News - Equs Legacy

Kicking off way back in 2013, and running until mid-2025, the EQUS blog kept members, stakeholders and partners informed on Centre activities ranging from research discoveries to recognition of members’ achievements or public outreach reports and highlights.

Thank You

29 May 2025

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A quantum masterclass: Macquarie experience inspires the next generation

28 May 2025

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Celebrating a quantum legacy: EQUS Showcase events

28 May 2025

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Training grant enables global engagement and research growth

28 May 2025

Tim Hirsch takes science to the stage with laughter

28 May 2025

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Lasers in space, at the quantum limit

28 May 2025

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Cracking the code at Iceberg Quantum: The translation journey, from lab to launch

28 May 2025

Quantum computing: Real-world applications

27 May 2025

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Quantum Futures museum exhibition

22 May 2025

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Study finds quantum computing in healthcare faces significant challenges, but there is promise

9 May 2025

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Dr Sarath Raman Nair and Dr Lachlan Rogers on 2SER Breakfast radio

5 May 2025

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Empowering women and gender-diverse individuals

8 April 2025

Iceberg Quantum: A translational research success story

2 April 2025

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Quantum Australia Conference 2025

31 March 2025

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TRP Workshop: Empowering scientists for industry transition

31 March 2025

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Exploring careers beyond academia

31 March 2025

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Redback Systems shines at Photonics West with cutting-edge spectrometer innovations

31 January 2025

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EQUS researchers discover grapes could help quantum sensors

23 January 2025

Prof. Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop awarded 2025 SPIE Gold Medal

23 January 2025

Autumn school on fabrication for quantum technology

1 January 2025

EQUS welcomes back Xanthe Croot

31 December 2024

Supporting gender minorities in 2024

31 December 2024

Employing quantum phenomena for faster, more efficient machine learning

17 December 2024

Quantum filtering to find a needle hidden in a million haystacks

1 December 2024

Outreach trip to Tasmania: Engaging young minds in quantum science

14 November 2024

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EQUS researchers featured on the cover of Applied Physics Letters

27 October 2024

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Callum Sambridge wins John Carver Physics Prize

24 October 2024

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EQUS Chief Investigator Michael Biercuk named one of the Top 100 Innovators of 2024

21 October 2024

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From Space to Earth: EQUS collaborator contributes to NASA’s Heart Health Innovation

14 October 2024

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EQUS PhD student Stefan Zeppetzaur featured in Futurum Careers

14 October 2024

Revealing hidden details with precision microwave spectroscopy

14 October 2024

EQUS researchers awarded funding advancing quantum innovation in Queensland

10 October 2024

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EQUS CI Michael Tobar recognised for his outstanding contributions to physics

1 October 2024

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Dr. Ting Rei Tan Named a winner of the NSW Young Tall Poppy Science Award 2024

30 September 2024

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EQUS researchers featured in Futurum

30 September 2024

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EQUS Deborah Jin Fellow, Salini Karuvade, featured in Futurum

12 September 2024

Better chemical simulation with bosons

6 September 2024

Chief Investigator Michael Biercuk a finalist for Paul Shetler Disrupter of the Year 2024

5 September 2024

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Congrats to team Lee on their National Science Quiz win!

30 August 2024

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Wrap-up: National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip

29 August 2024

AIP Physics in the Pub, Sydney

27 August 2024

Empowering future physicists: Highlights from the Girls-Only Physics Event!

26 August 2024

Qx | Queensland’s Advanced Technologies Future

14 August 2024

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StemXX Sisters community meet and greet

9 August 2024

Quantum sensitivity meets cosmic mystery

2 August 2024

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EQUS Research Fellow Chris Baker awarded 2024 ARC Future Fellowship

1 August 2024

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EdQuantum delegation meets EQUS

31 July 2024

Groundbreaking milestone with infrared laser signals

17 July 2024

Liquid Instruments scores $15 million from Breakthrough Victoria

4 July 2024

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DUALITY – an artistic exploration of quantum science

30 May 2024

Future Science Talks, featuring Yuktee Gupta

27 May 2024

Mike Tobar awarded honourable mention in international essay competition

20 May 2024

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Emma Paterson featured on Innovation Nation

7 May 2024

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Jeremy Bourhill chats neutrinos on ABC Breakfast

29 April 2024

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Announcing the winners of the 2023 EQUS Quantum Art Competition

15 April 2024

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Final three winners of the Quantum Shorts flash fiction competition

15 April 2024

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EQUS champions joint Centre of Excellence mentoring platform

31 March 2024

Fault-tolerant topological computing

11 March 2024

Compact, tunable, room-temperature maser for time-keeping and sensing

28 February 2024

Wrap-up: Science communications and media training workshop

21 February 2024

Can we automate genius for quantum error correction?

