ANU Researchers on 'ABC New Inventors' show

Professor Hans Bachor, Kate Wagner and Seiji Armstrong appeared on the ABC New Inventors with their recent experimental work on quantum entanglement.

Quantum entanglement is a key feature of any future quantum technology. It will allow us to design better machines that can give us quantum logic and faster and more secure communication.

ACQAO investigates entanglement of photons, laser beams and atoms. One of the challenges is to package as much entanglement as possible into a single laser beam, to send more complex information from A to B. We invented and built a device that creates, transports and detects two entangled patterns in one beam (Nature Photonics, Vol.3, 2009, p 399-402). This technique has made the apparatus much simpler and easier to operate.

This is one important step, with many more to follow, on the road to advanced quantum technologies. Similar to the transition from analog to digital, from waveforms to BITs, we cannot begin to imagine all the new things we will be able to do with Q-bits and quantum correlations.

The show ACQAO ABC New Inventors show was aired on Wednesday 12 August 2009.

To celebrate ACQAO winning this segment of the ABC New Inventors an alumni and student function with pizza and refreshments was served before the live viewing of the show. This function was a great success with over 140 people attending.

On the night, I spoke with several Alumni, who thought the whole 'Pizza & Beer' idea was fantastic and they certainly appreciated the invitation.

The technical presentaton by Professor Hans Bachor before the ABC New Inventors program presented alumni and students with some background to the technology that was about to be discussed in the TV show.

It was very pleasing to hear that everyone enjoyed themselves and said they would attend similar events in the future.

Friends meeting and enjoying their evening

Alumni, Students, Pizza, Beer and friends

Posted 3 August 2009