
Snapshot of evolving Duffing oscillator Wigner function and associated environmental diffusion current vector field [from W. F. Braasch et al. Phys. Rev. A 100, 012124 (2019)].
My work as a theoretical physicist centres on addressing the fundamental question concerning how our macroscopic, classical world of everyday experience emerges from the microscopic, counterintuitive quantum world. Relevant investigations range from collaborating with experimentalists (Alex Rimberg, Dartmouth; Keith Schwab, Caltech) and theorists (Andrew Armour, Nottingham) on mesoscale electro(opto)mechanical systems that straddle the micro-macro worlds ... to constructing fundamental theories on the possible role of gravity as an enforcer of classicality in the macroscopic domain.
M. P. Blencowe and H. Wang, Analogue gravity on a superconducting chip, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 378, 20190224 (2020), DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2019.0224
William F. Braasch, Jr., Oscar D. Friedman, Alexander J. Rimberg, and Miles P. Blencowe, Wigner current for open quantum systems, Physical Review A 100, 012124 (2019). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.012124
Hui Wang, M. P. Blencowe, C. M. Wilson, and A. J. Rimberg, Mechanically generating entangled photons from the vacuum: A microwave circuit-acousticresonator analog of the oscillatory Unruh effect, Physical Review A 99, 053833 (2019). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.99.053833
Hui Wang, M. P. Blencowe, A. D. Armour, and A. J. Rimberg, Quantum dynamics of a Josephson junction driven cavity mode system in the presence of voltage bias noise, Physical Review B 96, 104503 (2017). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.96.104503
Book project (Oxford University Press): Mechanical Systems in the Quantum Regime.
Gravitationally induced decoherence.
Analogue relativistic quantum field and spacetime effects in superconducting circuits.
Quantum dynamics of strongly nonlinear, low noise superconducting circuits.
Quantum versus classical dynamics of ultrastrong coupling opto(electro)mechanical systems.
Quantum music