The same techniques that allow us to cool a mechanical resonator into its quantum ground state, or to read out a superfluid mode at the standard quantum limit, translate directly into precision sensing — for inertial measurement, weak forces, and material characterisation. Alongside the experimental programme, we maintain a focus on theory: optomechanical dynamics, non-linear resonators, and the analogue-gravity correspondences underlying our experimental work.
On the applied side, we collaborate with our spin-out enthrophy.com to translate laboratory-grade precision sensing into deployable instruments. The aim is to take measurement chains that have been demonstrated in dilution refrigerators and engineer them into compact, robust hardware for industrial and scientific use — bridging the gap between research-grade sensitivity and fielded sensors.
On the theoretical side, our interests cluster around three areas: the dynamics of non-linear cavity-optomechanical systems beyond the linearised regime; the modelling of acoustic non-linearities in superfluid sonic crystals; and the mapping between superfluid hydrodynamics and the curved-space field theory underlying analogue gravity. The aim is not to do theory in isolation, but to build models that the experiments can directly test.
Translating laboratory-grade precision measurement into deployable, robust hardware for industrial and scientific applications.
Visit enthrophy.com →- Beyond-linear regimes of microwave cavity optomechanics
- Acoustic non-linearities in superfluid sonic-crystal resonators
- Field-theoretic models of analogue spacetimes carried by superfluid flows
- Theoretical limits on precision and back-action evasion in optomechanical sensors