Outreach, University of Oxford, 2018
Physics coordinator for the science outreach soceity Oxford Hands On Science (OxHOS). I helped organise and run interactive science events in Oxford and around the UK, including an annual roadshow that visited 15 different schools over three weeks.
Admissions, University of Oxford, 2020
Delivered mock interviews and worked as a tutor on the “Preparing for the PAT” course offered by the university to help students prepare for admissions tests.
Published in Physical Review A, 2019
This paper is about suppressing four-wave mixing noise within a Raman quantum memory. We demonstrate the potential for single-photon storage using this scheme.
Recommended citation: Thomas, S. E., Hird, T. M., Munns, J. H., Brecht, B., Saunders, D. J., Nunn, J., Walmsley, I. A. & Ledingham, P. M. (2019). Raman quantum memory with built-in suppression of four-wave-mixing noise. Physical Review A, 100(3), 033801. https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.100.033801
Published in Physical Review A, 2021
This paper is about velocity selective optical pumping to overcome motionally induced dephasing within quantum memories in atomic vapours.
Recommended citation: Main, D., T. M. Hird, S. Gao, E. Oguz, D. J. Saunders, I. A. Walmsley, and P. M. Ledingham. (2021)"Preparing Narrow Velocity Distributions for Quantum Memories in Room-Temperature Alkali Vapours". Physical Review A, 103(4), 043105. https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.103.043105
Published in Optics Letters, 2021
This paper demonstrates coherent storage and retrieval of pulsed light using the atomic frequency comb quantum memory protocol in a room temperature alkali vapour.
Recommended citation: Main, D., T. M. Hird, S. Gao, I. A. Walmsley, and P. M. Ledingham (2021) "Room temperature atomic frequency comb storage for light". Optics Letters 46, 2960-2963 https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.103.043105
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Undergraduate, Corpus Christi College and Somerville College Oxford, 2019
Academic, Magdalen College School, 2020
Provide weekly supervision and pastoral support of 6th form students completing an extended research project. Responsible for the preparation of students for the Physics Olympiad and university admission exams in natural sciences and engineering.