{"id":22,"date":"2019-11-12T16:05:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T16:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/lewisclark\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2019-11-12T16:35:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T16:35:28","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/lewisclark\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Hot electron quantum optics<\/h1>\n<p>Quantum dot charge pumps enable electrons to be injected into quantum Hall edge channels at high energy, well above the Fermi sea .\u00a0 Using these electrons, it is possible to realise optics-like experiments.\u00a0 The use of electrons allows us to study different physics than what is available with photons in standard optics.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding how these particles behave is hence critical to enable us to build real devices.\u00a0 Unlike photons, electrons interact with their environment and are subject to relaxation and decoherence as they travel.\u00a0 I am currently involved in research studying such mechanisms, including phonon emission and electron-electron interactions, in particular with applications to electron interferometry.\u00a0 This work is in support of experiments being conducted at the NPL.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 45%;padding: 0 10px 0 0;float: left\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23\" src=\"http:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/lewisclark\/files\/2019\/11\/disp_basic-300x258.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/lewisclark\/files\/2019\/11\/disp_basic-300x258.png 300w, https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/lewisclark\/files\/2019\/11\/disp_basic.png 431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 45%;padding: 0 10px 0 0;float: right\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24\" src=\"http:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/lewisclark\/files\/2019\/11\/NPL_logo-300x111.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/lewisclark\/files\/2019\/11\/NPL_logo-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/lewisclark\/files\/2019\/11\/NPL_logo.png 354w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both\"><\/div>\n<h1>Quantum metrology without entanglement<\/h1>\n<p>The use of quantum physics enables us to probe nature on a deeper level with a given number of resources available through using phenomena such as entanglement.\u00a0 Typically though, it is difficult to realise such schemes due to the difficulty in creating and maintaining the coherence of such states for more than a handful of these resources.<\/p>\n<p>An alternative method of obtaining quantum enhancements that I have worked on involves monitoring the temporal correlations present in open quantum systems.\u00a0 Monitoring the statistics of the bath of such systems, while using tools such as quantum feedback, it is possible to obtain quantum-enhanced sensitivity of an unknown parameter (&#8220;Quantum Jump Metrology&#8221;). \u00a0 I am currently working on understanding how these enhancements can be generated and then how they can be applied to physical systems, with potential applications including cavity networks and Hidden Quantum Markov Models.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-31\" src=\"http:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/lewisclark\/files\/2019\/11\/general3-1024x539.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/lewisclark\/files\/2019\/11\/general3-1024x539.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/lewisclark\/files\/2019\/11\/general3-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/lewisclark\/files\/2019\/11\/general3-768x404.png 768w, https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/lewisclark\/files\/2019\/11\/general3.png 1621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot electron quantum optics Quantum dot charge pumps enable electrons to be injected into quantum Hall edge channels at high energy, well above the Fermi sea .\u00a0 Using these electrons, it is possible to realise optics-like experiments.\u00a0 The use of &hellip; 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