13 February 2024

Wideband-tunable low-phase-noise oscillators for 5G communications

31 January 2024

Photon cascades: Towards an optical computing future

15 January 2024

Quantum spin-offs: UWA research wins are gaining critical mass

11 January 2024

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IEEE UFFC Distinguished Lecturer 2021–2023: Mike Tobar

8 January 2024

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News: 9th Symposium on Frequency Standards and Metrology wrap-up

8 January 2024

EQUS Annual Workshop 2023 round-up!

22 December 2023

Taming errors in Majorana qubits

12 December 2023

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Perfect stirring in a Bose-Einstein condensate

6 December 2023

Quantum West: Translation & Industry Showcase wrap-up

5 December 2023

Topological Order on the Pacific Ocean 2023 wrap-up

30 November 2023

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Quantum Thermodynamics Down Under 2023 wrap-up

30 November 2023

6th International Conference on Quantum Error Correction wrap-up

30 November 2023

Brisbane Quantum Shorts screening and Q&A wrap-up

14 November 2023

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Ultralow-power laser tracking for space missions

9 November 2023

Australia’s most high-tech CELLAR

8 November 2023

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Recent funding success for EQUS members

3 November 2023

Sixth international conference on quantum error correction

3 November 2023

Sydney Quantum Shorts screening and Q&A wrap-up

30 October 2023

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16 October 2023

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Quantum technologies for dark matter detection and beyond

29 September 2023

Layer codes: Optimal 3D quantum error correction

28 September 2023

Randomness-free tests of quantumness

25 September 2023

Superconducting quantum devices

18 September 2023

2023 National Science Week round-up

15 September 2023

National Science Week: National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip

15 September 2023

National Science Week: National Science Quiz

15 September 2023

National Science Week: Shirty Science

15 September 2023

EQUS welcomes Deborah Jin Fellows

31 August 2023

#teamEQUS does CONASTA

31 July 2023

Emergence: an artistic exploration of quantum science

19 July 2023

Introducing the quantum capacitance parametric amplifier

7 July 2023

Atomic clock engineering

1 July 2023

EQUS members awarded Moon to Mars Initiative Demonstrator Mission grants

29 June 2023

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Melbourne Quantum Shorts screening and Q&A wrap-up

10 June 2023

Wavefront curvature atomic beam clock model for high-accuracy portable clocks

31 May 2023

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Media release: Quantum and dark matter scientists win road trip funding

24 May 2023

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Australia’s first National Quantum Strategy

12 May 2023

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Resonating with the generalised uncertainty principle

7 May 2023

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News: EQUS laboratories launch

30 April 2023

EQUS welcomes new Scientific Advisory Committee members

12 April 2023

Announcing the winners of the Quantum Shorts film festival

4 April 2023

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Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 EQUS Quantum Art Competition

2 April 2023

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Microwave–optical transduction for hybrid quantum technologies

1 March 2023

EQUS Annual Workshop 2022 round-up!

10 January 2023

Success for EQUS researchers in 2023 Discovery Project grant round

24 November 2022

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The physics of learning machines

23 November 2022

Efficient quantum state tracking in noisy environments

16 November 2022

Ben McAllister wins 2022 UWA Aspire Award

8 November 2022

EQUS researchers awarded new Centre of Excellence

7 November 2022

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Uncovering the massive quantum mysteries of black holes

1 November 2022

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Quantum and dark matter featured in ABC Religion & Ethics

1 November 2022

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National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip round-up

29 October 2022

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Spectral sensitivity of dissimilar electromagnetic haloscopes to axion dark matter and high-frequency gravitational waves

17 October 2022

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Spectral sensitivity of dissimilar electromagnetic haloscopes to Axion dark matter and high-frequency gravitational waves

16 October 2022

EQUS start-up secures $3 million in seed funding

12 October 2022

Alain Aspect awarded 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics

11 October 2022

Funding success for EQUS researchers

30 September 2022

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EQUS Director appointed to National Quantum Advisory Committee

