24th Australian Institute of Physics Congress

Australia/Adelaide
Adelaide Convention Centre
James Zanotti (The University of Adelaide), Paul Jackson (University of Adelaide), Waseem Kamleh (University of Adelaide)
Description

On behalf of the Australian Institute of Physics (AIP), it gives us great pleasure to invite you to participate in the 24th Australian Institute of Physics Congress, to be held at the Adelaide Convention Centre from 11-16 December, 2022. This year we are delighted to be co-locating with the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), the 7th International Workshop on Speciality Optical Fibers (WSOF), and the Conference on Optoelectronlc and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD).

The Congress will be held in Adelaide, South Australia, between Monday-Friday 12-16 December 2022. The venue for the Congress is the Adelaide Convention Centre, conveniently located on the picturesque banks of the Torrens Lake in the heart of the city.

The Adelaide Convention Centre is committed to providing a COVID Safe environment.

The optional pre-conference ANFF and 3D Printing workshops will be held at the North Terrace campus of the University of Adelaide on Sunday 11 December 2022.

This site is used to manage registrations and abstract submissions. Important notes:

 

  • ** Early-bird registration has now closed. You will now need to register at the standard rate **

 

  • As part of the abstract submission process, you will first need to sign up for an Indico guest account (you may need to check your SPAM folder for the confirmation email).
  • Before completing your registration, you need to read and agree to the Code of Conduct

More details about the conference can be found at the conference website: aip-congress.org.au

 

Participants
  • Abbas Borae
  • Abdulrahman S. Alotabi
  • Abu Mohammad Saffat-Ee Huq
  • Aditya Dubey
  • Adnaan Thakur
  • Adrien Di Lonardo
  • Afshin Karami
  • Aiswarya Pradeepkumar
  • Akitada Sakurai
  • Aks Kotian
  • Alberto Peruzzo
  • Alec Hannaford Gunn
  • Alessandro Tuniz
  • Alexander Dellios
  • Alexander Fuerbach
  • Alexander Gentleman
  • Alexander Heger
  • Alexander Sopov
  • Alexander Tritt
  • Alexander Wood
  • Alexei Gilchrist
  • Alexey Lyasota
  • Alexis Mendez
  • Alisher Kadyrov
  • Allan Ernest
  • Alois Herkommer
  • Amanuel Berhane
  • Ameera Jose
  • Amira Alghamdi
  • Anastasiia Tukova
  • Anders Kringhoej
  • Andre Chambers
  • Andre Luiten
  • Andre Scaffidi
  • Andrea Morello
  • Andreas Ioannou
  • Andrew Brown
  • Andrew Doherty
  • Andrew Komonen
  • Andrew Manning
  • Andrew Martin
  • Andrew Martin
  • Andrew Matulick
  • Andrew Morgan
  • Andrew Squires
  • Andrew Stuchbery
  • Andrew Wade
  • Andy Boes
  • Angsar Manatuly
  • Angus Gale
  • Angus Magarey
  • Angus Russell
  • Anibal Utreras-Alarcon
  • Anna Phillips
  • Anna Radionova
  • Anneshwa Dey
  • Anthony O'Rourke
  • Anthony Thomas AC
  • Anthony Williams
  • Antoni Rogalski
  • Anushka Thenuwara
  • Archil Kobakhidze
  • Arkady Fedorov
  • Arnan Mitchell
  • Ashby Hilton
  • Ashlee Caddell
  • Ashley Foote
  • Ashley Knipler
  • Asif Ahmed
  • Asma Akther
  • Asma Khalid
  • Baohua Jia
  • Behnam Tonekaboni
  • Ben Coombes
  • Ben Grace
  • Ben McAllister
  • Ben Travaglione
  • Benjamin Eggleton
  • Benjamin Pope
  • Benjamin Powell
  • Benjamin Roberts
  • Benjamin Russell
  • Bill Loizos
  • Blayney Walshe
  • Bob Coecke
  • Brad Neimann
  • Bradley Wegener
  • Bram Slagmolen
  • Brant Gibson
  • Brendan Kennedy
  • Brian Robson
  • Bruce Dawson
  • Bryan Dalton
  • Cahit Kargi
  • Cameron Jeffries
  • Cankut Eker
  • Carl Campugan
  • Carolyn Wood
  • Catalina Oana Curceanu
  • Catherine Merx
  • Cathy Foley
  • Cedric Simenel
  • Celine Boehm
  • Charlene Lobo
  • Cheng-Wei Qiu
  • Chern Yang Leong
  • Choon Kong Lai
  • Chris Bradly
  • Chris Perrella
  • Christopher Baker
  • Christopher Billington
  • Christopher Bounds
  • Christopher Chantler
  • Christopher Ferrie
  • Christopher Poulton
  • Clarissa Harvey
  • Clemens Ulrich
  • Csaba Balazs
  • Curtis Abell
  • Daichi Kurebayashi
  • Daniel Higginbottom
  • Daniel Klingenberg
  • Daniel Roberts
  • Daniel Terno
  • Danielle Holmes
  • Darcy Smith
  • Daria Smirnova
  • Darren Chow
  • Darryl Jones
  • David Bennett
  • David Dossett
  • David McClelland
  • David Ottaway
  • David Simpson
  • David Wilson
  • Davin Yue Ming Peng
  • Denitza Denkova
  • Derek Abbott
  • Derek Leinweber
  • Diane Donovan
  • Diego Bernal Garcia
  • Dinusha Serandi Gunawardena
  • Dmitry Fursa
  • Dominic Lane
  • Dominic Lewis
  • Dominick Joch
  • Dominique Didier St Médar
  • Dongchen Qi
  • Dragomir Neshev
  • Edmund Ting
  • Edward Obbard
  • Elizabeth Hinde
  • Elizabeth Pearce
  • Elizaveta Melik-Gaykazyan
  • Ella Roberts
  • Emil Génetay Johansen
  • Emily Ahern
  • Emily Filmer
  • Eric Cavalcanti
  • Ethan Payne
  • Fatema Tanjia
  • Fauzia Jabeen
  • Fei Hu
  • Feng Wang
  • Fernando Gotardo
  • Fernando Meneses
  • Floyd Creevey
  • Francis Pham
  • Frederique Vanholsbeeck
  • Gang-Ding Peng
  • Gary Mooney
  • Gavin Brennen
  • Geoff Pryde
  • Geoffrfey Taylor
  • Georgia Bolingbroke
  • Giorge Gemisis
  • Glen Douglass
  • Glenn Solomon
  • Graham Wild
  • Gregory Lane
  • Gregory White
  • Gunther Andersson
  • Haadi Umer
  • Haoran Ren
  • Harini Hapuarachchi
  • Harish Potti
  • Harish Vallury
  • Howard Wiseman
  • Hudson Leone
  • Huijia Luo
  • Hwa Yaw TAM
  • Ian Berkman
  • Igor Bray
  • Igor Litvinyuk
  • Ingita Banerjee
  • Ioannis Soranidis
  • Ivan Toftul
  • Ivana Gasulla
  • Jacinta Besten
  • Jacinta May
  • Jack Webster
  • Jake Atkinson
  • James Hutchison
  • James Quach
  • James Rabeau
  • James Sullivan
  • James Webb
  • James Zanotti
  • Jamie Heredge
  • Jared Cole
  • Jason Gavriel
  • Jason Twamley
  • Jayne Thompson
  • Jean-Philippe Tetienne
  • Jed Rowland
  • Jemy Geordy
  • Jeremy Bourhill
  • Jessie Posar
  • Jiaying Wang
  • Jiayuan Pan
  • Jingbo Wang
  • Jingxian Cui
  • Jinyong Ma
  • Jirina Stone
  • Joan Vaccaro
  • Jodie Bradby
  • John Ballato
  • John Close
  • John Grace
  • John Holdsworth
  • Jonathan Dean
  • Jonathon Horder
  • Jordan Jonker
  • Josh Christensen
  • Joshua Crawford
  • Joshua Davis
  • Joshua Guanzon
  • Joshua Machacek
  • Judith Pollard
  • Julia Gonski
  • Julian Grodzicky
  • Junxiang Zhang
  • Justin Widjaja
  • K. Utku Can
  • Kae Nemoto
  • Kaih Mitchell
  • Kandeel Mukhtar
  • Kareem Raslan
  • Karelle Siellez
  • Karen Kheruntsyan
  • Ken Baldwin
  • Ken Grant
  • Kenji Shimizu
  • Kevin Varvell
  • Khosro Zangeneh Kamali
  • Kirill Koshelev
  • Kristen Pudenz
  • Krzysztof Bolejko
  • Krzysztof Giergiel
  • Krzysztof Wilczyński
  • Kumaravelu Ganesan
  • Kwang Jun Lee
  • Kyle Boschen
  • Kyle Leaver
  • Kyle Netz
  • Lachlan McKie
  • Laila Al Sakkaf
  • Lan Fu
  • Larnii Booth
  • Laura Greene
  • Laurence Campbell
  • Lewis Williamson
  • Liam Hall
  • Liam Hockley
  • Liam McClelland
  • Lincoln Turner
  • Ling Sun
  • Lloyd Hollenberg
  • Lu Zhang
  • Lucas Ostrowski
  • Lukas Wesemann
  • Luke Mawst
  • Luke Pollock
  • Madhav Krishnan Vijayan
  • Madison Simmonds
  • Manjith Bose
  • Manuel Cervera
  • Manushan Thenabadu
  • Marco Capelli
  • Marco Fronzi
  • Margaret Reid
  • Mariusz Martyniuk
  • Mark Edmonds
  • Marko Perestjuk
  • Markus Hiekkamäki
  • Martijn de Sterke
  • Martin Ams
  • Martin Ploschner
  • Martin White
  • Marwan Haddara
  • Matt Dwyer
  • Matthew Bailes
  • Matthew Davis
  • Matthew Fewell
  • Matthew Goh
  • Matthew Griffith
  • Md Nazmul Islam Sarkar
  • Mehran Kianinia
  • Michael Ford
  • MIchael Johnston
  • Michael Murray
  • Michael Tobar
  • Michael Withford
  • Mikhael Sayat
  • Mikolaj Schmidt
  • Mile Gu
  • Minh Nguyen
  • Minsik Park
  • Miriam Ohlrich
  • Miroslav Filipovic
  • Mischa Batelaan
  • Mitchell de Vries
  • Mitchell Schiworski
  • Mohammad Istiaque Reja
  • Mohammad Rashidi Shahgoli
  • Mohammed Asiri
  • Ms Nitu Syed
  • Muhammad Usman
  • Murray Batchelor
  • Mushita Masud Munia
  • Mykhailo Klymenko
  • Nadia Toutounji
  • Nathan Clisby
  • Nathan Spinks
  • Nattaphong Wonglakhon
  • Neil Broderick
  • Neil Dowling
  • Nelson Tansu
  • Neuton Li
  • Nicholas Antonio
  • Nicholas Funai
  • Nicholas Hunt-Smith
  • Nicolas Menicucci
  • Nicole Bell
  • Nicolás Passarelli
  • Nigel Spooner
  • Nikita Simakov
  • Nima Dehdashtiakhavan
  • Nora Tischler
  • Oleg Sushkov
  • Oleg Tretiakov
  • Oliver Bellwood
  • Ori Henderson-Sapir
  • Paarangat Pushkarna
  • Padric McGee
  • Pan Ma
  • Paramjeet Kaur
  • Patjaree Aukarasereenont
  • Paul Dyke
  • Paul Jackson
  • Paul Lasky
  • Pedro Contino da Silva Costa
  • Peter Bauer
  • Peter Drummond
  • Peter Huf
  • Peter Lesniewski
  • Peter Marinos
  • Phiala Shanahan
  • Philipp Frey
  • Philipp Reineck
  • Philippe Bouyer
  • Piyush Jangid
  • Pritam Sharma
  • Qi Fang
  • Qi Yu
  • Qiucheng Song
  • Rachel Offer
  • Raj Patel
  • Rami Alsulami
  • Rana Adhikari
  • Ranjam Arora
  • Raymon Watson
  • Raymond Volkas
  • Rhys Mackintosh
  • Robert Koenig
  • Robert Sang
  • Rohan Glover
  • Roland Crocker
  • Roland Fleddermann
  • Rose Manakil
  • Rose Smail
  • Ross Swinbourn
  • Ross Young
  • Roy Williams
  • Russell Anderson
  • Ryan Burley
  • Ryan Marshman
  • Ryszard Buczynski
  • Ryuji Takagi
  • Sabrina Einecke
  • Sachin Kuzhumbithazhathu Shajil
  • Sahand Mahmoodian
  • Saleh Allehabi
  • Samuel Drake
  • Samuel Legge
  • Samuel White
  • Sanjeev Naguleswaran
  • Sarah Scholten
  • Sarath Raman Nair
  • Sascha Hoinka
  • Saurabh Bhardwaj
  • Scott Diddams
  • Sean Hodgman
  • Sejeong Kim
  • Sepehr Ahmadi
  • Serena Barnes
  • Sergey Kruk
  • Sergio Leon-Saval
  • Seyed Saleh Mousavi Khaleghi
  • Shaban Sulejman
  • Shaghik Atakaramians
  • Shao Qi Lim
  • Sheida Afshar
  • Shridhar Manjunath
  • Shubhashree Swain
  • Shuo Ma
  • Simon Ellis
  • Simon Haine
  • Simon Lee
  • Simon White
  • Simone Lamon
  • Siobhan Tobin
  • Sobhan Erfantalab
  • Sophie Muusse
  • Srikara Shankara
  • Srividya Durga Kota
  • Stephen Warren-Smith
  • Steven Simmons
  • Stuart Jackson
  • Sujan Das
  • Sumeet Walia
  • Sundance Bilson-Thompson
  • Susan Scott
  • Takaya Matsuura
  • Tanglaw Roman
  • Tapio Simula
  • Taras Plakhotnik
  • Thomas Chambers
  • Thomas Dinter
  • Thomas Kabelitz
  • Thomas Kong
  • Thomas Nommensen
  • Thomas Roocke
  • Tibor Kibedi
  • Tien Kieu
  • Tim Davis
  • Tim Senden
  • Timothy Gray
  • Timothy Martonhelyi
  • Tom Day
  • Tom Hadavizadeh
  • Tomas Howson
  • Toney Fernandez
  • Tony Hooker
  • Tracy Slatyer
  • Treerat Srivipat
  • Trevor Finlayson
  • Trevor Harris
  • Tyler Neely
  • Upender Singh
  • Urveshkumar Soni
  • Vaishali Adya
  • Valeriy Logozinskiy
  • Viet Linh Nguyen
  • Wally Melnitchouk
  • Warren McKenzie
  • Warwick Bowen
  • Waseem Kamleh
  • William Detmold
  • William Pappas
  • Xi Yu
  • Xianming Meng
  • Xiao Guo
  • Xiao Sun
  • Xiting Zhou
  • Xuan-Gong Wang
  • Xuanzhao Pan
  • Yana Izdebskaya
  • Yevgeny Stadnik
  • Yik Kheng Lee
  • Yile Ying
  • Yiqing Lu
  • Yiyi Zhong
  • Yongsop Hwang
  • Yow-Ming Hu
  • Yu-Han Liao
  • Yuling Wang
  • Yuri Kivshar
  • Zachary Holmes
  • Zahra Pirvali
  • Zain Mehdi
  • +478
    • 9:00 AM 4:00 PM
      Workshop on 3D Printing of Photonics Materials: 3D Printing Workshop Horace Lamb Lecture Theatre (University of Adelaide)

