Dr Almut Beige

Associate Professor for Quantum Photonics

Head of the Theoretical Physics Group
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Leeds

Room: 3.16A in the Bragg Building
Email: a.beige@leeds.ac.uk
Phone: 0113 3433899

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Thanks to Philip Goyal for making the recordings of the Vadstena 2024 conference on "New approaches to the foundations of quantum physics" available on YouTube.

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A special issue on Quantum Resource Theories: From Entanglement to Time Correlations and Measurement-Induced Noise in MDPI Entropy is currently open for paper submission. Deadline is the 20th of November 2025.

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Selected publications:

• Enhancing wave-particle duality,
  A. Bukhari, D. Hodgson, S. Kanzi, R. Purdy and A. Beige, submitted. arXiv:2503.20077.
• Acceleration without photon pair creation,
  S. Kanzi, D. Hodgson and A. Beige, submitted. arXiv:2503.09863.
• Enhanced Laser Cooling of a Mechanical Resonator via Zero-Photon Detection,
  E. A. Cryer-Jenkins, K. D. Major, J. Clarke, G. Enzian, M. Szczykulska, J. Zhang, A. Gupta, A. C. Leung, H. Rathee, A. Ø. Svela, A. K. C. Tan, A. Beige, K. Mølmer, and M. R. Vanner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 073601 (2025). arXiv:2408.01734.
• Local photon model of the momentum of light (Editor's Suggestion),
  G. Waite, D. Hodgson, B. Lang, V. Alapatt and A. Beige, Phys. Rev. A 111, 023703 (2025). arXiv:2410.03633.
• Mirror-mediated ultralong-range dipole-dipole interactions,
  N. Furtak-Wells, B. Dawson, T. Mann, G. Jose, and A. Beige, Opt. Quantum Electron. 56, 1287 (2024). arXiv:2305.18826.
• A physically-motivated quantisation of the electromagnetic field,
  R. Bennett, T. M. Barlow, and A. Beige, Eur. J. Phys. 37, 014001 (2016). arXiv:1506.03305.
• Robust entanglement through macroscopic quantum jumps,
  J. Metz, M. Trupke, and A. Beige, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 040503 (2006). arXiv:0510051.
• Repeat-until-success linear optics distributed quantum computing,
  Y. L. Lim, A. Beige, and L. C. Kwek, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 030505 (2005). quant-ph/0408043.
• Quantum computing using dissipation to remain in a decoherence-free subspace,
  A. Beige, D. Braun, B. Tregenna, and P. L. Knight, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1762 (2000). quant-ph/0004043.
• Projection postulate and atomic quantum Zeno effect,
  A. Beige and G. C. Hegerfeldt, Phys. Rev. A 53, 53 (1996). arXiv:quant-ph/9512012.