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Professor Andrew Greentree, Senior Research Fellow
Professor Andrew Greentree researches quantum devices in the field of Solid Light, Diamond micro and nano fabrication and Coherent Tunnelling Adiabatic Passage (CTAP).
VISUAL: Professor Andrew Greentree, Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow, School of Applied Sciences, RMIT University logo.
VISUAL: Professor Andrew Greentree, Vice?Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow, School of Applied Sciences speaking, side?on to camera.
Andrew Greentree: I was thinking about this earlier, what does it say? RMIT is a University of technology and design ...
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Andrew Greentree: ... and I’m designing future devices and I want them to become the core of a new quantum technology and that context is something that you get from RMIT, it’s really quite special.
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Andrew Greentree: So we have this issue that the laws of physics, the laws of quantum physics are fairly well?known.
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Andrew Greentree: We’ve been making electronic devices that use quantum physics, particularly the wave?like nature of electrons.
VISUAL: Andrew Greentree typing at laptop.
Andrew Greentree: We’ve had them, they’re inside every computer chip, they’re changing our lives but ...
VISUAL: Clip of Physics For Scientists and Engineers book.
Andrew Greentree: ... it’s using of laws of physics that we understand ...
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Andrew Greentree: ... and quite frankly, are boring. We want to use the laws of physics that are shocking and surprising: ...
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Andrew Greentree: Measurement, entanglement ...
VISUAL: Video clip of Andrew Greentree (head only) standing in front of a red spinning item with formula symbols on it.
Andrew Greentree: ... we want to use all of these effects to design ...
VISUAL: Andrew Greentree working at desk.
Andrew Greentree: ... new kinds of devices. The grand goal of what I’m working on is ...
VISUAL: Clip of a pile of four books on his desk, Quantum Computations and Quantum Information on the top of pile.
Andrew Greentree: ... the Quantum Computer and this is a big ...
VISUAL: Andrew Greentree looking at his laptop.
Andrew Greentree: ... overarching push. And the quantum computer is a ...
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Andrew Greentree: ... device that many of us hope will completely change ...
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Andrew Greentree: ... the way we do computation. That’s a long way off.
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Andrew Greentree: Before then, we’re very interested in ...
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Andrew Greentree: ... I’m very interested in quantum emulators so these are ...
VISUAL: Andrew Greentree speaking with male research assistant and looking at computer screen.
Andrew Greentree: ... quantum devices that you can build, where you tailor the quantum mechanical effects to be the same as some system of interest. When we talk about systems of interest it sounds nebulous but we’re actually talking about chemicals, in particular. We want to be able to understand all the processes that go on ...
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Andrew Greentree: ... maybe inside a caffeine molecule. This is a non?trivial problem, it’s a hard problem ...
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Andrew Greentree: ... and it’s hard because you can't get in there and measure all of the quantum mechanical properties. And so my work has con ... one of the aspects of my work has been understanding how to build a ...
VISUAL: Computer screen with pink light image.
Andrew Greentree: ... photonic system based ... a system based of light ...
VISUAL: Andrew Greentree sitting at desk and male research assistant standing in conversation, discussing research.
Andrew Greentree: ... that would enable us to model all of these interactions. And so you have new ways of probing things, new sensitivities and so you’d like to build new forms of quantum [unclear] senses. Here, much of the theory is known ...
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Andrew Greentree: ... but building these quantum devices in a robust and deployable fashions ...
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Andrew Greentree: ... that’s really hard, that’s still a non?trivial problem. And that’s one of the things that we’ve been looking at here.
VISUAL: Andrew Greentree speaking with male research assistant.
Andrew Greentree: The research culture here is fun. RMIT has been hiring lots of young people with good new ideas and it’s a fun time to be here.
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Andrew Greentree: People come into my office, we sit at the whiteboard, kick around ideas.
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Andrew Greentree: We have students coming in here, there’s a lot of freedom to explore ideas which would ... might be considered just crazy but ...
VISUAL: Andrew Greentree speaking with male research assistant looking at research booklet.
Andrew Greentree: ... of course, need to be started. We need to start with the ideas and whittle them down until we find out what’s the interesting essence of that. It’s a fun place to be doing work. There is nothing so exciting as seeing a new effect for the first time When you have a new idea ...
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Andrew Greentree: ... and it must have been how the early explorers felt when they discovered ...
VISUAL: Andrew Greentree standing next to male research assistant discussing what’s on computer screen.
Andrew Greentree: ... a new country or a new continent. I can sit down in front of my computer with my students and we can see something on the screen that we’ve never seen before.
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Andrew Greentree: For me, science, physics; it’s just a joy and I love ...
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Andrew Greentree: ... the opportunity, I’m very grateful ...
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Andrew Greentree: ... for the opportunity to be able to work as a practising professional scientist.
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