Annual Report 2011

In our first year of operation we have made some important first steps to realise this vision, described in more detail in this document. Experiments at The University of Queensland have shown how to control the motion of macroscopic silica mechanical resonators with light. EQuS CIs at Macquarie University, in collaboration with our Partner investigators in Germany, have shown how to exploit the quantum properties of defects in diamond to engineer a new kind of magnetometer. Theoretical work involving collaborations across the Centre have pointed the way to a new form of quantum matter capable of processing information.