      Horace Lamb Lecture Theatre

      University of Adelaide

      • 9:00 AM
        3D Printing Workshop 7h

        Details for the 3D Printing Workshop can be found at https://aip-congress.org.au/workshop.html

    • 10:00 AM 3:00 PM
      ANFF Workshop: Fabricating Photonic and Optical Components: ANFF Workshop Braggs Lecture Theatre (University of Adelaide)

      Braggs Lecture Theatre

      University of Adelaide

      • 10:00 AM
        ANFF Workshop 5h

        Details for the ANFF workshop can be found at https://aip-congress.org.au/workshop.html

    • 6:00 PM 7:30 PM
      Welcome Reception 1h 30m Exhibition Halls F & G (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Exhibition Halls F & G

      Adelaide Convention Centre

    • 8:30 AM 9:00 AM
      Keynote: Welcome Session Plenary Halls A/C (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Plenary Halls A/C

      Adelaide Convention Centre

    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Plenary: Plenary 1 Plenary Halls A/C (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Plenary Halls A/C

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Irina Kabakova (University of Technology Sydney)
      • 9:00 AM
        From Nonlinear Optics to High-Intensity Laser Physics 45m

        The laser increased the intensity of light that can be generated by orders of magnitude and thus brought about nonlinear optical interactions with matter. Chirped pulse amplification, also known as CPA, changed the intensity level by a few more orders of magnitude and helped usher in a new type of laser-matter interaction that is referred to as high-intensity laser physics. In this talk, I will discuss the differences between nonlinear optics and high-intensity laser physics. The development of CPA and why short, intense laser pulses can cut transparent material will also be included. I will also discuss future applications.

        Speaker: Prof. Donna Strickland (University of Waterloo)
      • 9:45 AM
        Quantum sensing and imaging with diamond spins 45m

        The diamond NV center offers a uniquely versatile path towards nanoscale imaging of condensed matter and biological systems. Here I present NV-based magnetic imaging experiments and discuss challenges to improved resolution and sensitivity, largely focused on materials engineering and tackling interface-induced decoherence.

        Speaker: Prof. Ania Bleszynski Jayich (University of California, Santa Barbara)
    • 10:30 AM 11:00 AM
      Morning tea 30m Exhibition Halls F & G (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Exhibition Halls F & G

      Adelaide Convention Centre

    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics: ANZCOP 1 - Optical Sensors 1 Room E2 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room E2

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Shahraam Afshar Vahid (Laser Physics and Photonic Devices Laboratories, University of South Australia, SA 5095, Australia)
      • 11:00 AM
        New frontiers in smart sensor technology for a healthier, safer and sustainable future 30m

        Recent advances in device physics, nanotechnology, AI, and sensor fusion is leading to a revolution in smart sensor technology to provide multi-faceted interfaces to the three-dimensional physical, chemical, and data environment, enabling high-performance information gathering and real-time situational awareness.

        Speaker: Prof. Benjamin Eggleton (The University of Sydney Nano Institute)
      • 11:30 AM
        Robust Optical Fibre Sensors for Harsh Wastewater Environments 15m

        We report robust fibre Bragg grating (FBG) sensors that optically measure environmental conditions in harsh, corrosive, biofouling wastewater networks over long periods.

        Speaker: Martin Ams (Macquarie University)
      • 11:45 AM
        Laser Written Carbonised Porous Silicon Waveguides for Optical Sensor Applications 15m

        Demonstrating the first positive-patterning process for creating passivated waveguides in porous silicon films using laser writing in a controllable atmosphere to retain an open pore structure suitable for highly sensitive optical sensor applications.

        Speaker: Jesse Fletcher (University of Western Australia)
      • 12:00 PM
        Towards a sub-attometer fibre wavemeter based on Speckle interference patterns 15m

        The measurement of optical wavelengths using speckle is a promising tool for compact and precise wavemeters/spectrometers. We explore the limits of a speckle pattern-based wavemeter, aiming to achieve a measurement precision better than an attometer.

        Speaker: Chris Perrella (University of Adelaide)
    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics: ANZCOP 2 - Astrophotonics Room E3 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room E3

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Simon Gross (Macquarie University)
      • 11:00 AM
        Astrophotonics: when astronomy meets photonics 30m

        Astrophotonics lies at the interface of photonics and astronomical instrumentation. The power of photonics and Adaptive Optics, together with the development of new photonic devices, strengthens the case for astrophotonics year by year.

        Speaker: Prof. Sergio Leon-Saval (Sydney Astrophotonics Instrumentation Laboratory, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.)
      • 11:30 AM
        A Focal Plane All-fibre Wavefront Sensor 15m

        Adaptive optics (AO) is critical in astronomy, optical communications, remote sensing, and optical beam manipulation to correct distortions caused by propagation through media like the Earth’s atmosphere or living tissue.

        Speaker: Fiona Wei
      • 11:45 AM
        Development of Western Australia’s Optical Space Communications Capabilities 15m

        An overview of the free-space optical communications research being conducted at UWA, with emphasis on the development of the Western Australian Optical Ground Station and results from field tests with a deployable mobile optical terminal.

        Speaker: Benjamin Dix-Matthews (The University of Western Australia)
      • 12:00 PM
        Developing Optical Phased Array sensing for the Breakthrough Starshot propulsion system 15m

        We present the key considerations in our design for using optical interferometry to phase-lock optical phased arrays with up to 100 million emitters, needed for the ambitious proposed Breakthrough Starshot mission.

        Speaker: Paul Sibley
      • 12:15 PM
        Development of an mid-infrared integrated optics 4-telescope beam combiner for the Hi-5 instrument 15m

        An integrated optic 4-telescope beam combiner is being developed for the detection of exoplanets using nulling interferometry. The beam combiner, fabricated using ultrafast laser inscription, is optimised for achromatic behaviour in the mid-infrared (3.5-4.0 µm).

        Speaker: Mr Ahmed Sanny (University of Cologne, Macquarie University)
    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      AIP: Relativity and Gravitation: ASGRG 1 Room R2 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R2

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Dr Karelle Siellez (University of California Santa Cruz)
      • 11:00 AM
        Seismic-isolation-chain displacement sensing using Digital Interferometry 15m

        Future interferometric gravitational-wave detectors are predicted to be impacted by low-frequency relative displacement motion between their seismic isolation platforms. We will present the advantages, sensitivity targets and latest prototype developments towards a digitally-enhanced interferometric sensor for measuring this motion.

        Speaker: Ya Zhang (Australian National University)
      • 11:15 AM
        The Optical Limit of Phase Measurement in Space Based Interferometry 15m

        This talk discusses a rigorous analysis of phasemeter behaviour in the ultra weak-light regime. We explore the fundamental limit in optical power at which heterodyne phase tracking measurements can be reliably performed, Focused on application in space-based interferometry.

        Speaker: Callum Sambridge
      • 11:30 AM
        Enhanced laser noise suppression for LISA using arm and cavity locking 15m

        This research illustrates a novel method of stabilizing the laser in the LISA mission with respect to two references – the on-board optical cavity, and the inter-spacecraft separations or the arms of the interferometer

        Speaker: Mr Jobin Valliyakalayil (Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics, Australian National University)
      • 11:45 AM
        Characterization of laser offset phase locking for a Newtonian noise sensor 15m

        We present the characterization of the simultaneous four offset-optical phase-locked loop set up used as part of a Newtonian noise sensor readout, and discuss their performance and limits with respect to the scientific requirements for the experiment.

        Speaker: Sheon Chua (Australian National University)
      • 12:00 PM
        Tolerance of Hartmann Wavefront Sensors to third-order optical aberrations in the projecting telescopes 15m

        Designing Hartmann wavefront sensor telescopes for improved sensing of thermal aberrations in large diameter optics inside gravitational wave interferometers.

        Speaker: Madison Simmonds
      • 12:15 PM
        The latest development in ALFRA, the UWA low-frequency rotational accelerometer 15m

        In this talk, we will present our latest developments of the advanced low-frequency rotational accelerometer that has direct utilization in seismology applications and seismic isolation in gravitation wave detectors.

        Speaker: Carl Blair (University of Western Australia)
    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      AIP: Atomic and Molecular Physics: ATMOP 1 - Open systems & topology Room R4 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R4

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Matthew Davis (The University of Queensland)
      • 11:00 AM
        Melting of vortex lattice in a two-dimensional BEC 30m

        In this work, we experimentally create a lattice of vortices in a two-dimensional BEC and map the vortex density as the lattice melts. These states have gained prominence as an analogue of electrons in the quantum hall effect.

        Speaker: Dr Tyler Neely (University of Queensland)
      • 11:30 AM
        Rapid production of metastable helium BEC using cross-beam dipole trap 15m

        We demonstrate the laser cooling techniques for rapid production of a metastable helium BEC. The experimental setup features an in-vacuum magnetic trap and a cross-beam optical dipole trap. We obtained a pure BEC of 1 million atoms in 3.3 seconds.

        Speaker: Sam Meng (Australian National University)
      • 11:45 AM
        Towards an experimental violation of a motional-state Bell's inequality using ultracold helium 15m

        We present our experimental progress towards demonstrating quantum non-locality in a matter wave system of ultracold helium via a Rarity-Tapster interferometer. The momentum entangled state used for the violation is generated by colliding helium Bose-Einstein condensates.

        Speaker: Kieran Thomas
      • 12:00 PM
        Feedback cooling atomic gases to quantum degeneracy 15m

        We propose a new, low-loss method of cooling neutral alkali atoms to quantum degeneracy by optical feedback control. We present full-field quantum simulations demonstrating the viability of the technique, and show robustness to realistic experimental imperfections.

        Speaker: Matthew Goh (University of Oxford)
      • 12:15 PM
        Gravitation, quantum computing and quantised vortices 15m

        This is theoretical work on quantised vortices in superfluids with a specific focus on connections between the theory of rotating neutral superfluids, topological quantum computation, and gravitation endowed by an acoustic metric.

        Speaker: Tapio Simula
    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices: COMMAD 1 - Hybrid Semiconductors and Processing Room R7 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R7

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Mariusz Martyniuk
      • 11:00 AM
        Intrinsic quantum confinement and charge-carrier localisation in metal halide semiconductors 30m

        Metal halide semiconductors have emerged as attractive materials for solar cells. In this talk I will discuss some of our recent work exploring the optoelectronic properties of lead-iodide perovskites and silver-bismuth halide semiconductors.

        Speaker: Laura Herz (University of Oxford)
      • 11:30 AM
        Enhanced Photodetection with BP – Organic Hybrid 15m

        Tuning the charge transfer and optoelectronic properties of 2D materials such as black phosphorus (BP) by hybridising it with an organic semiconducting polymer.

        Speaker: Mei Xian Low (RMIT University)
      • 11:45 AM
        The Application of Gallium Oxide High Power Optical Devices by Etching Process Optimization 15m

        β-Ga2O3 gratings were fabricated by inductively-coupled-plasma (ICP) etching process to have a clearer understanding of dry etching mechanism during semiconductor device manufacturing process. Different parameters were adjusted to investigate their effects and find the best etching recipe.

        Speaker: Ms Xiting Zhou
      • 12:00 PM
        MBE growth and mechanical properties of HgCdSe infrared materials 15m

        We report high-quality MBE growth and a mechanical property study of HgCdSe layers on GaSb (211) substrates. Both the crystal quality and the mechanical properties of HgCdSe have been demonstrated to be comparable to those of HgCdTe

        Speaker: Shuo Ma
      • 12:15 PM
        Optimising CVD boron doped diamond with a novel 3D-printed titanium Faraday cage for an all diamond superconducting device platform 15m

        Here we report the optimization of the growth of superconducting boron doped diamond on insulating diamond substrates via microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition (MPCVD) using a 3D-printed titanium Faraday cage, which leads to superior uniformity in growth and boron incorporation.

        Speaker: Yi Jiang (The University of Melbourne)
    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      AIP: Nuclear and Particle Physics: NUPP 1 Hall C (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Hall C

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Prof. Anthony Williams (University of Adelaide)
      • 11:00 AM
        First FRIB experiment: new microsecond isomer in 32Na discovered with the FDSi 30m

        Results from the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) reveal the first microsecond isomer for exotic N=20 nuclei. Implications for nuclear structure and the competition between spherical and deformed shapes will be discussed.

        Speaker: Dr Timothy Gray (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
      • 11:30 AM
        Lattice QCD Determination of Transverse Force Distributions in the Proton 15m

        Transverse force tomography is a relatively new technique that offers an alternative perspective on confining forces in Quantum Chromodynamics. We present the first lattice QCD computation of the spatial distribution of the "Colour-Lorentz" forces in the proton.

        Speaker: Joshua Crawford
      • 11:45 AM
        Using TDHF simulations of quasifission to probe the fission surface of Og-294 15m

        Shell effects in nuclear fission of superheavy oganesson-294 are investigated through simulations of quasifission trajectories. Results show that shell effects from fission affect quasifission along with excitation energy dependent changes.

        Speaker: Patrick McGlynn
      • 12:00 PM
        Pyrate: a novel system for data transformations, reconstruction and analysis for the SABRE experiment 15m

        This presentation addresses the design and implementation of the pyrate software system developed within the context of the SABRE experiment for dark matter direct detection. The system is oriented at processing and analysing the data collected by the experiment.

