William Thomas Mark Irvine Born 16th February 1979, L'Aquila, Italy ...

William Thomas Mark Irvine
Born 16 th February 1979, L’Aquila, Italy
Contact: william@physics.nyu.edu
Center for Soft Matter Research,
New York University Department of Physics,
4 Washington Place, New York NY10003, U.S.
Languages: Italian, English: mother-tongue, French and Spanish: working knowledge
Education/Research
At present Center for Soft Matter Research, NYU PostDoc (with P.M. Chaikin)
Experiments on topological defect dynamics in two-dimensional lattices of charged colloids on
curved surfaces and in the presence of applied external potentials; theoretical work on
electromagnetic knots; experiments and modeling on a lock and key colloidal
system. Partially supported by a Lindemann fellowship
2003-2006 University of California at Santa Barbara Ph.D, Physics (with D. Bouwmeester)
Exploring possibilities for single-photon χ (2) processes in semiconductor nanostructures
Courses attended include General Relativity (J.B. Hartle), Quantum Field Theory (M. Srednicki),
Condensed Matter (L. Balents), Renormalization (A. Ludwig) and Many body physics (M. Fisher).
2001-2004 University of Oxford D.Phil. (Ph.D), Physics (with D. Bouwmeester)
A mix of experiments and theory in quantum optics. Experiments: Quantum cloning
on a beam splitter and Realisation of Hardy’s thought experiment. Theory (proposals):
Entangling distant ions for a final test of Bell’s inequalities and Entangled photon generation
from nonlinear photonic crystals.
1997-2001 Imperial College, London Master of Science: First Class, ARCS
Third year Project (Experimental): “Quantum Jumps in Magnesium” (with R.C. Thompson)
Fourth year Project (Theoretical): “Consistent Histories: Why? and How?” (with C.J. Isham)
Awards: Nothern Telecom Prize (Experimental) and Tyndall Prize (Theory).
Other Relevant Experience
2002 Move from Oxford to Santa Barbara: setting up lab
During the course of my Ph.D, we moved from Oxford to UCSB. I was heavily involved in
in setting up the labs at UCSB.
Summer 2000 Centre for Quantum Computation, University of Oxford: undergraduate researcher
(3 Months) As a summer student, I worked on stimulated emission of entangled photons and
measurements of Bell’s inequalities. Supervisor: D.Bouwmeester.
1999-2000 Ion Trapping Group, Imperial College: undergraduate researcher
(4 Months) As an undergraduate researcher, I set up a Penning ion trap, developed techniques to load
a single ion and measured the Quantum Jump statistics of 24,25,26 Mg + .
Supervisors: M.A. van Eijekelenborg, D.M. Segal and R.C. Thompson.
Summer 1999 Quantum Optica, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands: undergraduate researcher
(2 Months ) As a summer student I worked on the characterisation of Nd:YVO4 microchip lasers at
different temperatures. Supervisors: K. van Druten, M.P. van Exter and J.P. Woerdman.
1997-1999 Ion Trapping Group, Imperial College: undergraduate researcher
( 2 Years ) As an undergraduate researcher, I built and operated Radio-Frequency ion traps
intended for cavity QED. Supervisors: D.M. Segal and R.C. Thompson.

