Welcome to the Quantum Photonics Laboratory!
We are an experimental group at RMIT University’s School of Engineering. Our research spans from engineering photonic quantum information and communication technologies to studying quantum effects in biological, chemical and physical systems.
RECENT NEWS
Meeting of Italian Scientists Down Under
On 27-28 November 2014, the Italian Embassy held a meeting of researchers in the science and technology area, of Italian origin.
Press release, article on Australian Science, and program
Welcome to the new members of QPL
Today Robert Chapman starts his PhD on quantum photonics. He has awarded a very competitive University of Sydney’s International Postgraduate Research Scholarship. Congratulations Rob! Frank Paino joins our group as Honours student. David Merrick Long, Ryan Thomas and Tzu-Heng Hung (Alex) join QPL as part of the talented student program.
Welcome everyone!
Quantum variational algorithm published in Nature Communications
An international team of researchers from the Universities of Sydney, Bristol, Harvard and Haverford College have demonstrated a new quantum algorithm that dramatically reduces the requirements for quantum resources. Using a small-scale reconfigurable photonic quantum processor they successfully calculated some important molecular properties of the Helium Hydride molecule. In the future, much larger molecules will be studied using with only a few tens of qubits, in contract to the millions or billions of quantum bits required today.
This approach is likely to serve as the blueprint for quantum eigensolvers and could lead to the first practical quantum enhanced calculation long before previously anticipated.