ruth Wilson and is already in full flight coordinating the finances and day to day management of ACQAO. He gained detailed experience in the University Finance system, but also in private enterprise and public service. He is a great event organiser and brings much enthusiasm, energy and style to the job. All at ACQAO will benefit greatly from his work.
	Does distance make the heart grow fonder? 27 April 2008 Theorists Andrew Sykes, Matt Davis and Karen Kheruntsyan of the University of Queensland alongside Dimitri Gangardt from the University of Birmingham have generated a finite temperature phase diagram of the second-order correlation function, in a system of interacting bosons confined to move in one spatial dimension.
	Stephanie Golding awarded UQ General Staff Prize 2008 27 April 2008 As well as being a very able administrator for the UQ node, Stephanie Golding has also been studying the classics and last year completed her degree. Not only that, but she has now been awarded the 2008 UQ General Staff Prize - for the general staff member with the best results throughout their degree.
	Universal Dipolar Scattering 11 April 2008 Dr. Christopher Ticknor at the Swinburne node of ACQAO, has studied the scattering properties of ultracold polar molecules in the presence of an external electric field and found that all dipolar systems have the same scattering behavior, irrespective of the details of the scatterers.
	Thermal quantum physics in Lineland 9 March 2008 A team of researchers from the Netherlands and Australia has succeeded in comparing the temperature and the density of a one-dimensional quantum gas to an exact theory that was developed back in 1969 by C. N. Yang and C. P. Yang.
	Dr Murray Olsen is elected an APS Outstanding Referee 18 February 2008 The editors of the APS journals have chosen ACQAO research fellow Murray Olsen as one of the inaugural group of 534 Outstanding Referees. They intend to choose an additional 130 or so referees each subsequent year for this lifetime award.
	Wollongong workshop celebrates scientific achievements of ACQAO 6 December 2007 This week an international group of researchers discuss the latest results in quantum-atom optics in Wollongong. This very informative science event celebrates the achievements of ACQAO during the first five years.
	Dr Margaret Reid has been elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America 27 November 2007 Dr Margaret Reid has been elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America for: `developing ways to test the fundamental concepts of nonlocality, squeezing, Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradoxes, entanglement and macroscopic superpositions in quantum optical systems'.
	Prof. Peter Drummond awarded the Moyal Medal and Lecturer for 2007 22 October 2007 Professor Peter Drummond has been awarded the Moyal Medal and Lecturer for 2007 for his distinguished contributions to physics. Macquarie University has established a Medal and a Lecture Series in honour of Professor Joe Moyal. The lectures are given annually at Macquarie University by the Medallist.
	Dr. Ken Baldwin wins W. H. (Beattie) Steel Medal 17 October 2007 For scientific contributions to atom optics and laser spectroscopy, and for enhancing Australian optics nationally and internationally through professional scientific leadership, Dr. Ken Baldwin, Deputy Director of ACQAO, was awarded the W. H. (Beattie) Steel Medal of the Australia Optical Society, the Society's highest academic award.
	ACQAO members successful in the ARC grants 26 September 2007 Congratulations to ACAQO members J. D. Close, N. P. Robins, H. A. Bachor, B. C. Buchler, P. Lam, P. Hannaford, A. Sidorov, B. V. Hall, and C. Vale, for the successful LIEF grant, to P. D. Drummond, Q. He, and J. N. Hedditch (ARC APF/APD/Discovery grant), and to C. Ticknor (ARC APD)!
	Dr. Matthew Davis wins UQ Foundation Excellence Award 19 September 2007 Dr Matthew Davis, from the University of Queensland ACQAO Theory Node, has been awarded $60,000 to investigate Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC), to further understand the nature of the universe. His particular interest is how BECs, and especially quantum whirlpools called vortices, form. Congratulations Matthew! Read more...
	Teaching physics using virtual reality 18 September 2007 Congratulations to an ACQAO member Dr Craig Savage who has been awarded a Carrik Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education award for the project ‘Teaching Physics using virtual reality’.
	Squeezing and Entangling a laser pointer: ACQAO paper wins EOS prize 5 September 2007 EOS Rapid Publ. Vol 1, 06003 (2006) by M. Lassen, V. Delaubert, C.C. Harb, P.K. Lam, N. Treps and H. A. Bachor was selected as the best publication in an EOS journal in 2006.
	Strongly Interacting Polarized Fermi Gases 20 July 2007 UQ ACQAO theory group explores the phase diagram, vortex bound states and thermodynamic properties of imbalanced Fermi gases near the broad Feshbach resonance.
	Teleportation of Massive Particles 13 June 2007 Theorists from the UQ (Ashton Bradley, Simon Haine, Murray Olsen) and ANU Faculties (Joseph Hope) nodes of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics (ACQAO) have come up with a scheme to teleport quantum states of collections of atoms from one position to another by converting the quantum state to light and back again. This work has been highlighted in a recent article in New Scientist.