        Speaker: Michael Mews
      • 12:15 PM
        Searches for Long-Lived Particles using Displaced Vertices and Missing Transverse Energy at the ATLAS Detector 15m

        Long Lived Particles are predicted in many BSM models. This is an overview of previous analyses to highlight where missing energy, with additional data may be more sensitive to SUSY signals, or to help set limits on supersymmetric particle masses.

        Speaker: Emily Filmer (University of Adelaide (AU))
    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      AIP: Quantum Science and Technology: QST 1 - Quantum Computing 1 Room R5 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R5

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Prof. Jingbo Wang (The University of Western Australia)
      • 11:00 AM
        From quantum picturalism to quantum AI 30m

        Our team have performed Quantum Natural Language Processing on an IBM quantum computer and our own trapped-ion hardware. Key to achieving this is the observation that quantum theory and natural language are governed by much of the same compositional structure.

        Speaker: Prof. Bob Coecke (Quantinuum Ltd.)
      • 11:30 AM
        Transversal Injection: A method for direct encoding of ancilla states for non-Clifford gates using stabiliser codes. 15m

        I would like to apply for a talk (preferred) or poster. I am the primary author of the paper and the one which will present.

        Please find attached the abstract in .pdf format.

        Speaker: Jason Gavriel (University of Technology Sydney)
      • 11:45 AM
        Low Depth Parity Check Gate set for Quantum Error Correction 15m

        We build low depth parity check gate set such that these gates become the most natural gate for QEC implementation.By building gates that are fundamental to QEC rather than universal computation,we can boost the threshold and ease the experimental hardness.

        Speaker: GOZDE USTUN (UNSW)
      • 12:00 PM
        Experimental Analysis of State Injection for Error-Corrected Quantum Systems 15m

        How to experimentally investigate the fidelity of injected states for error-corrected quantum computing using the surface code and superconducting qubits. The injection method with the highest resultant fidelity minimises the need for resource-intensive state distillation.

        Speaker: Anthony O’Rourke (The University of Technology Sydney)
      • 12:15 PM
        Artificial Neural Network Decoding for the Surface Code 15m

        We have developed an artificial neural network decoding technique for large scale surface codes with complex boundaries suffering a variety of noise models.

        Speaker: Spiro Gicev (University of Melbourne)
    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      AIP: Quantum Science and Technology: QST 2 - Quantum Semiconductors Room R6 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R6

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Ben Sparkes (Defence Science and Technology Group)
      • 11:00 AM
        Chiral transport of hot carriers in graphene in the quantum Hall regime 30m

        Quantum Hall systems are of broad interest as they cover low-dimensional quantum systems, strong charge correlations, and topological physics. Our results lead to a unified understanding of the relaxation processes in graphene over different magnetic field strength regimes.

        Speaker: Prof. Glenn Solomon (University of Adelaide)
      • 11:30 AM
        Electronic Transport in Atomically Abrupt Semiconductor Tunnel Junctions 15m

        In this work we show the results of an atomistic tight-binding approach coupled with the Non-Equilibrium Green’s Function (NEGF) formalism when applied to phosphorus doped silicon tunnel junctions that can be manufactured with sub-nanometre accuracy.

        Speaker: Matthew Donnelly
      • 11:45 AM
        No Tradeoff between Coherence and Sub-Poissonianity in Heisenberg-Limited Lasers 15m

        This work studies of families of laser models that exhibit both Heisenberg-limited beam coherence, and sub-Poissonian beam photon statistics. In particular, we investigate if imposing sub-Poissonian statistics comes at the expense of a reduction in the coherence.

        Speaker: Prof. Howard Wiseman (Griffith University)
      • 12:00 PM
        Method for in-solution, high-throughput T1 relaxometry using fluorescent nanodiamonds 15m

        We have developed a measurement platform that can report the T1 spin lattice relaxation time from an ensemble of fluorescent nanodiamonds in solution. This platform can be used for rapid material characterisation and chemical sensing in a convenient cuvette-based approach.

        Speaker: Erin Grant (The University of Melbourne)
      • 12:15 PM
        Identification and mitigation of quantum relaxometry temporal artifacts 15m

        In the practical implementation of relaxometry techniques, systematic errors arise in the quantum state preparation that need to be mitigated for the accurate monitoring of external stimuli. This talk presents strategies to address such limitations for practical applications.

        Speaker: Ella Walsh
    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      AIP: Theoretical and Mathematical: TMP 1 Room R3 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R3

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Margaret Reid (Swinburne University of Technology)
      • 11:00 AM
        Entropy, and topological phase analysis in quantum simulations of the early universe with finite temperature effects 30m

        We present a numerical model of an early universe analog using a Bose-Einstein condensate, including temperature effects and topological properties. This may provide an insight into the particle-antiparticle asymmetry seen in our universe.

        Speaker: Prof. Peter Drummond (Swiburne University of technology)
      • 11:30 AM
        Surface gravity and information loss 15m

        Information loss in black hole evolution is one of the longest-running controversies in theoretical physics. However, the discordant properties of different generalisations of surface gravity reveal that the problem cannot be formulated self-consistently in semiclassical gravity.

        Speaker: Sebastian Murk (Macquarie University and Sydney Quantum Academy)
      • 11:45 AM
        Scattering Amplitudes of Massive Spin-2 Kaluza-Klein Particles 15m

        Compactified extra dimensions are well motivated BSM candidates. I will talk about the behaviour of scattering amplitudes of Kaluza-Klein gravitons in both flat and warped extra dimensions and assess the range of validity of the low-energy effective Kaluza-Klein theory.

        Speaker: Dipan Sengupta (University of Adelaide)
      • 12:00 PM
        Progress toward uncovering the spin of a vortex 15m

        By adopting a Maxwell-Einstein picture of a (2+1)-dimensional superfluid it is predicted that vortex quasi-particles (kelvons) posses an intrinsic spin. We examine the possibility of implementing topological non-abelian geometric phases on such kelvon spins.

        Speaker: Emil Johansen
      • 12:15 PM
        A possibilistic no-go theorem on the Wigner’s friend paradox 15m

        We demonstrate a logical no-go theorem on a version of the Wigner's friend thought experiment which strengthens previous device-independent no-go results and opens new questions on the interface of quantum foundations and modal logic.

        Speaker: Marwan Haddara (Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland 4222, Australia)
    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      7th International Workshop on Speciality Optical Fibres: WSOF 1 - Advanced Fabrication 1 Hall A (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Hall A

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem
      • 11:00 AM
        Molten core fiber fabrication: Opening up the Period Table 30m

        This invited talk will discuss the molten core method for fabricating a wide variety of novel glassy and crystalline core optical fibers, exhibiting an equally wide variety of fascinating properties not previously known

        Speaker: John Ballato
      • 11:30 AM
        Laser-based drawing of optical fibre 30m

        This work explores using CO-laser heating to fabricate speciality optical fibre from unconventional materials. The unique temperature dynamics of this furnace demonstrated fine control of crystallisation in crystal-core glass-clad fibres.

        Speaker: Clarissa Harvey (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)
      • 12:00 PM
        Silica Optical Fibres via 3D Printing Technologies 30m

        We report recent progresses and discuss key technical challenges in research and development of specialty silica optical fibres via 3D printing technologies.

        Speaker: Gang-Ding Peng
    • 12:30 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch and exhibition 1h 30m Exhibition Halls F & G (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Exhibition Halls F & G

      Adelaide Convention Centre

    • 12:30 PM 2:00 PM
      Meetings: Australia and New Zealand Optical Society AGM Room R6 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R6

      Adelaide Convention Centre

    • 12:30 PM 2:00 PM
      Meetings: Meeting of Department of Physics Heads Room R7 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R7

      Adelaide Convention Centre

    • 2:00 PM 3:30 PM
      Focus Session: Unveiling Emergent Physics of Novel Functional Materials with Neutron Scattering 1 Room R3 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R3

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Dehong Yu
      • 2:00 PM
        Manipulating Low Dimensional Quantum Spin Systems for Future Spintronic Technologies 30m

        In this talk I will discuss recent dynamic neutron scattering results from two natural minerals, linarite and atacamite, detailing the extent of our knowledge of these two copper oxide materials.

        Speaker: Kirrily Rule (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation)
      • 2:30 PM
        Stability and Scaling Behaviour of Magnetic Skyrmions in Cu2OSeO3 30m

        The data provide new aspects about the scaling behavior of the skyrmion and helical distances. This offers new valuable information on the parameters in the spin Hamiltonian, which are responsible for the formation of the fascination quantum protected objects.

        Speaker: Clemens Ulrich (The University of New South Wales)
      • 3:00 PM
        Kitaev magnets and the search for the long-sought spin liquid state 30m

        In this talk, I first introduce the Kitaev spin liquid and discuss its properties. I present some stunning features such as the formation of Majorana fermion Landau levels.

        Speaker: Dr Stephan Rachel (University of Melbourne)
    • 2:00 PM 3:30 PM
      Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics: ANZCOP 3 - Optical Sensors 2 Room E2 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room E2

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Jiawen Li (University of Adelaide)
      • 2:00 PM
        Light interacting with the vacuum 30m

        OPTICA Vice-President Keynote Talk

        Authors: Gerd Leuchs 1,2,3, Vsevolod Salakhutdinov 1, Margaret Hawton 4, Luis L. Sánchez-Soto 1,5

        1 Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany
        2 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
        3 Nexus for Quantum Technologies, University of Ottawa, Canada
        4 Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada
        5 Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

        Abstract:
        We treat the virtual particle-anti-particle pairs in the vacuum as two level quantum systems with a transition energy of 2mc^2, forming a dielectric and a diamagnetic. The approach describes the linear response explaining the parameters appearing in Maxwell's equations and also the nonlinear response. This phenomenological model is largely compatible with quantum field theory, without leading to divergencies. The approach provides novel insight into the ubiquitous vacuum medium.

        Short Bio:
        Gerd Leuchs studied physics at the Universities of Cologne and Munich. His PhD-thesis dealt with the fine structure splitting of sodium Rydberg atoms. He received the Habilitation degree at the University of Munich on multiphoton processes in atoms. After stays in the USA and Switzerland, Gerd Leuchs became full professor of physics at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Since 2009 he was director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and since 2011 he is professor adjunct at the University of Ottawa. He is member of the German and of the Russian Academy of Sciences and holds honorary degrees from Danish Technical University and St. Petersburg State University. He won the 2005 Quantum Electronics and Optics Prize of the European Physical Society and the 2018 Herbert Walther Prize, a joint award by Optica (formerly OSA) and DPG. In 2012 he was awarded the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 2018 he was appointed a member of Bavaria’s Maximilian Order. Currently (2022) he is vice-president of Optica. His research spans the whole range from classical to quantum optics, with emphasis on the limits of focussing, on photon-atom-coupling and on quantum noise reduction of light.

        Speaker: Prof. Gerd Leuchs (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light)
      • 2:30 PM
        Measuring Magnetic Fields at Arbitrary Frequencies with an Atomic Magnetometer 15m

        Calculating the Larmor precession phase evolution to measure magnetic fields at arbitrary frequencies with an Non-linear Magneto-Optical Rotation (NMOR) atomic magnetometer.

        Speaker: Mr Kyle Netz (University of Adelaide)
      • 2:45 PM
        Diamond-glass nanoparticles for nanoscale quantum sensing 15m

        We model the effects of coating nanodiamonds with glass, to mitigate some of the particle-to-particle variability with as-received nanodiamonds by creating a more uniform spherical shape. Such new particles represent a new platform for multi-function quantum biosensing.

        Speaker: Qiang Sun
      • 3:00 PM
        Wearable Optical Fibre Sensors for Physiological Measurements 15m

        We report on a polyurethane capillary fiber sensor that transduces body movements containing information of physiological parameters such as respiratory and pulse rates. We also investigate key factors, like transfer function, for successful system design.

        Speaker: Simon Fleming
      • 3:15 PM
        Optimisation of a Fibre Laser Hydrophone for Marine Traffic Monitoring 15m

        Refinement and adaptation of the distributed feedback fiber laser based hydrophone for the remote monitoring of marine traffic is reported. Hydrophone bandwidth and multiplexing noise have been mitigated; a substantial increase in hydrostatic pressure compensation depth has been demonstrated.

        Speaker: Alexei Tikhomirov (DSTG)
    • 2:00 PM 3:30 PM
      Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics: ANZCOP 4 - Biophotonics 1 Room E3 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room E3

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Judith Dawes (Macquarie university)
      • 2:00 PM
        Calibration Methods for in vivo Microrheology with Rotational Optical Tweezers 15m

        Rotational Optical Tweezers provides a unique tool to perform dynamic microrheology of intracellular vesicles using an internalised vaterite microsphere. Here, we discuss the required calibration of trapping power and the probe radius for successful microviscometry.

        Speaker: Mark Watson (The University of Queensland)
      • 2:15 PM
        Optical Tweezers for IVF: an in vitro study of reproductive cells and their environment 15m

        Using optical tweezers for the better understanding of how the microrheology of reproductive cells and their local environment during in vitro procedures is correlated to embryo development, implantation success, pregnancy, and live birth.

        Speaker: Carl Adrian Campugan (University of Adelaide)
      • 2:30 PM
        Clinical translation of optical imaging for surgical guidance - from bench to bedside 30m

        This presentation will cover the translation of optical imaging to address challenges in endocrine surgery. Three different techniques will be used to (a) detect the parathyroid gland, (b) perfusion of the gland and (c) visualize the nerves during surgery.

        Speaker: Prof. Anita Mahadevan-Jansen (SPIE President Elect)
      • 3:00 PM
        Diagnosing Skin Lesions – Malignant & Benign – with Light 30m

        Skin and prostate cancer have quite high incidence rates in New Zealand, Australia and the rest of the world. Identifying suspicious tissue for diagnostic and biopsy is a core challenge for treating both of these diseases. Optical spectroscopy offers rich datasets to improve the identification of diseased tissue. This presentation will discuss our recent advances.

        Speaker: Prof. Cather Simpson (The University of Auckland)
    • 2:00 PM 3:30 PM
      AIP: Relativity and Gravitation: ASGRG 2 Room R2 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R2

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Krzysztof Bolejko
      • 2:00 PM
        The cautious tale of GW200129: mimicking binary black-hole spin-precession with detector noise 15m

        The gravitational-wave observation of GW200129 hinted at the presence of spin-precession - an important observation for understanding black-hole binary formation. We discuss how this observation may instead be attributed to noise transients in the gravitational-wave detectors.

