Physics Research News
Fermi-type acceleration of interstellar ions driven by high-energy lepton plasma flows
In a recent paper it is found that Stochastic acceleration and shock acceleration can occur naturally in sequential two stages when a lepton flow propagates in a background interstellar plasma.
December 2015
Visiting Professor John Pickup receives Honorary Degree
Photophysics Visiting Professor John Pickup receives a Honorary DSc from our Principal Jim MacDonald at the November Graduation Ceremony.
November 2015
Hilbert's Hotel takes a quantum twist
An optical experiment realizes one of the room-changing operations in the Hilbert Hotel—a fictitious establishment that illustrates some perplexing properties of infinity.
19th October 2015
Diffraction-controlled laser-driven proton acceleration
The electron bunches were produced by focusing a high-power laser pulse into a supersonic helium gas jet. These ‘bullets’ of charged particles have a length that is one 300th of the breadth of a hair and travel at a speed close to that of light. They are also 10 times shorter than those produced from conventional accelerators.
12th October 2015
EPSRC Quantum Technology Fellowship: Hybrid Quantum Interface
Jonathan Pritchard has become one of just 10 academics in the UK to secure a prestigious fellowship worth almost £1 million for the development of hybrid quantum technologies.
29th September 2015
Research boost for future fusion reactor
The EU Funded 4-year project ADAS-EU has helped researchers understand key behaviour of hydrogen in high temperature plasmas found in fusion reactors. The project was co-ordinated by emeritus professor Hugh Summers.
15th September 2015
Next generation High Power Lasers
Researchers at the University of Strathclyde are developing groundbreaking plasma based light amplifiers that could replace traditional high power laser amplifiers.
21 August 2015
From quantum to classical
Strathclyde researcher shows that classical observations of quantum systems are a fundamental part of quantum mechanics – no assumptions necessary.
13 August 2015
Quantum particles put under the microscope
Researchers at the Department of Physics have achieved imaging of individual fermionic atoms in an optical lattice. Such an optical lattice is made of interfering laser beams, creating an “artificial crystal of light” in which atoms can be held like marbles in the hollows of an egg carton.
13th July 2015
High Power Terahertz Radiation from Laser Plasma
Recently, Zheng-Ming Sheng and co-workers from China, USA, and Japan have demonstrated to produce such a kind of THz sources via a mechanism called linear mode conversion, in which electromagnetic waves are converted from electrostatic waves excited in plasma.
24th June 2015
Optomechanical Self-Structuring in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
A team of researchers from the Department's Optics division have recently published a paper on Optomechanical Self-Structuring in a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) in Physical Review Letters.
27th May 2015
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships
Congratulations to both Marco Piani and Bruno Peaudecerf who were awarded prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships.
21st May 2015
Lossless Loss at the Quantum Level
John Jeffers and co-workers at Heriot-Watt, Singapore, Southampton and Troyes have performed an experiment that confirms a theoretical prediction made by John Jeffers in the Journal of Modern Optics way back in 2000.
21st May 2015
Keynote at EAP2015
David Birch was a Keynote Speaker at the Emerging Analytical Professionals conference held in Bristol on May 8th-10th 2015.
21st May 2015
SUPA Knowledge Exchange Fellowship
Congratulations to Philip Yip for being awarded a SUPA INSPIRE knowledge exchange fellowship for a secondment to Horiba Jobin Yvon IBH Ltd.
20th May 2015
Culham thesis prize winner - Dr David Maclellan
Dr David MacLellan has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Culham Thesis Prize for 2015.
4th April 2015
Breakthrough in Particle Control creates Special Half-vortex Rotation
A breakthrough in the control of a type of particle known as the polariton has created a highly specialised form of rotation. Professor Andrew Daley was part of the research team from the Universities of Strathclyde and Pittsburgh, and Princeton University, who conducted a test in which they were able to arrange the particles into a ‘ring geometry’ form in a solid-state environment. The result was a half-vortex in a ‘quantised rotation’ form.
March 2015
Rapid-Fire Amplification beyond the Quantum Limit but without Quantum Resources
John Jeffers and recent CNQO PhD graduate Electra Eleftheriadou have recently published a paper on the State Comparison Amplifier in Physical Review Letters.
31st March 2015
Strathclyde physicist joins Scotland’s National Academy
The Department is pleased to congratulate Professor Dino Jaroszynski on his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
6th March 2015
Noted Publications of 2014
Strathclyde Physics has been recognized for papers published in 2014.
2nd March 2015
Discriminatory optical force for chiral molecules
In a recent paper in New Journal of Physics, Robert Cameron, Stephen Barnett and Alison Yao demonstrated that readily producible types of light can be employed to exert a force that accelerates chiral molecules in opposite directions.
27th February 2015
“Spooky action at a distance” key in telling physical processes apart
In their paper, Necessary and sufficient quantum information characterization of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering, published in Physical Review Letters, Dr Marco Piani of the Department of Physics and Prof John Watrous, at University of Waterloo, break new ground in the study of the usefulness of quantum steering.
14th February 2015
APS Outstanding Referee
John Jeffers has been elected as an Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society.
5th February 2015
Optics in 2014
A joint contribution between Strathclyde Physics and the Institut Non Linéaire (INLN) in Nice on Optomechanical self-structuring of cold atoms has been highlighted as the most exciting peer-reviewed optics research to have emerged over the past 12 months in Optics & Photonics News, published by the Optical Society of America.
15th January 2015