	Universal Behavior in Strongly Interacting Fermions 6 June 2007 In a recent Nature Physics article theorists at the University of Queensland Centre for Quantum-Atom Optics in Australia (Xia-Ji Liu & Peter D. Drummond) and at Renmin University of China in Beijing (Hui Hu) have uncovered universal behavior in strongly interacting fermions.
	Molecular Bose-Einstein Condensate at Swinburne June 2007 The Molecular BEC team in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics (ACQAO) at Swinburne University have realised a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate (MBEC) of bosonic ⁶Li₂ molecules formed from fermionic ⁶Li atoms, as well as a degenerate Fermi gas of ⁶Li atoms.
	PUBLIC LECTURE: Photons – quantum ideas that could influence your life (Wed 6 June 2007) 23rd May 2007 About 100 years ago the new idea of photons and quantisation of energy revolutionized physics and throughout the 20th century led to a remarkable expansion of our technology. This talk traces the history of the photon and some of the new ideas that are currently explored in research labs in Australia and around the world.
	Atom chip in Highlights 2006 of Journal of Physics B 7th March 2007 The Journal of Physics B has selected the paper “A permanent magnetic film atom chip for Bose-Einstein condensation” by B.V. Hall, S. Whitlock, F. Scharnberg, P. Hannaford and A. Sidorov (ACQAO node at Swinburne University of Technology) as one of the highlights of 2006.
	Workshop: Quantum-Atom Optics at Wollongong 1st March 2007 In conjunction with the International Student Summer School on Quantum-Atom Optics, Kioloa November 28. This will be the first conference devoted to the overlap of Quantum and Atom Optics - providing new fundamental insights and experimental realizations of concepts common to both fields.
	Quantum Sensor of Asymmetric Potentials 17th January 2007 The team at Swinburne University of Technology (Brenton Hall, Shannon Whitlock, Russell Anderson, Peter Hannaford and Andrei Sidorov) have produced a sensor based upon the use of Bose condensed rubidium atoms on an atom chip for measuring extremely small potential gradients.
	Workshop: International Workshop on Quantum Noise 2007 Posted: 6 January 2007 14-18 May 2007 at Grand Pacific Resort, Caloundra, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. This workshop will cover hot topics in quantum optics and ultracold quantum gases, from both theory and experiment.
	Workshop: Quantum Engineering based on Atoms and Photons Posted: 6 January 2007 February 26th - March 2nd, 2007 Hannover, Germany. This workshop will be organized by the Sonderforschungsbereich 407, ACQAO and the Institut Francilien de recherche sur les atomes froids.
	ACQAO student awarded University Medal 19 December 2006 ACQAO student David Barry has been awarded a University medal for outstanding marks in his Mathematics course.
	Magnetic Domain Labyrinth 1 December 2006 The ACQAO team at Swinburne University of Technology has recently developed and used multi-layered TbGdFeCo magnetic films for Bose-Einstein condensation of rubidium atoms on an atom chip.
	Many-body quantum effects of ultracold atoms 24 November 2006 The theory group at the Australian National University explores the subtle many-body quantum effects in the systems of ultracold atoms to determine the ways for their control.
	Prof Yuri Kivshar has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society 24 November 2006 “For creative, stimulating, and seminal contributions to nonlinear optics, the physics of optical solitons, and the theory of nonlinear localised modes.”
	Dr. Ken Baldwin has been elected as President of FASTS 24 November 2006 Dr. Ken Baldwin, Deputy Director of ACQAO, has been elected as President of FASTS (Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies) for the period 2008 - 2010. More on FASTS at fasts.org.
	Doctor John Close Receives Teaching Award 15 November 2006 The Carrick Institute has recognised Dr. John Close with a prestigious award for his contributions to the integration of undergraduate students into the research environment within ACQAO.
	Australia's first metastable helium BEC 10 November 2006 ACQAO scientists at the ANU have recently become one of only four groups in the world to create a Bose-Einstein condensate of metastable helium atoms.
	UQ-ACQAO Student awarded Marie Curie Fellowship 16 September 2006 Ex UQ-ACQAO student, Piotr Deuar, has been awarded the European Marie Curie Fellowship. His new position is at the Universite de Paris Sud, with eminent theorist Gora Shlyapnikov, working on ultra-cold atoms.
	Ping Koy Lam wins Eureka prize 23 August 2006 Congratulations to Ping Koy Lam for receiving the University of New South Wales Eureka Prize for Scientific Research for his part in working to commoditize quantum encryption.
	Honouring Roy Glauber 4 July 2006 Professor Peter Drummond gives the keynote address for a festive symposium honouring the 2005 Nobel laureate, Roy Glauber.
	Extension of Einstein's work 20 December 2005 An ACQAO research team has celebrated the end of the Einstein International Year of Physics by developing a new theory based on work originated by the great scientist.
	Yuri Kivshar awarded the 2005 BOAS Medal 4 December 2005 Congratulations to Yuri Kivshar who was awarded the 2005 AIP BOAS Medal for his outstanding contributions to non-linear optics.
	Ultracold quantum gas 22 August 2005 Researchers at Swinburne University have successfully created a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) on a new type of "atom chip" constructed from permanent magnetic film.
