Department of Fundamental & Theoretical Physics

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• 13 Active
• 91 Finished

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  Geometry of Character Varieties

  Onn, U. (PI), Baraglia, D. (CoI), Hekmati, P. (CoI), Kamgarpour, M. (CoI) & Le, I. (CoI)

  27/02/25 → 26/02/28

  Project: Research

• Topological wave manipulation in hybrid integrated platforms

  Smirnova, D. (PI)

  30/06/24 → 30/06/28

  Project: Research

  • Photonics 100%
  • Two-Dimensional Material 100%
  • 2D Material 50%
  • Matter Wave 33%
  • Magnetic Field 33%

• Ultra- fast Entangling Gates with Trap Potentials Manipulation

  Hope, J. (PI) & Haines, S. (CoI)

  12/01/24 → 12/01/26

  Project: Research

  • Quantum Computer 100%
  • Scalability 100%
  • Quantum Algorithm 33%
  • Quantum Gate 33%
  • Success Probability 33%

• Higher-order nonlinearities in metasurfaces

  Kruk, S. (PI) & Zentgraf, T. (CoI)

  1/01/24 → 31/12/25

  Project: Research

  • Metasurface 100%
  • Harmonics 50%

• Chiral metaphotonics for sensing and nonlinear optics

  Kivshar, Y. (PI)

  1/01/24 → 31/12/25

  Project: Research

  • Chirality 100%
  • Nonlinear Optics 50%
  • Metamaterial 33%
  • Amino Acids 33%
  • Nanophotonics 16%

• Chiral resonant metaphotonics

  Kivshar, Y. (PI)

  30/09/23 → 24/09/26

  Project: Research

  • Chirality 100%
  • Polarized Light 50%
  • Amino Acids 50%
  • Metamaterial 50%
  • Amino Acid 25%

• Advanced Quantum Sensors for Next-Generation Sensing Applications

  Haine, S. (PI)

  7/08/23 → 6/08/27

  Project: Research

  • Theoretical Physic 100%
  • Quantum Gravity 100%
  • Gravimetry 100%
  • Quantization (Signal Processing) 50%

• Establishing the National Space Qualification Network (NSQN)

  Haine, S. (PI) & Close, J. D. (CoI)

  8/04/22 → 10/05/27

  Project: Research

  • Test Facility 100%
  • Gateway 50%
  • Australia 25%

• ITRG - Tailored metasurfaces generating, programming and detecting light

  Neshev, D. (PI), Beck, F. (CoI), Choi, D. (CoI), Fu, L. (CoI), Jagadish, C. (CoI), Kluth, P. (CoI), Lam, P. (CoI), Lu, Y. (CoI), Ostrovskaya, E. (CoI), Shadrivov, I. (CoI), Sukhorukov, A. (CoI), Tan, H. (CoI) & Yin, Z. (CoI)

  1/10/21 → 31/03/26

  Project: Research

• Metaphotonics and metasurfaces for disruptive sensing technologies

  Kivshar, Y. (PI) & Altug, H. (CoI)

  2/08/21 → 30/06/26

  Project: Research

  • Metasurface 100%
  • Cosmetics 100%
  • Nanoparticle 50%
  • Dielectric Material 50%
  • Nanophotonics 33%

• A Quantum Matterwave Vortex Gyroscope for Ultrastable Rotation Sensing

  Close, J. D. (PI), Braasch, M. (CoI), Campbell, G. (CoI), Haine, S. (CoI), Imhof, E. (CoI), Larsen, M. (CoI), Sackett, C. (CoI), Szigeti, S. (CoI) & White, A. (CoI)

  29/03/21 → 31/12/25

  Project: Research

• ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems

  Neshev, D. (PI), Aharonovich, I. (CoI), Alu, A. (CoI), Atwater, H. (CoI), Bhaskaran, M. (CoI), Botman, A. (CoI), Crozier, K. (CoI), Fainman, Y. (CoI), Faraon, A. (CoI), Faraone, L. (CoI), Fu, L. (CoI), Gray, M. (CoI), Herschbach, N. (CoI), Herz, L. (CoI), Iacopi, F. (CoI), Jagadish, C. (CoI), Johnston, M. B. (CoI), Joyce, H. J. (CoI), Martyniuk, M. (CoI), Odom, T. (CoI), Padilla, W. (CoI), Qiu, C.-W. (CoI), Roberts, A. W. (CoI), Shadrivov, I. (CoI), Sriram, S. (CoI), Sukhorukov, A. (CoI), Tan, H. (CoI), Toth, M. (CoI) & Wee, A. (CoI)

  1/01/21 → 31/12/27

  Project: Research

  • Optics 100%
  • Optical Network 100%
  • Optical Systems 50%
  • Nanoscale 50%
  • Future Technology 25%

• ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics

  Barberio, E. (PI), Stuchbery, A. (PI), Bell, N. F. (CoI), Bertone, G. (CoI), Boehm, C. (CoI), Boehm, C. (CoI), Calaprice, F. P. (CoI), Diemoz, M. (CoI), Dolan, M. (CoI), Duffy, A. (CoI), Garrett, R. F. (CoI), Goryachev, M. (CoI), Hill, G. (CoI), Hopkins, P. F. (CoI), Hotchkis, M. A. (CoI), Ianni, A. (CoI), Jackson, P. (CoI), Jakobs, K. (CoI), Lane, G. (CoI), Marinaro, D. (CoI), Mould, J. (CoI), Prokopovich, D. A. (CoI), Rybka, G. (CoI), Simenel, C. (CoI), Slatyer, T. (CoI), Spooner, N. (CoI), Taylor, G. N. (CoI), Thomas, A. (CoI), Tims, S. (CoI), Tobar, M. (CoI), Urquijo, P. (CoI), Volkas, R. R. (CoI), White, M. (CoI), Wilczek, F. (CoI) & Williams, A. G. (CoI)

  14/08/20 → 14/08/27

  Project: Research

  • Particle Physics 100%
  • Dark Matter 50%
  • Particle Astrophysics 33%
  • Quantum Physics 16%
  • Physics 16%
• Finished

  Novel light-controlled liquid-crystal-based metamaterials for dynamic wave control

  Shadrivov, I. (PI)

  1/01/24 → 31/12/24

  Project: Research

  • Metamaterial 100%
  • Liquid Crystal 50%
  • Dielectric Material 25%

• Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy Facility

  Neshev, D. (PI), Schmidt, T. W. (PI), Aharonovich, I. (CoI), Amal, R. (CoI), D’Alessandro, D. M. (CoI), Ekins- Daukes, N. (CoI), Kabakova, I. (CoI), Lakhwani, G. (CoI), Nielsen, M. P. (CoI), Smirnova, D. (CoI) & Tayebjee, M. (CoI)

  1/01/24 → 30/06/25

  Project: Research

  • Infrared Spectroscopy 100%
  • Photonics 100%
  • Nanophotonics 100%
  • Quantum Technology 100%

• Nonlinear Imaging via sum-frequency generation (SFG) and Four Wave Mixing (FWM)

  Neshev, D. (PI), Xu, L. (PI), Camacho Morales, R. (CoI), Haggren, T. (CoI), Jagadish, C. (CoI), Rahmani, M. (CoI), Smirnova, D. (CoI), Tan, H. (CoI) & Ying, C. (CoI)

  30/05/23 → 31/03/24

  Project: Research

• Nonlinear spectroscopy at the nanoscale from extreme ultraviolet to infrared

  Kruk, S. (PI), Kivshar, Y. (CoI), Lee, S. (CoI) & Shirokikh, N. (CoI)

  3/03/23 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research

  • Nanoscale 100%
  • Spectrometer 100%
  • Regional Geography 100%
  • Pulsed Laser 100%
  • Investment Return 50%

• Australian 3D Beam Measurement Platform from Radio Waves to Terahertz Waves

  Shadrivov, I. (PI)

  1/01/22 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

• Disruptive nanotechnology to control light

  Kruk, S. (PI)

  1/07/21 → 30/06/24

  Project: Research

  • Optical Device 100%
  • Semiconductor Diodes 100%
  • Photoelectric Emission 50%
  • Transistor 50%
  • Nanoscale 25%

• DIELECTRIC METASURFACES FOR NONLINEAR AND QUANTUM OPTICS

  Kivshar, Y. (PI)

  1/03/21 → 31/08/23

  Project: Research

• Nonlinear topological photonics

  Kivshar, Y. (PI)

  1/07/20 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research

  • Optical Device 100%
  • Photonics 50%
  • Optical Technology 33%
  • Photonic Devices 33%
  • Light Guide 33%

• Active topological photonics with all-dielectric nanostructures

  Smirnova, D. (PI)

  15/11/19 → 14/11/22

  Project: Research

  • Nanostructure 100%
  • Dielectric Material 100%
  • Nanocrystalline Material 100%
  • Dielectrics 100%
  • Photonics 100%

• Construction of SABRE, Australia's first full-scale dark matter detector

  Lane, G. (PI), Barberio, E. (CoI), Calaprice, F. P. (CoI), Duffy, A. (CoI), Hill, G. (CoI), Mould, J. (CoI), Prokopovich, D. A. (CoI), Simenel, C. (CoI), Stuchbery, A. (CoI), Thomas, A. (CoI), Urquijo, P. (CoI), Wallner, A. (CoI) & Williams, A. G. (CoI)