26 September 2022

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Analogue quantum simulations of chemical dynamics

30 July 2022

This Australian experiment is on the hunt for an elusive particle that could help unlock the mystery of dark matter

26 July 2022

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EQUS Deputy Director awarded Health Research Accelerator grant

24 July 2022

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Quantised mass–energy effects in an Unruh–DeWitt detector

20 July 2022

Imaging stars with quantum error correction

7 July 2022

Australia set to help solve the biggest mystery in the Universe

6 July 2022

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Efficient quantum state tracking in noisy environments

30 June 2022

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Modified coherence of quantum spins in a damped pure-dephasing model

10 June 2022

COVID kidney injury twice as common as diagnosed

6 June 2022

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Efficient, ever-ready quantum memory at room temperature for single photons

3 June 2022

EQUS researchers prepped to navigate the future with Advanced Navigation

27 May 2022

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Fractons in flatland

16 May 2022

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Angle-of-arrival variability of retroreflected lasers despite atmospheric reciprocity

29 April 2022

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Imaging stars with quantum error corrections

12 April 2022

Three stories win prizes in the Quantum Shorts flash fiction competition

5 April 2022

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EQUS researchers awarded 2021 Linkage Project

31 March 2022

Effect of environment on the interferometry of clocks

25 March 2022

Efficient, ever-ready quantum memory at room temperature for single photons

23 March 2022

On the hunt for new substrates for superconducting circuits

11 March 2022

Vai Photonics recognised for innovation

6 March 2022

News: 1kQubit research flagship launched

4 March 2022

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Searching for invisible axion dark matter

1 March 2022

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The XP stabiliser formalism

28 February 2022

Superfluids provide new insight into turbulence

16 February 2022

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EQUS Annual Workshop 2021 round-up!

31 January 2022

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EQUS research named 2021 Breakthrough of the Year

28 January 2022

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EQUS researchers awarded 2022 Discovery Project and DECRA grants

4 January 2022

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Success for EQUS researchers in 2022 LIEF funding round

22 December 2021

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Congratulations to UWA Rising Stars

3 November 2021

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Clear as Quantum: new EQUS podcast launches

5 October 2021

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Quantum-enhanced DNA sequencing takes top prize at EQUS hackathon

22 September 2021

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Discovery paves way for improved quantum devices

1 September 2021

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WA Quantum and Dark Matter Road Trip

31 August 2021

Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 EQUS Quantum Art Competition

26 August 2021

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World-first detector reports rare events

24 August 2021

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EQUS researcher awarded Future Fellowship

11 August 2021

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EQUS researchers shine light on careers in quantum optics

29 July 2021

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Laser-frequency stability for next-generation geodesy missions

28 July 2021

EQUS researcher joins national media program

26 July 2021

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Tensor network codes

23 July 2021

EQUS researcher wins Young Tall Poppy Science Award

21 July 2021

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EQUS PhD student wins EFTF–IFCS Best Student Paper

21 July 2021

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EQUS researcher attends “once-in-a-lifetime” Nobel Laureate Meeting

12 July 2021

EQUS Director awarded Laureate Fellowship

7 July 2021

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EQUS CI awarded Distinguished Lecturer for frequency control

1 July 2021

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EQUS researchers take out top physics awards

28 June 2021

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Precision magnetometry with diamond

21 June 2021

Australian researchers create quantum microscope that can see the impossible

9 June 2021

The ‘second quantum revolution’ is almost here. We need to make sure it benefits the many, not the few

8 June 2021

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Evading the uncertainty principle in quantum physics

7 May 2021

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Helping symmetric quantum systems survive in an imperfect world

27 April 2021

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‘Stickiness’ key to better diagnostics and pharmaceuticals

26 April 2021

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Finding quvigints in a quantum treasure map

10 March 2021

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Quantum Shorts festival announces three film winners

5 March 2021

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Optical wrench wins international optics medal

12 February 2021

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Beyond qubits: Next big step to scale up quantum computing

1 February 2021

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Record-breaking laser link could provide test of Einstein’s theory

22 January 2021

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EQUS researcher named in 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australians awards

29 October 2020

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Need to be in two places at once? It may be possible

14 October 2020

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Moon to Earth: WA to host space communications station

12 October 2020

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Australian Quantum Vortex team a finalist for 2020 Eureka Prize

29 September 2020

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Stephen Bartlett elected Fellow of the APS

29 September 2020

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Young physicist ‘squares the numbers’ on time travel

24 September 2020

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EQUS researchers star in Q&ARC video series

21 September 2020

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Winners of our quantum art competition announced!