	European–Australian Workshop on Quantum-Atom Optics 21 August 2005 Australian National University Canberra and Kioloa, 5–12 February 2006. This will be the third workshop in Quantum-Atom Optics which brings together students and researchers from the SFB Hannover, France and Australia. Workshop Program (PDF 37KB)
	The New Zealand and Australian Quantum-Atom Optics Workshop 15 June 2005 Venue: Queenstown, New Zealand, 29 Nov - 1 Dec, 2005. This international meeting, a satellite to ACOLS'05, will feature prominent international and local speakers.
	Quantum dynamics: Reverse for simulation 22 April 2005 Research Highlights section in Nature [Nature 434, 972 (2005)] comments on recent work at ACQAO published in the Physical Review Letters by M. Dowling et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 130401 (2005).
	ACQAO members receive ARC Centre Fellowships 19 March 2005 Congratulations to Dr Karen Kheruntsyan and Dr Joseph Hope who have been awarded ARC Centre Fellowships for their research achievements and publications.
	The SUT team observes their first BEC on a chip 15 March 2005 We are happy to report our first observation of Bose-Einstein condendation achieved using an atom chip constructed at Swinburne University of Technology.
	2004 Bragg Medal awarded to Warwick Bowen 1 March 2005 Congratulations to Warwick Bowen -- the recipient of the 2004 Bragg Medal by the AIP for the best PhD thesis in Physics in 2004.
	Dell super-computer arrives at ACQAO 28 February 2005 Dell Australia today announced the deployment of a 72 processor supercomputer at the University of Queensland's ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics (ACQAO) research facility.
	2004 Massey Medal awarded to Peter Drummond 22 December 2004 The 2004 Massey Medal, a joint AIP-IOP prize, has been awarded to Professor Peter Drummond of the University of Queensland for his work on many-body theories and quantum optics.
	The Weeekend Australian on Cold Atoms (PDF 894kB) 29 November 2004 An ultra-cool wave is sweeping across quantum physics, reports Leigh Dayton in The Weekend Australian, 27-Nov-2004.
	Launch of the book "Quantum Squeezing" 15 November 2004 The book "Quantum Squeezing" (Eds. Peter Drummond and Z. Ficek) will be launched on Monday 22 November 2004, at 4:00pm in the Conference Room 237, Physics Annexe, Department of Physics, University of Queensland.
	ACQAO Deputy Director Wins the Eureka Prize 12 August 2004 Dr Ken Baldwin has won the 2004 Australian Government Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science for initiating and championing the annual FASTS' "Science meets Parliament".
	Quantum Optics - What is it? 19 July 2004 The first edition of the book "A Guide to Experiments in Quantum Optics" sold out quickly around the world. The Australian authors, Professor Hans-A Bachor and Associate Professor Timothy C Ralph, have written a second, enlarged edition to keep pace with the rapid development and interest in this field.
	Nobel Prize-winner confirms UQ physics theory 17 May 2004 The Nobel Prize winning research group of Professor Bill Phillips at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), this week published an experimental confirmation of a recent theoretical prediction of Dr Karen Kheruntsyan and Professor Peter Drummond.
	Australia's first atom laser developed at ANU 7 April 2004 ANU researchers have developed Australia's first atom laser, consisting of a single beam of atoms of the coldest material in the Universe.
	ACQAO Congratulates Thomas Hanna - Sir John Monash Award winner 12 December 2003 Thomas Hanna has been working with Dr. Andrew Truscott in the He* BEC project at the ANU Node of the Centre and was one of eight recipients of the prestigious General Sir John Monash Award this week.
	Particle-like Solitons at Absolute Zero 25 July 2003 Quantum physicists Craig Savage and Janne Ruostekoski from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics, Australian National University, and the University of Hertfordshire, UK, study Skyrmions in dilute gas Bose-Einstein condensates.
	CDs - DVDs - What's next? 23 August 2003 As technology improves, it becomes easier to store more information - but is there a limit to it? The quantum laser pointer will show a way to break these limits using quantum effects.
	2003 Eureka Prizes for Science 19 August 03 British Council Eureka Prize For Inspiring Science Winners: Mr Warwick Bowen and Dr Ping Koy Lam, Australian National University. Education, Science and Training Eureka Prize for the Promotion of Science Finalist: Dr Kenneth Baldwin, Australian National University.
	Love and Hate Between Atoms on a Wire 24 July 2003 Atomic correlations are like human relations. Now we can tell exactly how much 'like' or 'dislike' atoms have for each other when confined to a wire-like waveguide at ultra-low temperatures.
	A discovery to change the world -- if we only knew how 24 July 2003 Sydney Morning Herald article (415kB) Full-size image (128kB)
	Researchers take a quantum leap forward in new lab 24 July 2003 Canberra Times article (415kB) Full-size image (128kB)
	New Centre Set to Unlock Secrets of the Atom Laser 23 July 2003 The new ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics (ACQAO) will be opened on Wednesday, July 23 at 10.15am, and promises to set Australia at the forefront of laser technology.