  7/08/19 → 6/08/22

  Project: Research

  • Dark Matter 100%
  • Dark Matter Detectors 100%
  • Physics 33%

• Quantum tunnelling of composite systems

  Simenel, C. (PI)

  1/06/19 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research

  • Nucleosynthesis 100%
  • Nuclear Fusion 50%
  • Physics 50%
  • Nuclear Reaction 50%

• Creating high flux degenerate quantum atomic sources with active feedback

  Hope, J. (PI), Haine, S. (CoI) & Szigeti, S. (CoI)

  11/02/19 → 31/12/24

  Project: Research

  • Elastic Scattering 100%
  • Atomic Structure 100%
  • Building Block 100%
  • Physics 50%
  • Quantum Technology 50%

• Topological and nonreciprocal nanophotonics

  Kivshar, Y. (PI), Kruk, S. (CoI) & Wang, L. (CoI)

  1/01/19 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

• Broadband quantum optical spectroscopy with nonlinearintegrated circuits

  Sukhorukov, A. (PI), Geiss, R. (CoI), Kumar, P. (CoI), Pertsch, T. (CoI), Saravi, S. (CoI), Sergeev, S. (CoI), Titchener, J. (CoI) & Wang, K. (CoI)

  1/01/18 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research

  • Infrared Region 100%
  • Optical Spectroscopy 100%
  • Realization 50%
  • Electronic Circuit 50%

• 24th Canberra International Physics Summer School 2018 (CIPSS18)

  Williams, E. (PI), Batchelor, M. (CoI), Davis, J. A. (CoI), Hope, J. (CoI), Ostrovskaya, E. (CoI), Robins, V. (CoI), Simenel, C. (CoI) & Ward, R. (CoI)

  6/09/17 → 31/07/18

  Project: Research

  • Australians 100%

• Beam steering by Huygens metasurfaces for sensing applications

  Neshev, D. (PI), Dreise, T. (CoI), Hattori, H. (CoI), Kivshar, Y. (CoI), Powell, D. A. (CoI), Shadrivov, I. (CoI) & Spielmann, T. (CoI)

  16/06/17 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

• Full scale detector system for the first Australian dark matter experiment

  Barberio, E. (PI), Stuchbery, A. (PI), Calaprice, F. P. (CoI), Duffy, A. (CoI), Hill, G. (CoI), Jackson, P. (CoI), Lane, G. (CoI), Mould, J. (CoI), Simenel, C. (CoI), Taylor, G. N. (CoI), Thomas, A. (CoI), Urquijo, P. (CoI), Vignoli, C. (CoI), Wallner, A. (CoI) & Williams, A. G. (CoI)

  15/06/17 → 30/06/19

  Project: Research

  • Dark Matter 100%
  • Physics 25%

• High bandwidth, high speed, terahertz optical sampling and analysis system

  Lewis, R. (PI), Shadrivov, I. (PI), Arnold, M. (CoI), Conibeer, G. (CoI), Dowd, A. (CoI), Lee, A. (CoI), Lim, Y. L. (CoI), Nghiem, L. (CoI), Pask, H. (CoI), Rakic, A. (CoI), Rozenfeld, A. B. (CoI), Wang, X. (CoI) & Zhang, C. (CoI)

  15/06/17 → 14/06/18

  Project: Research

  • Electromagnetic Spectra 100%
  • Science and Technology 100%
  • Spectrometer 100%
  • Physical Process 100%
  • Systems Analysis 100%

• A Multiple Ion Beam Facility for Microscopy and Nanofabrication

  Bradby, J. (PI), Palomba, S. (PI), Palomba, S. (PI), Bagnall, D. (CoI), Cairney, J. (CoI), Cairney, J. (CoI), Chen, V. (CoI), James, D. (CoI), Ringer, S. P. (CoI), Ringer, S. P. (CoI), Shadrivov, I. (CoI), Toth, M. (CoI) & wallace, G. (CoI)

  29/05/17 → 28/05/18

  Project: Research

  • Building Material 100%

• Facility for exploring light-matter interactions in space, time and energy

  Fuhrer, M. (PI), Ostrovskaya, E. (PI), Bach, U. (CoI), Bansal, V. (CoI), Davis, J. A. (CoI), Gu, M. (CoI), Hattori, H. (CoI), Juodkazis, S. (CoI), Kalantar-zadeh, K. (CoI), Kivshar, Y. (CoI), Neshev, D. (CoI), Schiffrin, A. (CoI), Spiccia, L. (CoI) & Stoddart, P. (CoI)

  24/04/17 → 23/04/18

  Project: Research

  • Charge Transfer Complex 100%
  • Ultrafast Spectroscopy 100%
  • Two-Dimensional Material 100%
  • Spectroscopy Technique 100%
  • 2D Material 100%

• Functional metasurfaces and metadevices

  Shadrivov, I. (PI)

  1/01/17 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

  • Metamaterial 100%

• Nonlinear and tunable dielectric metasurfaces

  Neshev, D. (PI) & Kruk, S. (CoI)

  1/01/17 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Topologically nontrivial electromagnetic states

  Kivshar, Y. (PI), Miroshnichenko, A. (CoI), Powell, D. (CoI) & Shadrivov, I. (CoI)

  30/09/16 → 29/09/19

  Project: Research

• Investigate the distribution of eigenvalues of products of matrices using the theory of integrable systems.

