News items and recent publicatio

News items and recent postings:

Weak Values research featured at the FQXi: Foundational Questions Institute The Destiny of the Universe by Julie Rehmeyer

Contextual Values of Observables in Quantum Measurements with J. Dressel and S. Agarwal, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 240401 (2010)

Quantum measurement research with Prof. Howell's group featured in Discover Magazine. Back From the Future by Zeeya Merali

Quantum measurement research with Prof. Howell's group featured in Nature News and Views: Quantum measurement: A light touch Aephraim M. Steinberg reporting on: Optimizing the signal-to-noise ratio of a beam-deflection measurement with interferometric weak values Phys. Rev. A 80, 041803 (R) (2009) David J. Starling, P. Ben Dixon, Andrew N. Jordan, and John C. Howell

Funded by the NSF CAREER award - DMR-0844899 See also: U of R press release

Supported by the Army Research Office and DARPA

Ultrasensitive Beam Deflection Measurement via Interferometric Weak Value Amplification Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 173601 (2009) with P. Ben Dixon, David J. Starling, and John C. Howell Featured in PRL Viewpoints article: Physics 2, 32 (2009), Weak measurements just got stronger Sandu Popescu See also UR departmental news story: Weak value measurements by a strong duo

Uncollapse experiment and theory featured in Optics and Photonics Focus Asking twice, yet knowing nothing Armand Niederberger

Uncollapse experiment and theory discussed in Viewpoint commentary Undoing a quantum measurement Christoph Bruder and Daniel Loss, Physics 1, 34 (2008)

Quantum wavefunction uncollapse theory experimentally confirmed by the Martinis group at UCSB. Featured as top story in Nature News: Reincarnation can save Schrödinger's cat Physicists reverse quantum–classical transition. by Zeeya Merali

Quantum Undemolition Featured on the Cover of New Scientist magazine: Hello Kitty! Curiosity doesn't have to kill the quantum cat, just be careful how you open the box, Amanda Gefter See also the University of Rochester, Currents article.

Gravitational red-shift and deflection of slow light Phys. Rev. A 79, 013834 (2009) with J. Dressel, S.G. Rajeev and J.C. Howell

Entanglement genesis under continuous parity measurement Phys. Rev. A 78, 062322 (2008) with Nathan Williams

Threshold detection of rare current fluctuations with an over-screened Josephson junction Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 086806 (2009) with Eugene Sukhorukov

Gap theory of rectification in ballistic three-terminal conductors Phys. Rev. B 77, 075334 (2008) with Markus Buttiker

Entangled state preparation in nano-mechanical resonators Europhysics Letters, 82 (2008) 18003 with Kurt Jacobs and Elinor Irish

Weak values and the Leggett-Garg inequality Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026804 (2008) with Nathan Williams See also the departmental news story

Weak Measurement theory of quantum dot spin qubits Phys. Rev. B 76, 155324 (2007) with Björn Trauzettel and Guido Burkard

Quantum Dots and Single Electron Current Nature Physics 3, 243 (2007) with Eugene Sukhorukov and the ETH-experimental team UR Science Portal Story - Nanoscale Conductors: Predicting & Measuring Single-Electron Currents

Pole-Vaulting Superconductors Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 136803 (2007) with Eugene Sukhorukov See here for a popular summary.

Weak Values research featured at the FQXi: Foundational Questions Institute

The Destiny of the Universe

Contextual Values of Observables in Quantum Measurements

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 240401 (2010)

Quantum measurement: A light touch

Undoing a quantum measurement

Reincarnation can save Schrödinger's cat