Almut Beige

Address:

Room:	9.72
Phone:	+44 (113) 343 3899
Email:	a.beige (at) leeds.ac.uk

Group members:

• Postdocs: Rebecca Palmer
• PhD students: Andreas Kurcz, Jonathan Busch, Tony Blake, Adam Stokes
• Visiting PhD students: Svetoslav Ivanov, Boyan Torosov (from Sofia)
• Former postdocs: Antonio Capolupo, Christian Schön, Alex Monras Blasi
• Former students: Christian Schön, Ben Tregenna, Carsten Marr, Hugo Cable, Yuan Liang Lim, Jeremy Metz, Giovanni Vacanti

Research interests:

• quantum optics, theory of open quantum systems
• implementation of quantum computing
• optical cooling techniques
• sonoluminescence
• quantum cryptography

Selected papers:

• Energy concentration in composite quantum systems,
  A. Kurcz, A. Capolupo, A. Beige, E. Del Giudice, and G. Vitiello, (submitted). arXiv:0909.5337.
  
• Sonoluminescence and quantum optical heating,
  A. Kurcz, A. Capolupo, and A. Beige, New J. Phys. 11, 053001 (2009). arXiv:0904.0885.
  
• Cooling atoms into entangled states,
  G. Vacanti and A. Beige, New J. Phys. 11, 083008 (2009). arXiv:0903.2796.
  
• High-error rate quantum key distribution for long-distance communication,
  M. M. Khan, M. Murphy, and A. Beige, New J. Phys. 11, 063043 (2009). arXiv:0901.3909.
  
• Atomic cluster state build up with macroscopic heralding,
  J. Metz, C. Schön, and A. Beige, Phys. Rev. A 76, 052307 (2007). arXiv:0707.4069.
  
• Repeat-until-success linear optics distributed quantum computing,
  Y. L. Lim, A. Beige, and L. C. Kwek, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 030505 (2005). quant-ph/0408043.
  
• Cooling many particles at once,
  A. Beige, P. L. Knight, and G. Vitiello, New J. Phys. 7, 96 (2005). quant-ph/0404160.
  
• Analysis of a two-atom double-slit experiment based on environment-induced measurements,
  C. Schön and A. Beige, Phys. Rev. A 64, 023806 (2001). quant-ph/0104076.
• Quantum computing using dissipation to remain in a decoherence-free subspace,
  A. Beige, D. Braun, B. Tregenna, and P. L. Knight, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1762 (2000). quant-ph/0004043.
• Projection postulate and atomic quantum Zeno effect,
  A. Beige and G. C. Hegerfeldt, Phys. Rev. A 53, 53 (1996). quant-ph/9512012.
  


• Complete list of publications
• Contribution to a book

Professional history:

• since October 2005: Quantum Information Group in the School of Physics & Astronomy in Leeds
• October 2003 - September 2004: Centre for Quantum Computation, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge
• October 2002 - September 2005: Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Quantum Optics and Laser Science Group (QOLS) at Imperial College London
• August 2000 - September 2002: Laser physics group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik in Garching by Munich
• June 1998 - July 2000: Theoretical Quantum Optics Group at Imperial College London
• March 1998 - May 1998: Quantum Theory Group at the University of Potsdam
• December 1992 - January 1998: Quantum Optics Group at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Göttingen

We acknowledge funding from:

• The Royal Society and GCHQ through the James Ellis University Research Fellowship
• The UK Engineering and Physical Research council (EPSRC)
• The Quantum Information Processing Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (QIP IRC)
• The European Integrated Project SCALA
• The European Research and Training network EMALI
• The European Science Foundation EuroQUAM Project CMMC