        Speaker: Mr Ethan Payne (California Institute of Technology)
      • 2:15 PM
        Black holes, white holes, wormholes: their geometry and physics 15m

        Black holes, white holes and wormholes can be treated in a unified fashion. Starting from two natural assumptions many of their properties, sometimes in conflict with the usual semiclassical expectations, can be obtained.

        Speaker: Daniel Terno
      • 2:30 PM
        Horizon Singularities and Energy Momentum Tensor Classification 15m

        Physical black holes are considered to be trapped regions bounded by the apparent horizon. Even though assuming that semi-classical physics is valid and curvature is not diverging there, other things suggest that the apparent horizon is a mildly singular surface.

        Speaker: Ioannis Soranidis (Macquarie University)
      • 2:45 PM
        Continuous Gravitational Waves from Young Neutron Stars 15m

        This talk focuses on work completed in adapting continuous gravitational wave search techniques, currently only sensitive to long lived stable neutron stars, to be suited to detecting young neutron stars with rapidly changing frequency.

        Speaker: Ben Grace
      • 3:00 PM
        Space-Time Inside a Star 15m

        Exact solutions to Einstein's field equations are notoriously difficult. In this work we obtain expressions for the metric tensor for the interior of a star, i.e., for static spherically symmetric space-times with positive and monotonically decreasing density and pressure.

        Speaker: Samuel Drake (Flinders University)
      • 3:15 PM
        Quantum signatures of a mass-superposed black hole 15m

        In quantum gravity, it is anticipated that there exist "quantum superpositions of spacetime". Here, I develop a framework for constructing such superpositions to analyse a mass-superposed black hole. My results corroborate Bekenstein's conjecture for the mass quantisation of black holes.

        Speaker: Joshua Foo
    • 2:00 PM 3:30 PM
      AIP: Atomic and Molecular Physics: ATMOP 2 - Superfluidity & vortex lattices Room R4 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R4

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Sean Hodgman
      • 2:30 PM
        Mutual friction and diffusion of two-dimensional quantum vortices 15m

        We present a microscopic theory of thermally-damped vortex motion in oblate atomic superfluids, providing a microscopic origin for the damping and Brownian motion of quantized vortices in two-dimensional atomic superfluids, which has previously been limited to phenomenology.

        Speaker: Zain Mehdi (The Australian National University)
      • 2:45 PM
        Vortex lattice nucleation in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates 15m

        When subjected to a rotating magnetic field, the resulting precession of the dipole moments of a dipolar BEC imparts angular momentum to the system. We show how this can be used to generate vortex lattices, as observed in recent experiments.

        Speaker: Prof. Andy Martin (University of Melbourne)
      • 3:00 PM
        Machine learning optimised stirring of persistent currents in BECs 15m

        We apply machine learning methods to control and optimise the stirring protocol imposed on Rubidium-87 Bose-Einstein condensates in experiment. The optimisation allows for controlled generation of various persistent current states albeit with no universal optimum stirring parameters.

        Speaker: Simeon Simjanovski (The University of Queensland)
      • 3:15 PM
        Emergent Universal Drag Law in a Model of Superflow 15m

        We study the behaviour of drag in superfluids and observe the universal relation between the Reynolds number and drag coefficient in superflow. This establishes hydrodynamic scale invariance extends into the limit of quantum fluids.

        Speaker: Maarten Christenhusz (University of Queensland)
    • 2:00 PM 3:30 PM
      Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices: COMMAD 2 - Quantum Well Devices and Lasers Room R7 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R7

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Antoni Rogalski (Military University of Technology)
      • 2:00 PM
        High-Power Mid-IR Quantum Cascade Lasers grown by MOCVD 30m

        The growth of QCLs requires an understanding of the interfacial properties of the superlattice (SL) active region. Atomic probe tomography is used to elucidate the interfacial properties within the QCL, and incorporate these observed properties into advanced QCL designs.

        Speaker: Prof. Luke Mawst (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
      • 2:30 PM
        Structural investigation on epitaxially grown CdTe/Sb2Te3 materials 15m

        In this work a 3D CdTe layer was grown on 2D Sb2Te3 nanosheets through molecular beam epitaxy, subsequently the heterostructure at the interface was studied by TEM, suggesting high quality epitaxial growth materials promising for applications in future optoelectronic devices.

        Speaker: Xiao Sun (Curtin University)
      • 2:45 PM
        Hydration imaging with THz Quantum Cascade Lasers: Towards Precision Agriculture 15m

        Terahertz sensing holds promise for applications in precision agriculture due to the sensitivity of terahertz waves to hydration.
        Here we present a laser-based terahertz imaging technique to evaluate temporal change of hydration in leaves.

        Speaker: Prof. Aleksandar Rakić (The University of Queensland)
      • 3:00 PM
        Generation of Large-Scale Entanglement on Physical Quantum Devices 15m

        We generate and verify entanglement in sizeable multiqubit states prepared on IBM Quantum superconducting devices. We report the detection of whole-device bipartite entanglement on a 65-qubit quantum device and genuine multipartite entanglement over all qubits of a 27-qubit quantum device.

        Speaker: Gary Mooney (University of Melbourne)
      • 3:15 PM
        Nanoscale-Engineered InGaN/GaN Quantum Wells via Machine Learning Design 15m

        We present the machine learning design of nanoscale-engineered InGaN-based QW with ten sublayers for enhanced performance based on a heuristic algorithm. Such a design approach can achieve significant improvements in the material gain characteristics and current density of QW.

        Speaker: Nelson Tansu
    • 2:00 PM 3:30 PM
      AIP: Nuclear and Particle Physics: NUPP 2 Hall C (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Hall C

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Derek Leinweber (CSSM, University of Adelaide)
      • 2:00 PM
        Internal structure of the nucleon through global QCD analysis 30m

        We report on recent advances in reconstructing the internal quark and gluon structure of the nucleon through global QCD analysis of high energy scattering data.

        Speaker: Wally Melnitchouk (Jefferson Lab)
      • 2:30 PM
        Studying the role of multi-parton interactions in the production of doubly-heavy hadrons in proton-proton collisions 15m

        The beauty and charm quarks are ideal probes of perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics, owing to their large masses. The formation of hadrons from quarks produced in different parton-parton interactions within the same proton-proton collision is studied using doubly-heavy hadrons.

        Speaker: Tom Hadavizadeh (Monash University (AU))
      • 2:45 PM
        Low-lying Odd-parity Nucleon Resonances in Hamiltonian Effective Field Theory 15m

        By performing a combined analysis of data from pion-Nucleon scattering experiments with first-principles calculations from lattice QCD, we gain insight into the composition and structure of the low-lying odd-parity Nucleon resonances.

        Speaker: Curtis Abell
      • 3:00 PM
        The Compton amplitude and structure functions of the nucleon 15m

        I focus on the QCDSF/UKQCD/CSSM lattice collaboration's advances in calculating the forward Compton amplitude of nucleon via an implementation of the second-order Feynman-Hellmann theorem. I highlight our progress on investigating the low moments of (un)polarised structure functions of the nucleon.

        Speaker: K. Utku Can (The University of Adelaide)
      • 3:15 PM
        The Role of Vector Boson Fusion in the Production of Heavy Vector Triplets at the LHC and HL-LHC 15m

        Pertaining to the analysis of heavy vector production at the LHC, this project focuses on vector boson fusion as the dominant production channel for heavy vector triplets and presents limits within the relevant parameter space.

        Speaker: Mr Timothy Martonhelyi (School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia)
    • 2:00 PM 3:30 PM
      AIP: Quantum Science and Technology: QST 3 - Quantum Computing 2 Room R5 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R5

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Bob Coecke (Quantinuum Ltd.)
      • 2:00 PM
        Quantum computed moments – applications and prospects 30m

        The immediate prospects of solving real-world problems on near-term Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum hardware is largely dictated by device noise/errors. We have developed an alternative approach to error mitigation strategies based on quantum computed moments to improve energy/cost function results.

        Speaker: Lloyd Hollenberg
      • 2:30 PM
        Coherent magnetic and electric control of a single spin-7/2 donor atom in silicon 15m

        High spin donor atoms are objects of interest in semiconductor quantum architectures due to their large Hilbert space dimensionality. Here we demonstrate high fidelity coherent control over the 16-dimensional Hilbert space of a single 123-Sb atom implanted in silicon.

        Speaker: Arjen Vaartjes (PhD student)
      • 2:45 PM
        Deterministic ion implantation of donor spin qubits 15m

        The deterministic implantation of single donors in silicon is realised using ion beam induced charge detectors. This will enable the fabrication of arrays of donor spin qubits, required to scale up the promising quantum computing platform of donors in silicon.

        Speaker: Dr Danielle Holmes (UNSW, Sydney)
      • 3:00 PM
        Analog Control of the Diamond Quantum Processor 15m

        Different methods for compiling analog quantum control pulses for the diamond quantum processor, speed and error benefits of using analog control, and semi-analytical optimisation of analogue control pulses.

        Speaker: Sophie Stearn (The Australian National University)
      • 3:15 PM
        Expected Trapped-Ion Fast Gate Performance with Ultrafast Pulsed Lasers 15m

        Fast two-qubit phase gates with trapped-ions are feasible with an expected gate fidelity of 77.8% using a sequence of our ultrafast picosecond laser $\pi$-pulses. Such sub-microsecond gate operations support the development of scalable quantum computers.

        Speaker: Kenji Shimizu (Griffith unversity)
    • 2:00 PM 3:30 PM
      AIP: Quantum Science and Technology: QST 4 - Quantum Optics Room R6 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R6

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Glenn Solomon (University of Adelaide)
      • 2:00 PM
        Conceptual understanding enabled by efficient automated design of quantum optical setups 30m

        Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool for science, but an important question is how to extract true scientific understanding. We present a method that enables new understanding, and demonstrate its application to quantum photonics.

        Speaker: Dr Nora Tischler (Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia)
      • 2:30 PM
        Gaussian Boson Sampling experiments with displacements and time-bin encoding 15m

        Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) is a prominent model of quantum computing. We experimentally demonstrate both GBS with displacements and with time-bin encoding for the first time. The latter is used to search for dense sub-graphs.

        Speaker: Raj Patel (Imperial College London)
      • 2:45 PM
        Channel correction via heralded amplification 15m

        We employ heralded amplification and quantum state teleportation to implement a channel capable that corrects for loss in quantum communication. Our channel genuinely outperforms direct transmission through high amount loss without relying on postselection.

        Speaker: Sergei Slussarenko
      • 3:00 PM
        Noise mitigation via a quantum autoencoder 15m

        Quantum autoencoders use machine learning techniques to compress quantum data and are predicted to be useful for noise mitigation. Our ongoing work aims to experimentally demonstrate denoising of four-dimensional quantum states.

        Speaker: Nora Tischler
      • 3:15 PM
        New Methods for Noiseless Linear Amplification and Quantum Teleportation of Multiphoton Quantum States 15m

        We discovered a new practical method of perfectly amplifying and teleporting multiphoton light. It is shown to be better than established alternatives. This type of amplifier is useful for a huge variety of quantum technologies.

        Speaker: Joshua Guanzon (The University of Queensland)
    • 2:00 PM 3:30 PM
      7th International Workshop on Speciality Optical Fibres: WSOF 2 - Fibre Sensing 1 Hall A (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Hall A

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Michel Digonnet (Stanford University)
      • 2:00 PM
        Sensing Figures of Merit for Terahertz Photonic Light Cages 30m

        We discuss Figures of Merit for quantifying the sensing performance of hollow-core terahertz light cages with respect to free space propagation. Our results point to light cages as a way of improving terahertz phase sensing capabilities.

        Speaker: Alessandro Tuniz (The University of Sydney)
      • 2:30 PM
        Polymer Fiber Bragg Grating-embedded Artificial Skin for Tactile Force Detection and Contact Localization of Robotic Fingers 15m

        A tactile sensitive silicone-based artificial skin is fabricated on a fingertip model with embedded ZEONEX-based polymer Bragg gratings. Through tactile force feedback and the aid of machine learning, contact localization throughout the fingertip is achieved.

        Speaker: Mr Chern Yang Leong (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
      • 2:45 PM
        Fibre-based Optomechanical Acoustic Sensing 15m

        I will outline recent work towards developing a nanometer sized acoustic sensor based on 1D photonic crystals, which can be used for fibre-based optomechanical acoustic sensing.

        Speaker: Lauren McQueen
      • 3:15 PM
        Exploiting complex light transmission in multimode optical fibre for distributed sensing 15m

        We exploit the complex nature of light transmission through multimode fibre for distributed fibre temperature sensing. This is achieved by training a regression deep neural network for extracting distributed temperature information from fibre wavelength spectra.

        Speaker: Darcy Smith (Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia)
    • 3:30 PM 4:00 PM
      Afternoon tea 30m Exhibition Halls F & G (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Exhibition Halls F & G

      Adelaide Convention Centre

    • 4:00 PM 5:30 PM
      Army Quantum Tech Workshop Room R2 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R2

      Adelaide Convention Centre

    • 4:00 PM 5:30 PM
      Focus Session: Unveiling Emergent Physics of Novel Functional Materials with Neutron Scattering 2 Room R3 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R3

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Kirrily Rule (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation)
      • 4:00 PM
        Form and function: magnetic excitations in strongly correlated electron systems 30m

        In this talk I will present work on the magnetic excitations of two contrasting strongly correlated electron systems.

        Speaker: Siobhan Tobin (University of Oxford)
      • 4:30 PM
        From time crystals to time glasses 30m

        Here I briefly develop a theory of the experimental signature of a hypothetical time-crystal using neutron spectroscopy as a probe of the coherent dynamics in a lattice system, assuming a suitable driving mechanism such as intense terahertz light.

        Speaker: David Cortie
      • 5:00 PM
        Correlation of polar functionality and structure dynamics of metal-organic framework perovskites 30m

        To reveal the critical role of the A-site molecular ions in the polarization-related properties, we investigate three MOFPs that have the same Mg(HCOO)3− frameworks with different molecular ions: [CH3NH3][Mg(HCOO)3] (MA-MOF), [(CH3)2NH2][Mg(HCOO)3] (DMA-MOF), and [C(NH2)3][Mg(HCOO)3] (GUA-MOF).

