African themes and martial combat in a new ballet3 December 2012In November, past and present University of Bristol students staged a full-scale ballet production – the first of its kind to be held in the city.
Mo Bros from CQP grow moustaches for Movember.30 November 2012Two PhD students from the Centre for Quantum Photonics suspended their facial-grooming routines this month to raise cash for Movember.
Jacques Carolan wins the Welsh regional final of FameLab29 November 2012Jacques Carolan, a PhD student in the Centre of Quantum Photonics, has won the Welsh regional final of an international science communication competition called FameLab.
Balazs L Gyorffy Memorial14 November 2012A memorial for Balazs Gyorffy, Emeritus Professor of Physics, will take place on Saturday 17 November 2012.
A new way to make glass8 November 2012Dr Paddy Royall and colleagues build on work by Professor Sir Charles Frank sixty years ago.
CQP in The Quantum Pontiff blog29 October 2012CQP's recently published paper, 'Experimental realisation of Shor's quantum factoring algorithm using qubit recycling', receives attention from the quantum blog, The Quantum Pontiff.
Professor Balazs Gyorffy26 October 2012With great sadness we report the death of Professor Balazs Gyorffy.
Particle physics: beyond the Higgs boson26 October 2012University of Bristol physicists have been awarded £5 million to search for new laws of nature at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Astronomers discover look-alike galaxies26 October 2012An international team of astronomers, including Professor Steve Phillipps from Bristol, has reported the discovery of two groups of galaxies with very similar properties to the local group containing our own Milky Way Galaxy.
Bristol hosts the 16th triennial International Conference on Positron Annihilation (ICPA-16)26 October 2012This summer saw the University of Bristol hold the 16th triennial International Conference on Positron Annihilation (ICPA-16) with attendance from over 200 people from 28 different countries. Bristol has a rich history in positron physics; Paul Dirac, who predicted the existence of the positron in 1928, lived here in his childhood and studied in Bristol as an undergraduate.
High temperature superconductors show new type of electronic order26 October 2012The results of a collaboration between Bristol's Stephen Hayden and colleagues based in Birmingham, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Vancouver, and Villigen were published in October by Nature Physics. The results show that high temperature superconductivity in layered cuprates can develop from an electronically ordered state called a charge density wave.
Quantum calculation sets new record.23 October 2012An article 'Recycled photons set fresh quantum computing record' has been published in the New Scientist following research published in Nature Photonics.
Quantum computing with recycled particles23 October 2012A research team from the University of Bristol’s Centre for Quantum Photonics (CQP) have brought the reality of a quantum computer one step closer by experimentally demonstrating a technique for significantly reducing the physical resources required for quantum factoring.
Vacancy for PhD studentship11 October 2012Applications are invited for a PhD studentship based at the University of Bristol's Interface Analysis Centre
Bristol researcher is strictly the best18 September 2012A research assistant at the University of Bristol’s Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information (NSQI) has won the British Science Association’s Strictly Engineering challenge.
Jeremy O'Brien delivers talk at the WEF's Annual Meeting of the New Champions13 September 2012Professor Jeremy O'Brien gave an invited talk on the future of information and communications technology (ICT) and the impact the quantum technologies revolution will have on the future of society and economics at the the WEF in China.
Research Associate (vacancy ref. 17508)11 September 2012Applications are invited for a 15 month EPSRC-funded post-doctoral position in the Schools of Physics and Chemistry at the University of Bristol (UK) starting from 1 November 2012 or as soon as possible thereafter. (vacancy ref. 17508)
CQP make headlines in the Daily Mail3 September 2012Professor Jeremy O'Brien and Dr Mark Thompson are featured in an article describing the possible applications of their breakthrough silicon quantum chip.
CQP make the headlines in the Financial Times3 September 2012Professor Jeremy O'Brien and Dr Mark Thompson appear in an article in the Financial Times prior to their appearance at the British Science Festival in Aberdeen.
Vacancy for Research Associate (vacancy ref. 17463)3 September 2012Applications are invited for a Research Assistant or Associate with the Particle Physics Group of the School of Physics to work on precision flavour physics at the LHCb experiment. (vacancy ref. 17463)
Vacancy for Research Manager (vacancy ref. 17440)3 September 2012Applications are invited for a three-year Research Manager position in the Centre for Quantum Photonics (CQP) of the School of Physics (vacancy ref. 17440)
A billion years of missing antimatter21 August 2012Dr Jonas Rademacker, Bristol’s particle physics group, has been awarded a €1.4M start-up grant to make precision measurements of the subtle differences between matter and anti-matter.
Vacancy for Research Assistant (vacancy ref. 17414)7 August 2012Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Quantum Dot Spin Physics for Experimental Quantum Information Science at the Centre for Quantum Photonics, School of Physics and Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering.
CQP student wins prize at prestigious conference3 August 2012Enrique Martin-Lopez, a PhD student in the Centre for Quantum Photonics, has taken third prize for his poster at the prestigious QCMC 2012 conference in Vienna.
