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Nov 14 2024
Marco Bellini awarded by the Accademia dei Lincei
Marco Bellini was awarded the “Prof. Luigi Tartufari” international prize for Physics-Chemistry by the prestigious Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome.
Oct 05 2023
A bit of us in the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics
We congratulate to the three winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics and we are extremely happy to have played a little role in the long path to this award. Indeed, one of the key experiments that led to today’s prize was performed in Florence, by Marco Bellini in collaboration with Ted Hänsch and …
Dec 22 2022
Quantum phase sensing at a distance
Performing remote phase measurements with a sensitivity proportional to the intensity of light that never interacted with distant, and possibly delicate, samples. On the front cover of Advanced Quantum Technologies, December 2022.
Oct 21 2022
Microscopic Reversibility Goes Quantum
We extended a fundamental principle in statistical mechanics called microscopic reversibility to the quantum world and experimentally verified it. Just appeared in PRL and selected as an Editor’s Suggestion and for a Synopsis in Physics.
Oct 05 2022
We are hiring!
We have an open position for a (1-year extendable) postdoctoral fellow in Experimental Quantum Optics for a qualified, motivated, and dynamic young scientist.
Sep 22 2022
Photon-by-photon quantum state engineering
A concise review on how to engineer the quantum state of light one photon at a time has just appeared in Progress of Quantum Electronics.
Aug 22 2022
4D diamond detectors: adding time resolution
We added time resolution to our laser fabricated 3D diamond detectors. See the paper in Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A for more info.
Dec 22 2021
Making of 3D diamond detectors
Intense laser pulses write graphitic electrodes in diamond in order to produce 3D pixel sensors optimised for timing applications at future hadron colliders. Just published in Instruments.
Sep 15 2021
Multimode photon addition
We review our recent experimental results concerning the conditional implementation of coherent superpositions of single-photon additions onto distinct field modes. On the cover of Entropy.