        Speaker: Teng Lu (Research School of Chemistry, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia)
    • 4:00 PM 5:30 PM
      Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics: ANZCOP 5 - Atom Optics Room E2 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room E2

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop (The University of Queensland)
      • 4:00 PM
        From Atom Mirrors to Atom Chips to Time Crystals 30m

        We present an overview of recent research in our Atom Optics lab, including the development of magnetic optical elements for manipulating beams of ultra-cold atoms, magnetic microstructures, and time crystals using ultra-cold atoms bouncing on an atom mirror.

        Speaker: Prof. Peter Hannaford (Optical Sciences Centre, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia)
      • 4:30 PM
        Spin entanglement of a thermal atomic pair in an optical tweezer 15m

        We study spin-exchange collision as a route to thermally robust entanglement of two atoms in a microtrap. For probing it, we perform a Hong-Ou-Mandel experiment in which a Raman transition pulse plays the beam splitter role and compare with simulation.

        Speaker: Lucile Sanchez
      • 4:45 PM
        Statistics of Light Emitted from Ultra-Strongly Coupled Quantum Systems 30m

        In this work, we show that light emitted from generic Ultra-Strongly Coupled system demonstrates suprising, unbounded strong bunching of photons. We explain the origin of this effect, its dependence on driving mechanism, and discuss potential applications.

        Speaker: Mikolaj Schmidt (Macquarie University)
      • 5:15 PM
        Development of a Compact Clock for Small Satellite Applications 15m

        We report upon a prototype optical clock using a two-colour two-photon transition in Rubidium, toward developing a compact alternative for the next generation GNSS.

        Speaker: Emily Ahern
    • 4:00 PM 5:30 PM
      Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics: ANZCOP 6 - Biophotonics 2 Room E3 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room E3

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Irina Kabakova (University of Technology Sydney)
      • 4:00 PM
        Hyper-spectral imaging methodology for classification of embryo metabolism 30m

        We present an optical methodology for classifying embryo metabolism based on hyper-spectral imaging and artificial intelligence. It successfully distinguishes oocytes from old and young mice and control from metabolically altered embryos, with potential to empower embryologists in in-vitro fertilization clinics.

        Speaker: Dr Denitza Denkova (Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC))
      • 4:30 PM
        Towards pH Sensing in Hybrid Silk Materials for Wound Healing Applications 15m

        Research into a novel silk-hybrid material with capabilities of detecting pH changes in wound fluid via fluorescence spectroscopy may be implemented to assist in early detection of wound infection.

        Speaker: Laura Hung
      • 4:45 PM
        A wireless camera based optical elastography probe towards intraoperative breast cancer detection 15m

        We present a compact, wireless imaging probe using a cost-effective camera-based technique, stereoscopic optical palpation, towards intraoperative tumour assessment for breast cancer surgery. This probe could help surgeons effectively remove cancer during the operation, reducing the need for follow-up surgery.

        Speaker: QI FANG (The University of Western Australia)
      • 5:00 PM
        Real-Time Imaging of Nanoparticle Transcytosis in a Microfluidic Blood–Brain Barrier Model 15m

        We have developed a nanoparticle tracking method for direct observation of the in-vitro BBB penetration process, enabling in-depth studies of the mechanisms and pathways for nanoparticle agents to penetrate the blood-brain barrier.

        Speaker: Yueying Cao
      • 5:15 PM
        Smart silk membrane: Hybrid optical platform for wound sensing applications 15m

        Our work aims to develop a naturally extracted, transparent silk fibroin dressing, integrated with temperature and pH sensors, capable of monitoring early signs of infections, healing disruptions and scar formation via light-based measurements.

        Speaker: Dr Asma Khalid (RMIT University)
    • 4:00 PM 5:30 PM
      AIP: Atomic and Molecular Physics: ATMOP 3 - Atomic clocks Room R4 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R4

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Jacinda Ginges
      • 4:00 PM
        There and Back Again: Demonstration and Future of an Optical Atomic Clock Beyond the Laboratory 30m

        Optical atomic clocks combined with the proliferation of compact optical frequency combs, offer higher inherent timing stability versus their current microwave counterparts. We detail the development and demonstrations of our portable optical atomic clock technology with bespoke comb outside the laboratory under rugged conditions, and outline future directions.

        Speaker: Sarah Scholten (Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, University of Adelaide)
      • 4:30 PM
        New optical clocks based on Cu II, Yb III, Hf II, Hf IV, and W VI ions which may be used to search for dark matter and variation of the fine structure constant 15m
        • Study metastable excited states for these ions as clock transitions in optical clocks.
        • Calculating several atomic properties.
        • CI+SD and CIPT methods are used.
        • Black body radiation (BBR) found 10^-16-10^-18.
        • The enhancement coefficient reached K= 8.3.
        Speaker: Saleh Allehabi
      • 4:45 PM
        Carrier-Envelope-Phase Effect for Multiphoton and Tunneling Excitation 15m

        We investigate excitation of atoms using extremely short pulses of light with intensities above $10^{14}$ W/cm$^2$. The carrier-envelope-phase of the pulse modifies the interaction and marks a change in the dynamics.

        Speaker: Rohan Glover (The University of Adelaide)
      • 5:00 PM
        Radiokrypton Dating using Atom Trap Trace Analysis 15m

        Radioactive Noble Gas isotopes are ideal tracers of environmental processes. Due to their low abundances, a lack of measurements is a limitation in climate modelling. We present progress towards an Atom Trap Trace Analysis (ATTA) facility for overcoming this limitation.

        Speaker: Thomas Chambers (University of Adelaide)
    • 4:00 PM 5:30 PM
      Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices: COMMAD 3 - New Materials Growths and Device Fabrications Room R7 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R7

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Deb Kane
      • 4:00 PM
        Solid-state Nanopore: A Nanoelectronic Sensor for Single-Molecule Diagnostics 30m

        We present single-molecule level sensing of biomarkers by a solid-state nanopore sensor, a next-generation nanoelectronic sensor, as a diagnostic tool at ultra-low concentrations and volumes. We are now exploring protocols to operate in complex samples like blood and saliva.

        Speaker: Dr Buddini Karawdeniya (Australian National University)
      • 4:30 PM
        High performance HgCdTe Infrared Photodetectors for Sensing Applications 15m

        We present high performance HgCdTe infrared photodetectors for sensing applications in the mid-wave spectral band of 3~5 μm based on the n-on-p technology.

        Speaker: Nima Dehdashti (University of Western Australia)
      • 4:45 PM
        Fabrication challenges towards realization of MEMS-enabled spectrally tunable metasurface filter for long-wavelength infrared 15m

        We discuss fabrication challenges to realize plasmonic MEMS-enabled tunable LWIR filter consisting of a suspended perforated gold membrane with a vertically actuated thin silicon structure above it.

        Speaker: Oleg Bannik (The University of Western Australia)
      • 5:00 PM
        Fabrication of MEMS Silicon Nitride Photonic Switch 15m

        In this paper, we present the proof of concept of a fast silicon nitride photonic switch with MEMS actuation by using conventional lithography. Fabrication and optical characterisation of the device have been demonstrated successfully.

        Speaker: Shubhashree Swain (PhD Candidate, The University of Western Australia)
      • 5:15 PM
        Engineering of Solid-State Random Lasing in Nanoporous Photonic Crystals 15m

        Engineering of randome lasing in nanoporous photonic crystals

        Speaker: Abel Santos
    • 4:00 PM 5:30 PM
      AIP: Nuclear and Particle Physics: NUPP 3 Hall C (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Hall C

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Nicole Bell
      • 4:00 PM
        Weak charge of the proton 30m

        We report on a recent determination of the weak charge of the proton in parity-violating electron–proton scattering. The result is in excellent agreement with the standard model prediction, providing bounds on new physics interactions at the multi-TeV mass scale.

        Speaker: Ross Young
      • 4:30 PM
        Impact of nuclear structure on nuclear responses to WIMP elastic scattering 15m

        We highlight the potential uncertainties that may arise from the nuclear components of WIMP-nucleus scattering amplitudes, due to nuclear structure theory within the framework of the nuclear shell model.

        Speaker: Cedric Simenel
      • 4:45 PM
        The Quark-Gluon Interactions in Low Energies 15m

        The quark-gluon vertex is an important ingredients of one of the strong interaction. It is an essential ingredient in functional approaches to nonperturbative quantum chromodynamics. We will summarise the latest developments in quark-gluon vertex and its implications in hadron physics.

        Speaker: Ayse Kizilersu (University of Adelaide)
      • 5:00 PM
        B Meson Flavour Tagging via Quantum Machine Learning 15m

        We investigate employing quantum machine learning algorithms for B meson flavour tagging, an important component of the experiments at Belle-II which study heavy quark mixing, CP violation and the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe.

        Speaker: Maxwell West
      • 5:15 PM
        Direct measurement of hexacontatetrapole, E6 γ decay from Fe-53m 15m

        This presentation describes an experimental study of the highest-multipole transition known in nature$-$the proposed E6 $\gamma$-decay of $^{53m}$Fe$-$ and attempts to understand this rare process through Shell Model calculations performed in the full fp-shell model space.

        Speaker: AJ Mitchell
    • 4:00 PM 5:30 PM
      AIP: Quantum Science and Technology: QST 5 - Quantum Computing 3 Room R5 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R5

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Dr Ben Travaglione (DSTG)
      • 4:00 PM
        Recent breakthroughs in optical quantum computing with continuous variables 30m

        Optical quantum computing with continuous variables offers the tantalising promise of room-temperature operation and vast scalability. Here I present an overview of recent key advances in scalability and fault tolerance with this platform.

        Speaker: Nicholas Menicucci (Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology, School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia)
      • 4:30 PM
        Streamlined quantum computing with equivalent gate noise on macronode cluster state architectures 15m

        Cluster states in continuous-variable quantum computing come in various configurations. The authors demonstrated a significant drop in the required quality of a particular configuration. Here, we also present those improvements in other configurations.

        Speaker: Blayney Walshe (Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology, School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia)
      • 4:45 PM
        Quantum algorithm for time-dependent differential equations using Dyson series 15m

        We provide a quantum algorithm for time-dependent differential equations with only logarithmic dependence on the error and derivative. It can be applied to discretised partial differential equations for simulation of classical physics.

        Speaker: Dominic Berry (Macquarie University)
      • 5:00 PM
        Algorithms for quantum non-Markovianity 15m

        We provide a suite of methods to discover the causal model of a quantum process. It is the first complete toolkit for quantum causal discovery, taking into account experimental and computational limitations.

        Speaker: Christina Giarmatzi (University of Technology Sydney)
    • 4:00 PM 5:30 PM
      AIP: Quantum Science and Technology: QST 6 - Vacancy Centres Room R6 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R6

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Ben Sparkes (Defence Science and Technology Group)
      • 4:00 PM
        Diamond-based quantum sensors for in situ monitoring of spin active chemical species in molecular structures and single particles 15m

        Nitrogen Vacancies in diamond nanoparticles are employed for in situ monitoring of the magnetic state of photomagnetic materials down to the single particle level, the stability of molecular cages containing atomic Nitrogen, and spin active products of photocatalysis.

        Speaker: Melissa Mather (University of Nottingham)
      • 4:15 PM
        Towards compact quantum diamond nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers 15m

        We measure NMR signals via their modulation of the NV spin-state dependent red photoluminescence intensity using a time-resolved quantum heterodyne detection scheme.

        Speaker: Sepehr Ahmadi
      • 4:30 PM
        Quantum sensing with diamond spin maser at room-temperature 15m

        We present the theoretical study of diamond spin maser magnetic field sensor’s limitations considering a detailed photo-physics of the spins. We also present our progress towards the experimental realization of such a sensor.

        Speaker: Sarath Raman Nair (ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems and School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia)
      • 4:45 PM
        An Optimised Spin Readout Scheme for Quantum Sensors Based on Nitrogen Vacancy Centres in Diamond 15m

        We investigate the photo-physics of the nitrogen vacancy centre to improve the optical readout fidelity by designing a new decomposition technique to extract spin state information.

        Speaker: Di Wang (University of Melbourne)
      • 5:00 PM
        Extending the low-frequency limit of qubit noise spectroscopy beyond the inverse dephasing time 15m

        We propose and demonstrate a novel spectroscopy method on donor spin qubit in silicon, which resolves the challenge of low frequency noise estimation with fine resolution

        Speaker: Xi Yu (University of New South Wales)
      • 5:15 PM
        The bound-hole state of the NV- center in diamond 15m

        In this work, we introduce a semi-ab initio method for modelling the bound-hole states of the negatively-charged NV center (NV-). Our semi-ab initio approach can be readily adapted to other deep defects in semiconductors.

        Speaker: YunHeng Chen (Australian National University)
    • 4:00 PM 5:15 PM
      7th International Workshop on Speciality Optical Fibres: WSOF 3 - Fibre Lasers 1 Hall A (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Hall A

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Clemence Jollivet (Coherent-nufern)
      • 4:00 PM
        Can we produce high power visible light using doped silicate fibre? 30m

        There is growing interest in developing visible light-emitting fibre lasers. Currently, they rely on fluoride-fibre but for some transitions silicate fibre may be suitable. Here I review silicate-based fibre lasers and offer ideas for allowing them to generate visible light.

        Speaker: Prof. Stuart Jackson (Macquarie University)
      • 4:30 PM
        Characterisation of Erbium-Doped DFB Lasers Pumped Resonantly at 1480 – 1540 nm 15m

        Energising and interrogating distributed feedback fibre laser hydrophones in remote deployment scenarios requires management of the propagation loss, optical nonlinearity and judicious selection of the pump wavelength. We characterise the system for a range of pump wavelengths spanning from 1480-1540nm.

        Speaker: Nikita Simakov (DSTG)
      • 4:45 PM
        A 10 W narrow-linewidth thulium fibre master oscillator power amplifier 15m

        We describe the development of ultra-stable single-frequency 10W thulium fibre master oscillator power amplifiers at wavelengths between 1900nm and 2050nm, for gravitational wave detection. Environmental isolation and minimal wavelength drift is achieved using a two-stage temperature-controlled mount.

        Speaker: Ms Georgia Bolingbroke (University of Adelaide)
      • 5:00 PM
        Active Nanostructured Core Fiber for Two-Color Fiber Laser 15m

        We present the experimental study of active nanostructured fiber devoted to simultaneous laser emission at two wavelengths, 1040 nm and 1534 nm. The fiber core is formed with two types of nanorods doped with ytterbium and erbium ions.