17 September 2020

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Vortex top-hats emerge in superfluids

8 September 2020

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EQUS researcher part of winning Sciathon team

8 September 2020

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Beating noise via superposition of order

24 August 2020

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Improved modelling of nuclear structure in francium aids searches for new physics

4 August 2020

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A force from nothing used to control and manipulate objects

3 August 2020

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Commentary on national security and quantum technology

14 July 2020

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EQUS researchers join editorial team for PRX Quantum

30 June 2020

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EQUS researcher awarded entrepreneurial scholarship

29 June 2020

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Quantum physics provides a way to hide ignorance

23 June 2020

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Understanding hardware errors helps stabilise quantum tech

16 June 2020

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Winners of the Quantum Shorts flash fiction competition announced!

9 June 2020

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CSIRO launches quantum roadmap

26 May 2020

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Success again for EQUS researchers in National Measurement Institute awards

21 May 2020

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Results of Quantum Games competition announced!

15 April 2020

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EQUS STEM Ambassadors to help put science on national agenda

4 March 2020

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Two EQUS researchers to represent Australia at Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting

4 March 2020

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International Day of Women and Girls in Science: Social Media Activity

6 February 2020

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No storm in a teacup – it’s a cyclone on a silicon chip

19 December 2019

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Quantum paradox experiment may lead to more accurate clocks and sensors

9 October 2019

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Scholarships announced for 2019 Science meets Parliament

10 September 2019

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Physicists find quantum states of time induced by gravity

21 August 2019

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Physicists discover family members of Schrödinger’s cat

11 July 2019

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Researchers verify 70-year-old theory of turbulence in fluids

28 June 2019

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EQUS research students receive research prizes at Macquarie University

23 May 2019

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Scientists ‘paint’ Mona Lisa on a quantum canvas

17 May 2019

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Prizes awarded to three Quantum Shorts films

15 April 2019

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Prize backs physicist’s data security quest

24 March 2019

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Sydney united to build a Quantum Harbour City

13 March 2019

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NSW Government backs Sydney Quantum Academy

9 March 2019

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EQUS Chief Investigator awarded Pawsey Medal 2019

28 February 2019

Sydney physicists use code to reduce quantum error in logic gates

28 February 2019

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Snapshot technique helps scientists ‘hear’ the quantum world

21 February 2019

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New approach for converting ordinary laser light into quantum light

19 February 2019

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Dr Jacqui Romero: L’Oréal International Rising Talent

13 February 2019

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Pioneering quantum tech program launched at UQ

7 February 2019

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Quantum ‘hack’ to unleash computing power

1 February 2019

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Unmanned vehicles to take quantum leap

31 January 2019

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Ultra ultrasound to revolutionise technology

14 January 2019

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Interdisciplinary team maps the vestibular system of a zebrafish

19 November 2018

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Keeping an eye on very active Schrödinger’s cats

12 October 2018

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Quantum weirdness in ‘chicken or egg’ paradox

3 September 2018

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Studying movement without moving: Optical physics and neuroscience research wins Eureka prize

30 August 2018

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Quantum leap for Einstein’s scientific principle

14 August 2018

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First-ever quantum simulation of chemical bonds with trapped ions

24 July 2018

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EQUS CI Halina Rubsinztein-Dunlop awarded an Order of Australia

12 June 2018

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EQUS Postdoc Awarded Young Scientist Award in Italy

1 June 2018

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Physicists invent flux capacitor, break time-reversal symmetry

24 May 2018

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New satellites with ANU laser technology launched into space

24 May 2018

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EQUS alum receives award for excellence in measurement research

22 May 2018

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Pickin’ up good quantum vibrations

18 May 2018

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Gamers help physicists in massive experiment to challenge Einstein

9 May 2018

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EQUS student to compete in FameLab National Final

3 May 2018

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Announcing the winner and runner-up for Quantum Games

1 April 2018

Prizes awarded in the Quantum Shorts flash fiction competition

29 March 2018

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Physicists create algorithm to discover quantum cause-effect relations

6 March 2018

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Vibrant diversity of science to be shared with Australian Parliament

4 February 2018

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