
Scheme to realize accelerating photon production from vacuum [from H. Wang and M. Blencowe, Comms. Phys., 4, 128 (2021)].
My work as a theoretical physicist centres on addressing the fundamental question concerning how our macroscopic, classical world of everyday experience emerges from the microscopic, counterintuitive quantum world. Relevant investigations range from collaborating with experimentalists (Alex Rimberg, Dartmouth; Keith Schwab, Caltech) and theorists (Andrew Armour, Nottingham) on mesoscale electro(opto)mechanical systems that straddle the micro-macro worlds ... to constructing fundamental theories on the possible role of gravity as an enforcer of classicality in the macroscopic domain.
Physics and Astronomy
S. Kanhirathinghal, B. L. Brock, A. J. Rimberg, and M. P. Blencowe, Charge sensitivity of a cavity-embedded Cooper pair transistor limited by single-photon shot noise, Journal of Applied Physics 130, 114401 (2021); DOI: 10.1063/5.0062421
Hui Wang and Miles Blencowe, Coherently amplifying photon production from vacuum with a dense cloud of accelerating photodetectors, Communications Physics 4, 128 (2021), DOI: 10.1038/s42005-021-00622-3
M. P. Blencowe and H. Wang, Analogue gravity on a superconducting chip, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 378, 20190224 (2020), DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2019.0224
William F. Braasch, Jr., Oscar D. Friedman, Alexander J. Rimberg, and Miles P. Blencowe, Wigner current for open quantum systems, Physical Review A 100, 012124 (2019). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.012124
Book project (Oxford University Press): Mechanical Systems in the Quantum Regime.
Gravitationally induced decoherence and entanglement.
Analogue relativistic quantum field and spacetime effects in superconducting circuits.
Quantum dynamics of strongly nonlinear, low noise superconducting circuits.
Quantum versus classical dynamics of ultrastrong coupling opto(electro)mechanical systems.
Quantum music