        Speaker: Ryszard Buczynski
    • 7:30 PM 8:30 PM
      Public lecture: Tamara Davis Plenary Halls A/C (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Plenary Halls A/C

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      • 7:30 PM
        Cosmological Conundrums and the Dark Side of the Universe 1h

        What is expanding space? What came before the big bang? Is there an edge to space? What’s beyond the horizon of a black hole? What can the amazing images from the James Webb Space Telescope tell us?

        When I'm having a chat with family and friends, these are the questions I’m asked.

        So upgrade your repertoire for cocktail party conversation by learning about these and other cosmological conundrums. You’ll deep dive into the foundations of our cosmological model, mixed in with the latest updates on dark energy, black holes, and gravitational waves.

        Speaker: Tamara Davis (University of Queensland)
    • 7:30 AM 9:00 AM
      DE-GAP Breakfast 1h 30m Rooms R6/R7 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Rooms R6/R7

      Adelaide Convention Centre

    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Plenary: Plenary 2 Plenary Halls A/C (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Plenary Halls A/C

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Warwick Bowen (The University of Queensland)
      • 9:00 AM
        Silicon Photonic Quantum Computing – Towards Large-scale Systems 45m

        Many efforts around the world are now pursuing the ambitious goal of utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computing. Consistent themes are emerging across the field, as teams attempt to scale from existing small systems to the millions of qubits needed for useful applications. Systems partitioning, manufacturability, cooling power, networking, and control electronics are recurring challenges across all qubit technologies.

        PsiQuantum has pursued a photonic approach, based on qubits implemented using optical photons propagating in lithographically fabricated waveguides. In this talk we will give a broad overview of recent technical progress, framed against these major scaling challenges. We will describe progress at the micro, meso, and macro-scale, including high-throughput test, semiconductor manufacturing, device performance, integration, packaging, control, and cryogenic systems. We will also present new architectural results pertaining to fault-tolerant compilation.

        Speaker: Prof. Jeremy O'Brien (University of Western Australia and PsiQuantum)
      • 9:45 AM
        From Quantum in Pictures to practical Natural Language Processing, Music, and understandable AI 45m

        This talk requires no particular technical mathematics background, as I will talk entirely in terms of simple pictures. These are the pictures of my new book, "Quantum in Pictures" [1], which is aimed at the teenage enthusiast, and pretty much everyone else too - the book had a more technical predecessor [2].

        One finds the same pictures in natural language, and much of the high-level reasoning that goes on in our brain can be shaped according to those pictures. One consequence of this is that natural language really wants to live on a quantum computer, which is something that we meanwhile realised [3], and we have also made music with quantum computers [4]. All our software developed for doing so, lambeq and Quanthoven respectively, is freely available from GitHub, open-source, and well-documented and well-supported. You can have a go yourself!

        We show how these pictures also guide us towards a new form of natural language, one in which different languages all become the same. This in turns forms a new template for interpretable compositional AI.

        [1] Bob Coecke and Stefano Gogioso (December 2022) Quantum in Pictures. Quantinuum Pubs.

        [2] Bob Coecke and Aleks Kissinger (2017) Picturing Quantum Processes. Cambridge University Press.

        [3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2021/10/13/cambridge-quantum-makes-quantum-natural-language-processing-a-reality/

        [4] https://thequantuminsider.com/2021/11/19/roll-over-quanthoven-can-quantum-computers-be-programmed-to-become-quantum-composers/

        Speaker: Prof. Bob Coecke (Quantinuum Ltd.)
    • 10:30 AM 11:00 AM
      Morning tea 30m Exhibition Halls F & G (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Exhibition Halls F & G

      Adelaide Convention Centre

    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      Focus Session: Metaphotonics and Metasurfaces 1 Room R2 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R2

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Sergey Kruk (Australian National University)
      • 11:00 AM
        Chiral BIC Metaphotonics 30m

        We experimentally realize intrinsic chiral metasurfaces where the engineered slant geometry breaks both in-plane and out-of-plane symmetries. Our result achieves intrinsic chiral bound states in the continuum with near-unity CD of 0.93 and quality factor exceeding 2300 for visible frequencies.

        Speaker: Prof. Cheng-Wei Qiu (National University of Singapore)
      • 11:30 AM
        Graphene metamaterials for integrated photonic devices 30m

        We developed scalable graphene metamaterials that show attractive optical and thermal properties. Through patterning with advanced laser nanoprinting technique, functional photonic devices with ultrathin, light weight and flexible nature have been demonstrated promising exciting opportunities for integrated photonics.

        Speaker: Prof. Baohua Jia (RMIT University)
      • 12:00 PM
        Programmable Metasurfaces by Electrically Driven Transparent Micro-Heaters 15m

        We demonstrate for the first time the programmable tuning of dielectric inverse-designed metasurfaces made of silicon by electrically driven transparent micro-heaters. This approach made sub-millisecond switching time and individually tuning metasurfaces possible.

        Speaker: Khosro Zangeneh Kamali
      • 12:15 PM
        Lattice-induced optical chirality in all-dielectric resonant metasurfaces 15m

        We present a novel direction to enhance and control the degree of chirality in silicon-on-silica metasurfaces via an interplay between the nanoresonator symmetry and the symmetry of the metasurface lattice.

        Speaker: Mr Piyush Jangid (Australian National University)
    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics: ANZCOP 7 - Fibre and Communtications Room E2 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room E2

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Simon Fleming
      • 11:00 AM
        Dispersion-diversity optical fibers 30m

        Beyond high-capacity communications, space-division multiplexing fibers bring many advantages to optical and microwave signal processing, as not only space but also chromatic dispersion are introduced as new degrees of freedom.

        Speaker: Prof. Ivana Gasulla (ITEAM Research Institute, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, 46022, Spain)
      • 11:30 AM
        Spatial and Spectral High-Speed Optical Fibre Characterization 15m

        We built an apparatus that measures high-speed spectrally resolved mode transmission matrices. The field and modal coefficients were extracted at 3.8KHz, four times faster than the acquisition rate. This speed enables potential applications such as real-time imaging though multimode fibres.

        Speaker: Marcos Maestre Morote
      • 11:45 AM
        Lunar Communications with the ANU Optical Ground Station 15m

        We report on development of a transmitter and receiver for lunar optical communications. The instruments will be installed on the ANU Optical Communications Ground Station (OCGS) at Mt Stromlo Observatory in Canberra, Australia.

        Speaker: Michael Copeland (Australian National University)
      • 12:00 PM
        An Ultra-sensitive Fibre Frequency Reference for Short-term Laser Stabilisation 15m

        We present an all-optical-fibre frequency reference with a state-of-the-art short-term stability of 0.1 Hz/$\sqrt{\text{Hz}}$, limited by double Rayleigh backscattering. The system also reaches the fibre thermal noise limit at infrasonic frequencies.

        Speaker: Dr Chathura Bandutunga (Australian National University)
      • 12:15 PM
        Annealing effects in femtosecond laser-inscribed mid-infrared fibre Bragg gratings 15m

        Annealing effects in femtosecond laser-inscribed mid-infrared compatible fibre Bragg gratings (FBGs) are investigated via micro-reflectivity measurements. A process window for the fabrication of FBGs with improved thermal stability is identified.

        Speaker: Alex Fuerbach (Macquarie University)
    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics: ANZCOP 8 - Quantum Optics 1 Room E3 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room E3

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Sejeong Kim (University of Melbourne)
      • 11:00 AM
        Towards room temperature quantum squeezing of a mechanical resonator 30m

        Room temperature optomechanical squeezing would enable many applications in sensing and quantum computing. However, decoherence makes this challenging. I will present work which show large suppression of decoherence at low mechanical frequencies, opening a path towards room temperature quantum technologies.

        Speaker: Prof. Warwick Bowen (University of Quensland)
      • 11:30 AM
        Silicon photonics with T centre spin-photon devices 15m

        Spin-photon devices for on-chip silicon photonic quantum networks are demonstrated using the silicon T centre, a spin photon interface boasting long-lived spin qubits and spin-resolving optical transitions in a telecommunications band.

        Speaker: Daniel Higginbottom
      • 11:45 AM
        Optically detected spin transitions in an Er-doped whispering-gallery resonator 15m

        We present an erbium-doped optical resonator with a quality factor of $10^8$ and up to 1.2GHz of coupling to an optical transition. By probing the optical resonances we can measure the erbium's response to microwave excitation of its spin transition.

        Speaker: Luke Trainor (University of Otago)
      • 12:00 PM
        The Hanbury Brown and Twiss experiment as a tool for emitter localization 15m

        By simulating the Hanbury Brown and Twiss experiment results (second order correlation function) for a field of emitters, we study the effectiveness of using quantum correlations in emitter localisation.

        Speaker: Mr Jaret Vasquez-Lozano (RMIT)
      • 12:15 PM
        Correction of quantum phase errors with integrated photonic circuits 15m

        We introduce a protocol for detection and correction of arbitrary continuous phase errors in a multi-channel quantum transmission system by integrated waveguide circuits.

        Speaker: Jinyong Ma (Research School of Physics, The~Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia)
    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      AIP: Atomic and Molecular Physics: ATMOP 4 - Spin physics/correlations Room R4 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R4

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Andy Martin
      • 11:30 AM
        The exact properties of ultracold polarons 15m

        We investigate the nonlinear response of heavy impurity in ultracold Fermi gases and superfluid with a numerically exact approach. Our results are highly relevant for polaron physics.

        Speaker: Jia Wang (Swinburne University of Technology)
      • 11:45 AM
        Exploring Quantum Magnetism and Many-Body Localisation in a Dilute Gas of Ultracold Polar Molecules 15m

        We investigate quantum spin systems realised in a dilute gas of ultracold polar molecules pinned in a deep optical lattice. We discuss a novel disorder mechanism for engineering many-body localisation, and explore the system's non-equilibrium dynamics in one and two-dimensions.

        Speaker: Matthew Davis (The University of Queensland)
      • 12:00 PM
        Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions in a ferromagnetic superfluid 15m

        We explore finite-temperature phases of a spin-1 ferromagnetic Bose gas, identifying mass and spin BKT transitions, a vortex plasma phase, and novel critical scaling of spatial correlations.

        Speaker: Lewis Williamson
      • 12:15 PM
        Ultradilute Quantum Droplets 15m

        Ultradilute Quantum Droplets

        Speaker: Xia-Ji Liu (Swinburne University of Technology)
    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      AIP: Condensed Matter, Materials and Surface Physics: CMM 1 Room R3 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R3

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Prof. Gunther Andersson (Flinders University)
      • 11:00 AM
        Topological non-colinear magnetism in reduced sample dimensions 30m

        In this talk I will discuss near-surface small-angle neutron scattering (NS-SANS), performed slightly above the critical angle of reflection, as a route to overcome the shortcomings of transmission SANS for extremely small magnetic sample volumes in the thin-film limit.

        Speaker: Dr Grace Causer (Physik-Department, Technische Universität München)
      • 11:30 AM
        Spin gapless semiconductors --- an emerging quantum matter for next-generation spintronic and electronics technologies 30m

        I will introduce the concept of Spin gapless semiconductors (SGSs) and their unique features, highlighting the Dirac-type SGS which offers an ideal platform for massless spintronics and quantum anomalous Hall effect with a dissipationless edge state.

        Speaker: Prof. Xiaolin Wang (University of Wollongong)
      • 12:00 PM
        Radiation of Single Emitters Near Topological insulators 15m

        Our team from PUC Chile and RMIT studied how to amplify the small mixed reflection Fresnel coefficients for topological insulators via a third Mu-Metal sublayer and discovered a measurable Poynting vector deviation near its surface, key for its optical characterization.

        Speaker: Mr EITAN DVORQUEZ (Institute of Physics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.)
      • 12:15 PM
        Intrinsic, robust, and isolated flat bands present at half-filling in the minimal model of the superconducting metal-organic framework, Cu-BHT 15m

        An analytical model of the metal-organic superconductor, Cu-BHT, shows that its simplified lattice structure possesses three robust, degenerate flat bands at half-filling, which are narrower and more isolated than those of twisted-bilayer graphene.

        Speaker: Miriam Ohlrich (University of Queensland)
    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices: COMMAD 4 - Integration and Enabling Technologies Room R7 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R7

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Andreas Boes (RMIT University, University of Adelaide)
      • 11:00 AM
        Integration of MEMS for Scalable Programmable Photonic Circuits 30m

        Our recent advances in wafer-scale integration of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems in Silicon Photonics have shown high performance tuneable couplers, filters, switches, and phase shifters that provide an advanced technology basis for emerging applications requiring very large-scale photonic integration such as programmable photonics.

        Speaker: Niels Quack (The University of Sydney)
      • 11:30 AM
        Time-resolved photoionization detection of a single Er3+ ion in silicon 15m

        We investigate the charge dynamics following the optical excitation of a single erbium ion inside a silicon FinFET. We observe a latched charge signal that depends on gate voltage, optical intensity and optical pulse length.

        Speaker: Dr Gabriele de Boo (UNSW Sydney)
      • 11:45 AM
        Gold nanostars for sensitive molecular detection in biological fluids 15m

        Au-Ag nanostars, with enhanced plasmonic properties due to multiple “hot-spots” on the tips, stabilized in BSA@PBS buffer solution without formation of protein corona. The prepared nanostructures were stable in biological fluid and preserved their original enhanced optical activity.

        Speaker: Anastasiia Tukova
      • 12:00 PM
        A study of mechanical and optoelectronic properties of curved HgCdTe thin films 15m

        In this work, HgCdTe infrared detectors are taken as an example to simulate and study the mechanical and optoelectronic properties of HgCdTe infrared material under curved conditions in order to understand the feasibility of fabricating curved HgCdTe image sensors.

        Speaker: Shuo Ma
    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      AIP: Nuclear and Particle Physics: NUPP 4 Hall C (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Hall C

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Cedric Simenel
      • 11:00 AM
        Finite volume pionless effective field theory for nuclear systems 30m

        Finite-volume pionless effective field theory is an efficient framework with which to perform the extrapolation of finite-volume lattice QCD calculations of multi-nucleon spectra and matrix elements to infinite volume and to nuclei with larger atomic number. Recent progress is reviewed.

        Speaker: William Detmold
      • 11:30 AM
        GAMBIT update 15m

        I give an update on the Global And Modular BSM Inference Tool and show the latest results for a model where the gravitino and the lightest neutralinos and charginos are the only light sparticles in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model.

        Speaker: Csaba Balazs
      • 11:45 AM
        The emergent origin of mass 15m

        Where does your mass come from? The Higgs mechanism only accounts for 1% of the proton mass. We reveal how centre vortices connect emergent phenomena such as quark confinement and dynamical mass generation with the QCD vacuum state.

