William Irvine James Franck Institute, 929 E 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637 wtmirvine [at] uchicago.edu |
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Papers | Pleated crystals on curved surfaces W.T.M. Irvine V.Vitelli and P.M. Chaikin To appear in Nature (2010) |
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Linked and knotted beams of light, conservation of helicity and the flow of null electromagnetic fields W.T.M. Irvine Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 43 385203 (2010) |
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Lock and key colloids S. Sacanna, W.T.M. Irvine, P.M. Chaikin and D.J. Pine Nature 464, 575-578 (2010) Reported on in: Reconfigurable Colloids, Nature News and Views, Vol. 464, 496 (2010) Colloidal Assembly, Nature Materials Research Highlights, Vol. 9, 378 (2010) The key to colloid assembly, Chemistry World (2010) Locks and keys build tiny structures, Physics World (2010) Dai colloidi nuovi materiali auto-assemblanti, Le Scienze (2010) Lock and Key Colloids and Method of Manufacture, Patent Pending. |
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Polychromatic photonic quasicrystal cavities S.M. Thon, W.T.M. Irvine and D. Bouwmeester Physical Review Letters 104 243901 (2010) |
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Calculating the Modes of Diffraction Limited Optical Cavities D. Kleckner, W.T.M. Irvine, S. Oemrawsingh and D. Bouwmeester Physical Review A 81 043814 (2010) |
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Strong coupling through optical positioning of a quantum dot in a photonic crystal cavity S.M. Thon, M.T. Rakher, H. Kim, J. Gudat, W.T.M. Irvine and D. Bouwmeester Applied Physics Letters 94, 111115 (2009). |
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Linked and knotted beams of light, W.T.M.Irvine and D. Bouwmeester, Nature Physics, Vol. 4, 716–720 (2008) Featured on the September 2008 cover Reported on in: Light's Ring-around the rosey} Optics & Photonics Focus, Vol. 3 (2008) A Knot of Light} Science News (2008) Physicists hope to tie light beams in knots} PhysOrg (2008) |
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High Finesse Opto-Mechanical Cavity with a Movable Thirty-Micron-Size Mirror, D. Kleckner, W. Marshall, M.J.A. de Dood, N. Dinyari B. Pors, W.T.M. Irvine and D. Bouwmeester, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 96, 173901 (2006). |
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Strong coupling between single photons in semiconductor micro-cavities, W.T.M. Irvine, K. Hennesey and D. Bouwmeester, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 96, 057405 (2006). . |
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Bloch theory of entangled photon generation in non-linear photonic crystals, W.T.M. Irvine, M.J.A. de Dood and D. Bouwmeester, Physical Review A, Vol. 72, 043815 (2005) |
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Realisation of Hardy's thought experiment, W.T.M. Irvine, J.H. Hodelin, C. Simon and D. Bouwmeester, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 95, 030401 (2005) |
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Nonlinear Photonic Crystals as a Source of Entangled Photons, M.J.A. de Dood, W.T.M. Irvine and D. Bouwmeester, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 93, 040504 (2003). Reported on in: From patchy particles to entangled photons, Nature Materials, Vol. 3, 582 (2004). |
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Optimal Quantum Cloning on a Beam-splitter, W.T.M. Irvine, Antia Lamas Linares, M.J.A. de Dood and D. Bouwmeester, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 92, 047902 (2003). Also: Virtual Journal of Quantum Information. |
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Robust Long-Distance Entanglement and a Loophole-Free Bell Test with Ions and Photons, C.Simon and W.T.M. Irvine, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 91, 110405 (2003) |
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Generalised Bell Inequalities With Parametric Down-Conversion, Antia Lamas Linares, W.T.M. Irvine, John C. Howell and D. Bouwmeester, Quantum Information and Computation on line, Vol. 3}, Special pp471-479 (2003). |
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Quantum jumps in singly ionized magnesium, H.F. Powell, M.A. van Eijkelenborg, W. Irvine, D.M. Segal and R.C. Thompson, Journal of Physics B, Vol. 34, 1-12 (2001). |
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In the news |
From patchy particles to entangled photons, Nature Materials, Vol. 3, 582 (2004) |
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Light's Ring-around the rosey, Optics & Photonics Focus, Vol. 3 (2008) |
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A Knot of Light, Science News (2008) |
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Physicists hope to tie light beams in knots, PhysOrg (2008) |
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Reconfigurable Colloids, Nature News and Views, Vol. 464, 496 (2010) |
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Colloidal Assembly, Nature Materials Research Highlights, Vol. 9, 378 (2010) |
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The key to colloid assembly, Chemistry World (2010) |
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Locks and keys build tiny structures, Physics World (2010) |
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Dai colloidi nuovi materiali auto-assemblanti, Le Scienze (2010) |
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