Thursday, February 18, 2010

Exploiting entanglement for sensitive measurements

On Monday, Andrew Briggs from Oxford will be visiting UQ for the day. He will give a seminar about a recent Science paper from his group, Magnetic Field Sensing Beyond the Standard Quantum Limit Using 10-Spin NOON States.
Andrew was one of my hosts of a very nice sabbatical I had in Oxford back in 2004-2005, and I am looking forward to catching up with him. Four years ago our two families had a wonderful week sailing in the Whitsunday Islands...
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