        Speaker: Waseem Kamleh (University of Adelaide)
      • 12:00 PM
        Testing the Quark Model on the Delta Baryon Spectrum 15m

        We present studies of the $\Delta$ baryon spectrum using lattice QCD and Hamiltonian Effective Field Theory. Our results suggest quark model-like states and meson-baryon two-particle states both contribute to the energy spectrum observed in experiment.

        Speaker: Liam Hockley (The University of Adelaide)
      • 12:15 PM
        Measurement of the branching fraction and $CP$ asymmetry of $B^{0} \to \pi^{0} \pi^{0}$ decays 15m

        We report branching fraction and $CP$ asymmetry measurements of the $B^{0}\to\pi^{0}\pi^{0}$ decay mode at Belle II using a data sample corresponding to $198\times10^{6} B\bar{B}$ pairs. This is comparable sensitivity with 1/4th of the Belle dataset.

        Speaker: Francis Pham
    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      AIP: Quantum Science and Technology: QST 7 - Quantum Measurement Room R5 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R5

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Nora Tischler
      • 11:00 AM
        Testing Quantum Mechanics Underground in the Cosmic Silence 30m

        We are experimentally investigating possible departures from standard quantum mechanics’ predictions at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory in Italy. We are searching for signals predicted by dynamical collapse models, and signals indicating a possible violation of the Pauli Exclusion Principle.

        Speaker: Dr Catalina Curceanu (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
      • 11:30 AM
        Imaging stars with quantum error correction 15m

        We present a general framework for using quantum error correction codes for protecting and imaging starlight received at distant telescope sites, which can enable long-baseline optical interferometry.

        Speaker: Dr Zixin Huang (Macquarie University)
      • 11:45 AM
        Testing Generalised Uncertainty Principles through Quantum Noise and Trajectories 15m

        We explore how generalisations of the Heisenberg principle arising from modified canonical commutation relations can produce significant effects in recent observations of optomechanical backaction noise, as well as in quantum trajectories of moments derived from general continuous position measurements.

        Speaker: Parth Girdhar (UNSW)
      • 12:00 PM
        Modulating the quantum noise of interacting exciton-polaritons in the spontaneous emission regime with a spectral filter 15m

        In this talk we will show how a spectral filter, together with a weak Kerr nonlinearity, can be used to tune, and improve, the photon statistics of the spontaneous emission of a strongly-confined exciton-polariton system.

        Speaker: Dr Thomas Volz (Macquarie University)
    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      AIP: Quantum Science and Technology: QST 8 - Quantum Computing 4 Room R6 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R6

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Maria Kieferova (University of Technology Sydney)
      • 11:00 AM
        Stabiliser subsystem decompositions for single- and multi-mode 30m

        We analyse the performance of Gottesman Kitaev Preskill quantum error correcting codes during gates and under realistic noise such as loss and dephasing using a new subsystem decomposition.

        Speaker: Prof. Andrew Doherty (The University of Sydney)
      • 11:30 AM
        Optimal scaling quantum linear systems solver via discrete adiabatic theorem 15m

        We prove a rigorous form of the adiabatic theorem for a discrete time evolutions. We use this discrete theorem to develop a quantum algorithm for solving linear systems that matches the known lower bound on the complexity of $\kappa$.

        Speaker: Pedro C.S. Costa (Macquarie University)
      • 11:45 AM
        Reducing Overhead for Quantum Advantage in Topological Data Analysis 15m

        Topological data analysis is an important way of understanding features of data, but can be exponentially hard classically. We present new ways of performing topological data analysis on a quantum computer with improved complexity.

        Speaker: Dominic Berry (Macquarie University)
      • 12:00 PM
        Signatures of critical dynamics in quantum phase transitions observed through digital quantum simulations 15m

        We present techniques, compatible with measurements in digital quantum simulations, for studying critical dynamics in quantum phase transitions, based on the Kibble-Zurek mechanism. In particular, we introduce a sample-and-hold protocol that enables the study of critical exponents in the system.

        Speaker: Juan Pablo Dehollain (University of Technology Sydney)
      • 12:15 PM
        Ground-state energy estimation of molecular systems on physical quantum computers 15m

        We discuss the challenges that must be overcome for variational quantum computing to be able to solve chemical systems of more than a few electrons in the context of the variational quantum eigensolver and the quantum computed moments method.

        Speaker: Michael Jones
    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      7th International Workshop on Speciality Optical Fibres: WSOF 4 - Advanced Fabrication 2 Hall A (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Hall A

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: John Ballato
      • 11:00 AM
        Hollow-Core Fibers for the Rise of Industrial Innovations 30m

        Silica hollow-core fibers (HCFs) are leading the way in advanced telecommunications and ultra- short pulse laser transmission. Chalcogenide HCFs will become the holy grail of CO2 laser transmission at 10.6 microns.

        Speaker: Dr Francois Chenard (IRflex Corporation)
      • 11:30 AM
        Fabrication and Properties of Intrinsically Low Nonlinearity Optical Fibers. 30m

        Abstract:
        This talk explores the fabrications processes and “many knobs” that must be turned to achieve low nonlinearity performance in modern optical fibers.
        Active optical fibers that exhibit intrinsically low nonlinearities such SBS supression or increased TMI thresholds is the end research goal for many groups. Materially, these phenomena are well understood, as is the method to achieve the target thresholds.
        Biography:
        Dr. Hawkins is a Research Assistant Professor (since 2020) at Clemson University and the Optical Fiber Fabrication Lab Director (since 2012). He received his Ph.D. 2020 in Materials Science and Engineering from Clemson University.

        Speaker: Dr Wade Hawkins (Clemson University)
      • 12:00 PM
        Mid-Infrared Polarization-Maintaining Photonic Crystal Fiber 15m

        A solid-core endlessly single mode mid-infrared polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber (PM-PCF) made of chalcogenide glass with an asymmetric pattern of longitudinal holes having different periods and diameters is presented. Simulation and experimental results are given.

        Speaker: FRANCOIS CHENARD
      • 12:15 PM
        3D printing Bullseye glass preform for fibre drawing 15m

        Additive manufacturing makes it possible to produce complex structures and individual pieces directly from the CAD file within short production times. This research focuses on a filament extrusion method, where the objects are directly printed from a soda-lime glass filament.

        Speaker: Xuanzhao Pan (School of Physical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia)
    • 12:30 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch and exhibition 1h 30m Exhibition Halls F & G (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Exhibition Halls F & G

      Adelaide Convention Centre

    • 12:30 PM 2:00 PM
      Special session: ANZOS Industry Forum Room E3 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room E3

      Adelaide Convention Centre

    • 12:45 PM 2:00 PM
      Special session: Tony Klein memorial Room E2 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room E2

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      • 12:45 PM
        Tony Klein and Geoff Opat – pioneers of neutron optics 25m

        This talk will review the seminal work, and enduring legacy, of quantum pioneers Tony Klein and Geoff Opat in devising and performing the neutron-interference experiment which observed fermionic quantum phase acquired upon 2$\pi$ rotation.

        Speaker: Lloyd Hollenberg
      • 1:10 PM
        The He-McKellar-Wilkins phase shift, atom interferometry tests — recent work related to Aharonov Casher and Klein, Opat et al. 25m

        In the dual HMW effect a topological phase emerges when electric dipoles pass around a line source of magnetic charges. When measured it also gave a much more precise measurement of the Aharonov Casher effect.

        Speaker: Bruce McKellar
      • 1:35 PM
        Atom Interferometry: Current technology and future directions from basic science to applications 25m

        Atom interferometry offers stable, compact, primary sensing that can advance applications in ground water mapping, mineral exploration, planetary exploration and inertial navigation among other fields. I describe recent advances at ANU in techniques and applications.

        Speaker: John Close (Australian National University)
    • 2:00 PM 3:30 PM
      Focus Session: Metaphotonics and Metasurfaces 2 Room R2 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R2

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Yuri Kivshar (Australian National University)
      • 2:00 PM
        Topological nanophotonic metasurfaces 30m

        Emulation of relativistic-like physics in photonic structures with Dirac spectrum has enabled observation of Klein tunneling and topological boundary modes in real and synthetic dimensions. We demonstrate another exciting emulation of trapped eigenstates of Dirac quasiparticles in photonic metasurfaces.

        Speaker: Daria Smirnova (Research School of Physics, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia)
      • 2:30 PM
        Metaphotonics-enabled mid-IR spectrometers for chemical classification 30m

        Mid-infrared spectroscopy has numerous applications. A host of new applications could be enabled by new types of mid-IR spectrometers with reduced size, weight, and cost. We will describe our recent work on a compact microspectrometer platform for chemical identification.

        Speaker: Prof. Kenneth Crozier (University of Melbourne)
      • 3:00 PM
        Metasurfaces for High Numerical Aperture Optical Signal Processing 15m

        Metasurfaces constructed of subwavelength periodic arrays of metal particles have been shown to possess asymmetric optical transfer function with a relatively high numerical aperture of ~0.5 enabling phase imaging of diverse transparent objects.

        Speaker: Niken Priscilla
      • 3:15 PM
        Real-time phase imaging via nanophotonic devices 15m

        Nanophotonic devices enable image processing with potential for biological live-cell imaging and wavefront sensing. Here we demonstrate the use metasurfaces and thin-films for all-optical visualisation of phase modulations in an optical field and their application to biological imaging.

        Speaker: Dr Lukas Wesemann (University of Melbourne, ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems)
    • 2:00 PM 3:30 PM
      Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics: ANZCOP 10 - Quantum Optics 2 Room E3 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room E3

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Mikolaj Schmidt (Macquarie University)
      • 2:00 PM
        Towards the simplest quantum computation 30m

        Based on the recent development of the quantum computer hardware, in
        this talk we present new quantum neural network models and show their
        performance for classification problems. We then discuss how far we can
        simplify such quantum computational systems.

        Speaker: Prof. Kae Nemoto (National Institute of Informatics, 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan)
      • 2:30 PM
        Resonant Spectroscopy of Blue Quantum Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride 15m

        Characterisation of spectral properties of blue SPEs in hBN at cryogenic temperatures. High-yield fabrication allows for extensive study of this defect class. Resonant excitation revealed phonon-broadened linewidth as well as Rabi oscillations.

        Speaker: Jake Horder (University of Technology Sydney)
      • 2:45 PM
        Superresolution measurements and the quantum Gouy phase in transverse-spatial N00N states 15m

        By structuring the spatial profile of single photons, we were able to demonstrate different types of quantum advantages in metrological applications. This method also enabled an investigation into a new type of quantum state evolution with possible future applications.

        Speaker: Mr Markus Hiekkamäki (Tampere University)
      • 3:00 PM
        Generation of quantum entangled photons from lithium niobate nonlocal metasurfaces 15m

        We report the first experimental generation of spatially entangled photon pairs from a metasurface incorporating a lithium niobate nonlinear thin film and the preparation of polarisation entangled states with a metasurface integrating two crossed metagratings.

        Speaker: Jinyong Ma (Research School of Physics, The~Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia)
      • 3:15 PM
        A scalable, high-bandwidth warm atom quantum memory using hollow-core photonic crystal fibers 15m

        Using rubidium-filled hollow-core fibres we have reduced the optical power requirements of a no noise, high-bandwidth quantum memory protocol by two orders of magnitude, a key step towards a large-scale fibre-based quantum information network.

        Speaker: Dr Ben Sparkes (Defence Science and Technology Group)
    • 2:00 PM 3:30 PM
      Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics: ANZCOP 9 - THz Photonics Room E2 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room E2

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Alessandro Tuniz (The University of Sydney)
      • 2:00 PM
        Terahertz waveguides: the fundamental component for next generation of communication 30m

        There is a rapid development in utilizing Terahertz frequencies for next generation of communications. In this talk, I will discuss how recent advances in photonics can facilitate low-loss and low-dispersion waveguides with exceptional bandwidth for terahertz.

        Speaker: Shaghik Atakaramians
      • 2:30 PM
        Terahertz Vector Beam Generation Enabled by Photonic Topological Metasurfaces 15m

        We propose and numerically investigate the mechanism of vector beams formation in terahertz spectral range via engineering the band structure of spatially inhomogeneous photonic metasurfaces supporting topologically trivial and non-trivial states.

        Speaker: Elizaveta Melik-Gaykazyan (Australian National University)
      • 2:45 PM
        Integratable 3D Printed Terahertz Horn Coupler 15m

        We design and demonstrate a 3D-printed horn coupler, improving the transmittance of a hybrid photonic crystal waveguide by more than 20dB, providing a convenient and economical way of customizing couplers for different waveguides and could be integrated in terahertz devices.

        Speaker: Mr Qigejian Wang (UNSW Sydney)
      • 3:00 PM
        Automation and measurement geometry of stimulated-polariton-scattering based THz spectrometric systems 15m

        Ultra-fast THz sources have been implemented into spectrometers offering small form-factor and broadband coverage. However, their low spectral power limits use to very thin samples. Here we demonstrate implementation of high power tunable SPS lasers into a spectrometric system.

        Speaker: Ondrej Kitzler (Macquarie University)
      • 3:15 PM
        Temperature-dependent synchrotron absorption measurements of MgO:LiNbO3 15m

        We report synchrotron absorption measurements for MgO:LiNbO3 over a wide range of wavenumbers and temperatures. Spectra reveal the existence of an unexpected mode at 3.15 THz at all temperatures which explains the crystal's difficulty of THz generation at higher frequencies.

        Speaker: Ameera Jose (MQ Photonics Research Centre, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University)
    • 2:00 PM 3:30 PM
      AIP: Atomic and Molecular Physics: ATMOP 5 - New physics in precision atomic experiments Room R4 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R4

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Igor Bray (Curtin University)
      • 2:00 PM
        On the hyperfine anomaly and atomic parity violation 30m

        Reporting on several of our recent works on the hyperfine anomaly and its importance in searches for new physics in precision atomic experiments.

        Speaker: Jacinda Ginges
      • 2:30 PM
        Accurate determination of the magnetic hyperfine anomaly in atomic cesium from muonic-atom experiments 15m

        We have used a combination of muonic-atom and atomic many-body calculations to extract magnetic hyperfine anomaly in caesium atom from muonic cesium measurements. Our result is important for cesium atomic parity violation studies.

