Author Archives: Mikko
Quantum era for bolometers begins
Ten years ago, we started to develop thermal radiation sensors, also know as bolometers, to sense single microwave photons. Nobody has thus far demonstrated this but now we start to be very close. So close that we got published in Nature! … Continue reading
Photons break records in heat transport
Nature Physics has just published our paper titled Quantum-limited heat conduction over macroscopic distances. Here, we report an improvement in the range of this kind of maximally efficient heat conduction by a factor of 10,000 taking it up to a meter. This … Continue reading
We tied quantum knots
As just reported by Nature Physics, our collaboration between Hall Labs (Amherst College, USA) and my Quantum Computing and Devices (QCD) Labs has succeeded in tying the first knot solitons in quantum matter. We created these quantum knots in the field describing a dilute Bose-Einstein condensate … Continue reading
Quantum-mechanical monopoles discovered
We did it! Our monopole collaboration (Aalto University, Finland, and Amherst College, USA) succeeded in observing an isolated point-like monopole in a quantum field itself for the first time. This discovery connects to important characteristics of the elusive magnetic monopole. The results will be published tomorrow … Continue reading
Quantum Technology Marches On
In my last column in Helsingin sannomat, I wrote on the importance and great potential of quantum technology. It is truly the way of the future. Just yesterday we had the kick-off event of the Center for Quantum Engineering (CQE) here at Aalto. Inspiring talks were … Continue reading