New members joining the group
17 January 2011
Prof. Nicolas Godbout from Polytechnique Montréal (CA) joins the group for a 3 month visiting period and Giorgio Colangelo, previously at Università di Pisa (IT), starts his PhD in the atom lab.
Jun 2024 Cavity-enhanced detection of atomic spins
Apr 2024 Observation of anomalous noise spectra in the SERF regime
Mar 2024 Spread-spectrum magnetic signal detection with an atomic magnetometer
Feb 2024 New Doctor, Sven Bodenstedt
Feb 2024 New Student, Santiago Tabares
Sep 2023 Three new PhD students!
Jul 2023 New doctor, Chiara Mazzinghi
Jun 2023 New doctor, Natalia Alves
May 2023 ICFO + Quside provide quantum random number generator for ETHZ Bell test
Nov 2022 Quantum jump spectroscopy in PRResearch
Jul 2022 Thermometry with quantum phase transitions in Quantum
Jul 2022 Miniaturized magnetometer in PRApplied
Feb 2022 Magnetic sensitivity record in PNAS
Nov 2021 Squeezed-light magnetometer in PRL
Sep 2021 New doctor, Pau Gomez
Jul 2021 Non-classical interference in PRL
Feb 2021 Entanglement of 15 trillion atoms highlighted
Jan 2021 Device-independent randomness expansion based on a loophole-free Bell test
Oct 2020 Joanna Zielinska and Carlos Abellan win UPC Thesis Prize!
May 2020 Comagnetometer paper published in PRL
May 2020 SERF-Singlet paper published in Nature Comms.
2020
New people: Stuti Gugnani, Fraser Hill-Casey, Laura Zarraoa
Oct 2019
New postdoc: Gianvito Lucivero
Oct 2019
New student: Enes Aybar
July 2019
New postdoc: Daniel Benedicto
Jan 2019
New student: Sven Bodenstedt
Oct 2018
New student: Natalia Alves
Sep 2018
New doctor: Simon Coop
May 2018
The BIG Bell Test: 13 experiments, 100,000 volunteers. Results in Nature
Mar 2018
New doctor: Joanna Zielinska
Feb 2018
Multi-second magnetic coherence in a BEC
Jan 2018
Spin tracking in PRL
Dec 2017
New doctor: Ferran Martin
July 2017
New doctor: Silvana Palacios
Mar 2017
Evading the uncertainty principle in Nature
Dec 2016
New doctor: Giorgio Colangelo
Oct 2016
New doctor: Gianvito Lucivero
July 2016
Spinor condensate !
May 2015
Ehrenfest Award for Morgan Mitchell
May 2016
New low-noise detector in Optics Letters
May 2016
Squeezed-light spin-noise spectroscopy
December 2015
Three articles in PRL special issue on loophole-free Bell tests
November 2015
QND measurement for Leggett-Garg tests in PRL
October 2015
Nature article on loophole-free Bell tests
April 2015
New doctor: Naeimeh Behbood
March 2015
Macroscopic quantum state analyzed particle-by-particle (PRL)
Highlight in Science News
January 2015
New doctor: Yannick Alan de Icaza Astiz
August 2014
Macroscopic singlet state in PRL (highlight in Scientific American)
July 2014
Distinguished visitor, Ferran Adrià
June 2014
Ultra-sensitive spin measurements in PRX (highlight in Science)
March 2014
Distinguished visitor, Steven Chu
Jan 2014
Record speed in quantum randomness
May 2013
Quantum non-demolition measurement of a macroscopic material system
Jan 2013
Article on ultra-gentle measurements described in El Pais and in Nature Photonics
Dec 2012
Sensitivity beyond the projection-noise limit by spin squeezing
May 2012
Vanguard of Science award for quantum metrology work.
May 2012
PRL article on non-gaussian state experiment.
May 2012
Thomas Vanderbruggen joins the group as a post-doc.
March 2012
Group presents six (!) talks at QIM meeting in Berlin.
March 2012
Joanna Zielniska joins the group as a Master student.
January 2012
Ferran Martin joins the group as a PhD student.
December 2011
Physics Today has published a popular article describing our recent nonlinear metrology experiment.
December 2011
Gianvito Lucivero joins the group as a PhD student.
1 October 2011
Morgan becomes ICREA professor of Quantum Optics.
21 September 2011
Silvana Palacios joins the group as a Master student.
18 September 2011
Group awarded ERC Starting Grant !
10 July 2011
Pau and Joanna,join the group as summer students.
3 May 2011
Florian and Rob presenting at CLEO US and, almost simultaneously, Mario at ICSSUR.
10 April 2011
The popular blog 2Physics.com has published an entry about the experiment on nonlinear metrology. More press about the experiment here.
24 March 2011
Super-Heisenberg sensitivity scaling: Nature has published our experiment about interaction-based quantum metrology
15 February 2011
Magnetic-field imaging: Our hi-res imaging technique has been published in Applied Physics Letters
1 February 2011
Single Photons by Interaction-Free Measurement: The work about the atomic filter for single photons has been published in PRL
17 January 2011
New group members:
Nicolas Godbout and Giorgio Colangelo
14 January 2011
Ensemble-Fest:
a workshop on recent developments in atomic ensembles
13 January 2011
Phd Defense:
Marco Koschorreck
14 December 2010
Distinguished Visitors:
Alfredo Rubalcaba, Cristina Garmendia
28 October 2010
Distinguished Visitor:
Artur Mas
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James C. Maxwell
James C. Maxwell