  Bazhanov, V. (PI) & Mangazeev, V. (CoI)

  1/07/16 → 8/09/17

  Project: Research

  • Form Part 100%
  • Eigenvalue 100%

• MeriSTEM: Modular educational resources in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

  Hope, J. (PI) & Barden, E. (CoI)

  1/07/16 → 31/12/17

  Project: Research

  • Secondary Education 100%
  • Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics 50%
  • Educational Resource 50%
  • STEM in Secondary Education 50%
  • Flipped Classroom 50%

• Tunable metamaterials for terahertz and infrared applications

  Shadrivov, I. (PI), Martyniuk, M. (CoI), Powell, D. A. (CoI) & Silva, B. (CoI)

  1/06/16 → 31/05/19

  Project: Research

  • Metamaterial 100%

• Developing a complete understanding of nuclear fission

  Hinde, D. (PI), Nazarewicz, W. (CoI) & Simenel, C. (CoI)

  1/06/16 → 31/05/19

  Project: Research

  • Nuclear Fission 100%
  • Physics 50%

• Detector system for the First Australian Experiment on Dark Matter

  Barberio, E. (PI), Stuchbery, A. (PI), Duffy, A. (CoI), Jackson, P. (CoI), Lane, G. (CoI), Mould, J. (CoI), Simenel, C. (CoI), Taylor, G. N. (CoI), Thomas, A. (CoI), Urquijo, P. (CoI), Wallner, A. (CoI) & Williams, A. G. (CoI)

  25/05/16 → 25/05/17

  Project: Research

• Quantum Phase Transitions In- and Out-of-Equilibrium in Optical Lattices

  Hodgman, S. (PI), Guan, X.-W. (CoI), Guan, X.-W. (CoI) & Truscott, A. (CoI)

  6/03/16 → 5/03/19

  Project: Research

  • Optical Lattice 100%
  • Physics 50%
  • High Temperature Superconductors 50%

• Ultrafast laser system for time-resolved imaging and nonlinear nano-photonics

  Neshev, D. (PI), Lee, S. (CoI), Ostrovskaya, E. (CoI), Shadrivov, I. (CoI) & Truscott, A. (CoI)

  10/04/15 → 31/12/15

  Project: Research

  • Photonics 100%
  • Optoelectronic Device 100%
  • Ultrafast Lasers 100%

• Terahertz beam steering based on tunable nano-antennas

  Hattori, H. (PI), Neshev, D. (PI), Karouta, F. (CoI), Liu, L. (CoI), Powell, D. (CoI) & Shadrivov, I. (CoI)

  8/04/15 → 7/04/18

  Project: Research

• Topological data analysis for enhanced modelling of the physical properties of complex micro-structured materials

  Robins, V. (PI)

  1/02/15 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

  • Design Engineering 100%
  • Natural Material 100%
  • Physical Property 50%

• Topologically nontrivial electromagnetic states

  Kivshar, Y. (PI), Khanikaev, A. (CoI), Zayats, A. V. (CoI) & Zhang, X. (CoI)

  28/01/15 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

  • Physical Phenomena 100%
  • Topological Property 100%
  • Electromagnetic 50%
  • Edge 50%

• Optically resonant dielectric structures for nanophotonics

  Kivshar, Y. (PI), Brener, I. (CoI), Lukiyanchuk, B. (CoI) & Shvets, G. (CoI)

  1/01/15 → 31/01/20

  Project: Research

  • Nanophotonics 100%
  • Nanoparticle 100%
  • Dielectric Material 50%
  • Physics 50%
  • Dielectrics 50%

• Nanoantenna-enabled photon management for upconverting nanoparticles

  Kivshar, Y. (PI) & Rockstuhl, C. (CoI)

  1/01/15 → 31/12/16

  Project: Research

• Rogue waves in realistic situations

  Ankiewicz, A. (PI) & Akhmediev, N. (CoI)

  1/01/14 → 31/12/17

  Project: Research

• Dissipative soliton lasers: Innovative approach to high-energy femtosecond pulse generation

  Chang, W. (PI)

  31/03/13 → 30/03/16

  Project: Research

  • Laser Theory 100%
  • Pulse Rate 100%
  • Mode-Locked Laser 50%
  • Pulse Generator 50%