List of publications
1. Susanna M. Thon, Matthew T. Rakher, Hyochul Kim, Jan Gudat, William T. M. Irvine,
Pierre M. Petroff, and Dirk Bouwmeester ,
Strong coupling through optical positioning of a quantum dot in a photonic crystal cavity,
Applied Physics Letters 94, 111115 (2009).
2. William T.M. Irvine and Dirk Bouwmeester,
Linked and knotted beams of light,
Nature Physics 4 716 (2008).
Featured on the cover.
3. Dustin Kleckner, Will Marshall, Michiel J.A. de Dood, Nima Dinyari Bart-Jan Pors,
William T.M. Irvine and Dirk Bouwmeester,
High Finesse Opto-Mechanical Cavity with a Movable Thirty-Micron-Size Mirror,
Physical Review Letters 96 173901 (2006).
4. William T.M. Irvine, K. Hennesey and Dirk Bouwmeester,
Strong coupling between single photons in semiconductor micro-cavities,
Physical Review Letters 96 057405 (2006). Also: Virtual Journal of Quantum Information.
5. William T.M. Irvine, Michiel J.A. de Dood and Dirk Bouwmeester,
Bloch theory of entangled photon generation in non-linear photonic crystals,
Physical Review A 72 043815 (2005). Also: Virtual Journal of Quantum Information.
6. William T.M. Irvine, Juan H. Hodelin, Chirstoph Simon and Dirk Bouwmeester,
Realisation of Hardy’s thought experiment,
Physical Review Letters 95 030401 (2005). Also: Virtual Journal of Quantum Information.
7. Michiel J.A. de Dood, William T.M. Irvine and Dirk Bouwmeester,
Nonlinear Photonic Crystals as a Source of Entangled Photons,
Physical Review Letters 93 040504 (2003). Also: Virtual Journal of Quantum Information.
Reported on in: From patchy particles to entangled photons Nature Materials , Vol.3, 582 (2004).
8. William T.M. Irvine, Antia Lamas Linares, Michiel J.A. de Dood and Dirk Bouwmeester,
Optimal Quantum Cloning on a Beam-splitter,
Physical Review Letters 92 047902 (2003). Also: Virtual Journal of Quantum Information.
9. Christoph Simon and William T.M. Irvine,
Robust Long-Distance Entanglement and a Loophole-Free Bell Test with Ions and Photons,
Physical Review Letters 91 110405 (2003). Also: Virtual Journal of Quantum Information.
10. Antia Lamas Linares, William T.M. Irvine, John C. Howell and Dirk Bouwmeester,
Generalised Bell Inequalities With Parametric Down-Conversion,
Quantum Information and Computation on line 3 Special 471 (2003).
11. H.F. Powell, M.A. van Eijkelenborg, W. Irvine, D.M. Segal and R.C. Thompson,
Quantum jumps in singly ionized magnesium,
Journal of Physics B 34 1 (2001).

12. William T.M. Irvine, Andrew D. Hollingsworth, David G. Grier and Paul M. Chaikin,
Topological tweezers, Submitted.
13. Stefano Sacanna, William T.M. Irvine, Paul M. Chaikin and David J. Pine, Lock and key
colloids, Submitted.
14. Dustin Kleckner, William T.M. Irvine, Sumant Oemrawsingh and Dirk Bouwmeester,
Calculating the Modes of Diffraction Limited Optical Cavities Submitted.
Seminars/Group talks
University of Chicago, Special MRSEC seminar,
“Light, soft matter and geometry”
University of Chicago, Special MRSEC seminar,
“Liked and knotted beams of light”
University of Chicago, Special seminar,
“Light, soft matter and geometry”
Leiden University, Seminar,
“Optical and geometrical control of colloidal monolayers”
Syracuse University, Soft matter and biological physics Seminar,
“Two-dimensional crystallography at an oil-water interface”
Syracuse University, Journal club talk,
“Linked and knotted beams of light”
Courant institute for mathematical sciences., Applied mathematics laboratory seminar,
“Linked and knotted beams of light”
Leiden University, Quantum optics Group seminar,
“Pinning of a two dimensional lattice of colloids”
California Institute of Technology, Vahala group seminar,
“Single photons in nonlinear photonic crystals”
California NanoSystems Institute, Brown Bag seminar,
“Single photons in nonlinear photonic crystals”
Institute for quantum computation, Waterloo, Seminar
“Entagled photons from nonlinear photonic crystals and Hardy’s thought experiment”
Conferences/Summer schools
IACIS International Conference on Surface and Colloid Science and ACS Colloid &
Surface Science Symposium 2009 (Talk).
Physics@FOM, Veldhoven 2009 (Attended).
Interfaces, Topological Defects and Flexible Packings: Applied Geometry
in Condensed-Matter , Aspen Center for Physics, July 2008 (Attended and Talk).
APS March meeting, New Orleans, March 2008 (Talk).
Packing Problems, Classical Ground States and Glasses, Princeton, April 2007 (Attended).
Caltech Active-Nanophotonic Devices, May 2006 (Attended).
CLEO/QELS and PhAST, Long Beach, May 2006 (Talk).

CNID review meeting, Santa Barbara, May 2006 (Attended).
Quantum Physics of Nature, Vienna, 2005 (Poster).
APS March meeting, Los Angeles, 2005. (Talk and poster).
Strings, Particles and Cosmology, IAS, Princeton. Summer school 2002 (Attended).
IQEC 2000, Nice, (Talk).
Referee for
Nature Physics, Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters, EuroPhysics Letters, Proceedings of the
Royal Society