        Speaker: George Sanamyan
      • 2:45 PM
        Dark matter detection via atomic interactions 15m

        Presentation of atomic excitation factors and calculated event rates for DM-electron scattering, and how they compare to the excess seen in the XENON1T experiment.

        Speaker: Ashlee Caddell (The University of Queensland)
      • 3:00 PM
        Testing atomic QED theory via a tuneout wavelength and transition measurements using a metastable helium Bose-Einstein condensate 15m

        This presentation will cover a number of atomic energy level measurements involving ultracold metastable helium atoms, including using a tuneout wavelength to probe atomic QED theory.

        Speaker: Sean Hodgman
      • 3:15 PM
        Coupled-Channel Approach to Proton Scattering on Molecular Hydrogen Using an Effective One-Electron Model 15m

        Total cross sections for all single-electron processes in proton scattering on molecular hydrogen have been calculated within a two-centre coupled-channel approach, providing improved agreement between theory and experiment for this challenging collisional system.

        Speaker: Corey Plowman
    • 2:00 PM 3:30 PM
      AIP: Condensed Matter, Materials and Surface Physics: CMM 2 Room R3 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R3

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Kirrily Rule (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation)
      • 2:00 PM
        Photoemission Electron Microscopy and Momentum Microscopy of 2D Transition Metal Chalcogenides 30m

        Photoemission is the most information rich and widely used techniques for the elucidation of the electronic structure, surface states and chemistry of materials. The NanoESCA III, recently commissioned in Flinders Microscopy and Microanalysis.

        Speaker: Sarah Harmer (Flinders University)
      • 2:30 PM
        Magnetic bandgap fluctuations in the intrinsic quantum anomalous hall insulator MnBi2Te4 30m

        In this talk I will discuss using low-temperature scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy to measure the magnetic gap in 5 SL MnBi2Te4.

        Speaker: Mark Edmonds (Monash University)
      • 3:00 PM
        Glowworm Capture Threads Studied by AFM 15m

        Tapping mode atomic force microscopy was used to reveal nano-scale features and material variation near the surface of capture threads of glowworm (Arachnocampa tasmaniensis). Unstretched and stretched threads are contrasted.

        Speaker: Prof. Deb Kane (Australian National University)
      • 3:15 PM
        Suppression of Phosphine-Protected Au9 Clusters Agglomeration on SrTiO3 Particles Using a Chromium Hydroxide Layer 15m

        The aim of this work is to investigate the inhibition of phosphine-protected Au9 clusters beneath a Cr(OH)3 overlayer to agglomerate under conditions of photocatalytic water splitting (i.e. UV irradiation).

        Speaker: Abdulrahman S. Alotabi (Flinders Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology)
    • 2:00 PM 3:30 PM
      Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices: COMMAD 5 - Nanoscale Photonics and Devices Room R7 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R7

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Nelson Tansu
      • 2:00 PM
        Development of 1550nm InAs on InP emitting QD Lasers 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Johann Peter Reithmaier (European Physical Society)
      • 2:30 PM
        Design of High-Power near-2-μm Pumped Laser Diodes for Ho Fiber Lasers 15m

        Holmium-doped high power fiber lasers operate at an eye-safe wavelength and have numerous applications. In this talk, we discuss a new method of optical pumping for this technology - using GaSb-substrate-based high power laser diodes emitting at 1950 nm wavelength.

        Speaker: Dominic Lane (The University of Adelaide)
      • 2:45 PM
        Quantum Confinement of Donor Molecule Systems in Silicon 15m

        Applying a comprehensive 20-band $sp^3d^5s^*$ tight-binding model with self-consistent field Hartree method to calculate energies of multi-electron states, we investigate the $D^-$ charging energies of donor molecules in silicon consisting of two phosphorus impurities in various orientations.

        Speaker: Mr A M Saffat-Ee Huq (The University of New South Wales)
      • 3:00 PM
        Measurement driven quantum clock implemented with a superconducting qubit 15m

        We theoretically and experimentally demonstrate a quantum clock implemented with a superconducting qubit and show the thermodynamic limit of the clock accuracy in the quantum regime is caused by the entropy production rate.

        Speaker: Xin HE
      • 3:15 PM
        Selectively-Grown InGaN/GaN Quantum Dots 15m

        We employ nanopatterning, via diblock co-polymer lithography, and selective area-MOVPE growth to achieve high-density InGaN/GaN quantum dots for UV applications

        Speaker: Luke Mawst
    • 2:00 PM 3:30 PM
      AIP: Nuclear and Particle Physics: NUPP 5 Hall C (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Hall C

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Prof. Raymond Volkas (The University of Melbourne)
      • 2:00 PM
        Ways of seeing: maximising the discovery potential of the Large Hadron Collider 30m

        I will show the sorts of physics model that are currently evading detection at the Large Hadron Collider, and will present new ideas for how to extend the reach of particle searches with the ATLAS and CMS detectors.

        Speaker: Martin John White (University of Adelaide (AU))
      • 2:30 PM
        On the determination of uncertainties in parton densities 15m

        We review various methods used to estimate uncertainties in parton distribution functions (PDFs), finding that utilizing a neural network on a simplified example of PDF data has the potential to inflate uncertainties.

        Speaker: Nicholas Hunt-Smith
      • 2:45 PM
        Sensitivity of the SABRE Experiment to WIMP Signals and Seasonal Backgrounds 15m

        This work examines the sensitivity of the upcoming SABRE South experiment to the annual modulation dark matter signal. We also consider the effect of a hemisphere-dependent seasonal background on direct detection experiments.

        Speaker: Kyle Leaver (University of Adelaide)
      • 3:00 PM
        Challenging nuclear vibrations with particle-gamma spectroscopy 15m

        This presentation will discuss preliminary attempts to perform Coulomb excitation of $^{124}$Te with the CAESAR array at the ANU as part of a larger investigation into the vibrational nature of near-spherical nuclei.

        Speaker: Martha Reece
      • 3:15 PM
        Fixed Field Accelerators for Particle Therapy 15m

        Fixed Field Accelerators offer potential advantages for particle therapy, however many challenges remain. We address the problem of resonance crossing during acceleration, showing that beam stability can be maintained by fixing the normalised focusing strength.

        Speaker: Mr Adam Steinberg (University of Melbourne / University of Manchester / Cockcroft Institute)
    • 2:00 PM 3:30 PM
      Precision and Quantum Sensing Workshop: PQS 1 - Keynote Session 1 Room R5 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R5

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Warwick Bowen (The University of Queensland)
      • 2:00 PM
        Quantum innovation in Australia 30m

        In this keynote address, I will discuss opportunities for quantum innovation in Australia, barriers that need to be overcome, and strategies to build a strong quantum ecosystem to drive research up the value chain.

        Speaker: Dr Cathy Foley (Chief Scientist of Australia)
      • 2:30 PM
        Quantum Sensors for Navigation and Mobile Gravimetry 30m

        Today’s challenge is to design compact, robust and mobile sensors which will lead to new generations of atomic sensors for mobile gravity mapping and GPS free navigation.

        Speaker: Philippe Bouyer (Institute d’Optique (Nouvelle Aquitaine Branch))
      • 3:00 PM
        Hybrid spin-phonon systems in diamond 30m

        I present diamond optomechanical systems with high mechanical and optical quality factors and long spin coherence times of the embedded, strain-coupled defect centers. Progress towards reaching high spin-phonon quantum cooperativity is discussed.

        Speaker: Ania Bleszynski Jayich (University of California, Santa Barbara)
    • 2:00 PM 3:30 PM
      AIP: Quantum Science and Technology: QST 9 - Quantum Computing 5 Room R6 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R6

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Andrew Doherty (The University of Sydney)
      • 2:00 PM
        Training quantum neural networks with an unbounded loss function 30m

        In this work, we examine the assumptions that give rise to barren plateaus in quantum neural networks and show that an unbounded loss function can circumvent the existing no-go results.

        Speaker: Dr Maria Kieferova (University of Technology Sydney)
      • 2:30 PM
        Quantum Enhanced Robustness in Adversarial Machine Learning 15m

        Machine learning models are susceptible to adversarial examples - inputs to the model which have been manipulated in order to confuse it. We study the vulnerability and resiliency of quantum classifiers to such inputs.

        Speaker: Mr Maxwell West (The University of Melbourne)
      • 2:45 PM
        Point Exchange Invariant and Automatically Generated Feature Maps in Quantum Support Vector Machines for Practical Applications 15m

        Inspired by 3D imagining problems we investigate methods of quantum encodings that are invariant to permutations of points in the original input for collections of 3D points (point cloud) data, within the context of a particle physics application.

        Speaker: Jamie Heredge
      • 3:00 PM
        An Evolutionary Algorithm for the Circuit Synthesis of Arbitrary Quantum States 15m

        We present a method – genetic algorithm for state preparation (GASP) – which generates low-depth quantum circuits for initialising a quantum computer in a specified quantum state.

        Speaker: Floyd Creevey
    • 2:00 PM 3:30 PM
      7th International Workshop on Speciality Optical Fibres: WSOF 5 - Online/Hybrid Session Hall A (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Hall A

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Clarissa Harvey (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)
      • 2:00 PM
        Specialty optical fibers for dispersion management in the spectral ranges of normal and anomalous material dispersion 30m

        The report discusses novel all-glass optical fibers designs for dispersion management and its applications.

        Speaker: Svetlana Aleshkina
      • 2:30 PM
        Polarization Maintaining Anti-Resonant Hollow Core Fiber 30m

        We summarize our recent results on design, fabrication and characterization of polarization maintaining anti-resonant hollow core fiber. Loss of 5.6 dB/km and phase birefringence of $1.8\times 10^{-5}$ is achieved.

        Speaker: Yingying Wang (Institute of Photonics Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China)
      • 3:00 PM
        Efficient 2.8 μm Er3+-doped ZBLAN fiber laser pumped at 1.7 μm 15m

        An efficient mid-infrared Er3+-doped fluoride fiber laser operating at 2.8 μm pumped by a single-mode laser at 1.7 μm has been proposed and experimentally demonstrated for the first time.

        Speaker: Mr Junxiang Zhang (Tianjin University)
      • 3:15 PM
        200 km-long single-ended random fiber laser and sensor with ULLF 15m

        Record-long (200 km) single-ended random fiber laser and sensor, which can be used for safety monitoring of long-haul powerlines, are proposed and demonstrated based on combination of high-order random lasing pump and ultra-low-loss fiber, for the first time.

        Speaker: Dr Yunjiang Rao (UESTC)
    • 3:30 PM 4:00 PM
      Afternoon tea 30m
    • 4:00 PM 5:30 PM
      Focus Session: Metaphotonics and Metasurfaces 3 Room R2 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room R2

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Sergey Kruk (Australian National University)
      • 4:00 PM
        Enhanced light emission and harvesting via disordered plasmonic metasurfaces 30m

        Disordered arrays of plasmonic colloids provide a means for broadband optical absorption, due to equipartition of energy and convergence of internal mode lifetimes. We examine such systems from the viewpoint of energy harvesting and enhanced light extraction.

        Speaker: Stefan A. Maier (Monash University)
      • 4:30 PM
        Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion: from Micro- to Nanoscale 30m

        The most common mechanism for entangled photon generation in optics is the second-order nonlinear process of spontaneous parametric down-conversion. I will provide a brief overview of recent developments in the area, moving from photonic chips to nanophotonics.

        Speaker: Alexander Solntsev (University of Technology Sydney)
      • 5:00 PM
        Inverse-Designed Metasurfaces for High-Efficiency Sum Frequency Generation 15m

        We developed an inverse design scheme to optimise the design of nonlinear metasurfaces for sum-frequency generation with any combination of optical wavelengths, achieving a high efficiency exceeding unpatterned films by several orders of magnitude.

        Speaker: Neuton Li
      • 5:15 PM
        Topologically optimized metasurface for characterizing two-photon distinguishability in a single shot 15m

        We propose and fabricate a static dielectric metasurface that enables single-shot characterization of the distinguishability between two photons with high transmission efficiency and tolerance to measurement noise.

        Speaker: Jinyong Ma (Research School of Physics, The~Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia)
    • 4:00 PM 5:30 PM
      Focus Session: Strong Interaction Dynamics and the Pursuit of Fundamental Symmetries Hall C (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Hall C

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Ross Young
      • 4:00 PM
        Nuclear matrix elements from lattice QCD 30m

        I will discuss how first-principles lattice QCD calculations are yielding new insights into the structure and interactions of nuclei.

        Speaker: Phiala Shanahan
      • 4:30 PM
        Hadron resonances in coupled-channel scattering from quantum chromodynamics 30m

        Recent developments have enabled the computation of hadron resonance properties from scattering amplitudes determined from lattice Quantum Chromodynamics. We summarise this theoretical approach and compare with recent data from hadron physics experiments.

        Speaker: David Wilson (University of Cambridge)
      • 5:00 PM
        Particle and Nuclear Physics at the MeV scale in Australia 30m

        We propose a Time Projection Chamber (TPC) to measure (e+e-) production from proton induced nuclear reactions. TPC measurements provide 200 times more sensitivity than previous experiments enabling world-leading limits for New Physics searches and novel Nuclear Physics investigations.

        Speaker: Martin Sevior
    • 4:00 PM 5:30 PM
      Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics: ANZCOP 11 - Optoacoustics Room E2 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

      Room E2

      Adelaide Convention Centre

      Convener: Michael Steel
      • 4:00 PM
        Confining sound in superfluids via optomechanics 30m

        The coupling of light with a mechanical degree of freedom is ususally limited to exciting mechanical modes that are defined by the structure being used. We are working towards a regime where light can be used to define mechanical modes.

        Speaker: Mr Raymond Harrison (The University of Queensland)
      • 4:30 PM
        Inducing guided long-wavelength acoustic waves in a non-suspended waveguide 15m

        Inducing forward Brillouin scattering (FBS) in non-suspended waveguides is challenging because the required acoustic waves have long wavelengths, typically exceeding the acoustic mode cutoff. Here, we investigate the extent to which an acoustic mode can be confined in non-suspended platforms.

        Speaker: Choon Kong Lai
      • 4:45 PM
        Superfluid Optomechanical Dissipative Solitons 15m

        Experimental results of high amplitude superfluid helium-4 waves and nonlinear phenomena including cnoidal waves, pulse trains and superfluid optomechanical dissipative solitons are presented, agreeing with the recently observed optomechanical dissipative solitons in solid state.

        Speaker: Walter Wasserman
      • 5:00 PM