- Prof. H. M. Wiseman FAA
FAPS
FOSA
- Quantum and Advanced Technologies Research Institute
- Griffith University
- Yuggera Country
- Brisbane Queensland 4111
- AUSTRALIA
- Email: H.Wiseman@griffith.edu.au
CV, Citations etc.:
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Scopus list of Publications with Citations (instutional access required)
- Google Scholar list of Publications with Citations
- Preprint
versions of most of my papers, from the physics archive
(arXiv.org)
- Download CV
- Download Ph.D. Thesis (PhDThesis.pdf)
- QUANTUM MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL --- the Cambridge University Press textbook by Wiseman and Milburn
- Download Errata for Quantum Measurement and Control
Links on this Page:
- Theory Group Photo
- Wiseman Group News
- Audios or Videos of some scientific and outreach presentations
- Some Popular Articles by me explaining aspects of science and research
- PhD Positions?
Links to other Pages on my Site:
- My academic pedigree
- Hobby: History (especially dark-age Britain)
- THEN ARTHUR FOUGHT ---
The Matter of Britain (378-634 A.D.) --- my quasihistory of dark-age Britain and Europe,
published in 2015 to
critical acclaim :-).
- My Family (and other animals)
(An informal photo at home, June 2025)

Left to Right: Mr Watcharakorn Suttipong (visiting student), Mr Arjun Shettigar (visiting student), Mr Ori Somech (PhD student), Ms Ingita Banerjee (PhD student), Assoc.Prof. Areeya Chantasri (visitor), Dr Emanuele Polino (DECRA postdoc), Dr Diego Bernal-Gacia (postdoc) and Cristi, Dr Marwan Haddara (just graduated), Dr Trav Baker (postdoc), and Nadine.
Previous group photos.
Wiseman Group News
2025
Physics World #1 Highlight in Quantum Science and Technology for this paper in APL Quantum:
Kyle Thompson, Kehui Li, Daniela Angulo, Vida-Michelle Nixon, Josiah Sinclair, Amal Vijayalekshmi Sivakumar, Howard M. Wiseman, and Aephraim M. Steinberg,
How much time does a photon spend as an atomic excitation before being transmitted through a cloud of atoms?
Congratulations to graduating PhD students Marwan Haddara and Nattaphong Wonglakhon.
Letter in PRA
Luis Villegas-Aguilar, Yuanlong Wang, Alex Pepper, Travis J. Baker, Geoff J. Pryde, Sergei Slussarenko, Nora Tischler, and Howard M. Wiseman,
Quantum Assemblage Tomography
Paper in Quantum Science and Technology
Farzad Ghafari, Mile Gu, Joseph Ho, Jayne Thompson, Whei Yeap Suen, Howard M. Wiseman, and Geoff J. Pryde,
Error-tolerant witnessing of divergences in classical and quantum statistical complexity
Grant Success!
Myself (lead), Dr Nora Tischler, and Assoc. Prof. Eric Cavalcanti have gained a 4-year ARC Discovery Project grant
"Advancing Quantum Experiments to Test Reality Beyond Bell's Theorem"
2024
Paper on the cover of AVS Quantum Science
Alex Pepper, Travis. J. Baker, Yuanlong Wang, Qiu-Cheng Song, ... Howard. M. Wiseman, Geoff. J. Pryde,
Scalable multiparty
steering based on a single pair of entangled qubits
Congratulations!
to all the authors of A strong
no-go theorem on the Wigner's friend paradox, Nature Physics (2020),
chosen as one of of three (related) papers winning the
2023 Paul
Ehrenfest Award for Best Paper in Quantum Foundations
(for papers 2018-2022). Given by IQOQI-Wien under the auspices of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Welcome New PhD student, Ms Ingita Banerjee (now with me as principal supervisor,
following the departure of Dr Gerardo Paz Silva to DIRAQ).
Farewell to Dr Vicky Yu, moving back to China.
Farewell to Dr Yanan Liu, moving to a tenure-track position at Newcastle, NSW.
Farewell to Dr Kiarn Laverick, moving to a postdoc to CQT at NUS, Singapore.
2023
Farewell to Dr Qiucheng Song, moving to a postdoc at KAIST, Korea.
Welcome back Dr Travis Baker, from NTU, Singapore.
Grant Success!
Dr Nora Tischler (lead), myself, and Dr Travis Baker have gained a 5-year AFOSR grant
"Creating Quantum States and Connecting Networks: Cybersecurity through the Lens of Nonlocality"
Paper in PRX-Quantum
Kiarn T. Laverick, Areeya Chantasri, Prahlad Warszawski, and Howard M. Wiseman,
Quantum state smoothing cannot be assumed classical
even when the filtering and retrofiltering are classical
Paper in Quantum (setting out an experiment for next century)
Howard M. Wiseman, Eric G. Cavalcanti, and Eleanor G. Rieffel,
A 'thoughtful' Local Friendliness no-go theorem: a prospective experiment with new assumptions to suit
Physical Review Letter
L.A. Ostrowski, T.J. Baker, S.N. Saadatmand, and H.M. Wiseman,
No Tradeoff between Coherence and
Sub-Poissonianity for Heisenberg-Limited Lasers
Letter in PRA
Hongting Song, Areeya Chantasri, Behnam Tonekaboni, and Howard M. Wiseman,
Optimized mitigation of
random-telegraph-noise dephasing by spectator-qubit sensing and control
2022
Farewell to Dr Behnam Tonekaboni, moving to CSIRO, Melbourne.
Farewell to Dr Travis Baker, moving to a postdoc at NTU, Singapore.
Welcome New PhD student: Mr Ori Somech (from Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Welcome New postdoc: Dr Yanan Liu (from OIST, Japan)
Congratulations to Dr Aníbal Utreras-Alarcón on his PhD, and winning
the 2022 Chancellor’s Medal (one of four at GU).
Farewell and Congratulations to Dr Yuanlong Wang, moving to a tenure-track position with
Academy of Mathematics and System Science, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing.
Welcome New postdoc: Dr Qi (Vicky) Yu (from ANU)
Welcome New Ph.D. student Mr Nattaphong Wonglakhon (from Mahidol, Thailand).
New ARC Discovery Project Grant, Heisenberg-limited lasers: building the revolution. CIs: me and Dominic Berry (MQ)
Congratulations to Dr Kiarn Laverick on his PhD.
2021 Boas Medal awarded to me. For excellence in physics research in Australia 2018-21.
EARLIER WISEMAN GROUP NEWS
Some Popular Articles by me explaining aspects of science and research
- Published on March 30, 2022: Quantum applications and implications
(pdf download; a summary of the work for which I got the Boas Medal, in particular Heisenberg-limited lasers and the Local Friendliness theorem)
- Published on October 26, 2020: Reimagining the laser: new ideas from quantum theory could herald a revolution
- Published on 15 June, 2019: Quantum physics experiment shows Heisenberg was right about uncertainty, in a certain sense
- Published on 22 October, 2015: The universe really is weird: a landmark quantum experiment has finally proved it so
- Published on 24 October, 2014: When parallel worlds collide ... quantum mechanics is born
- Published on 6 July, 2012: Explainer: quantum computation and communication technology
- Published on 14 June, 2012: Explainer: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
Audios or Videos of some scientific and outreach presentations
- Australian Institute of Physics, Theoretical Physics Seminar Series, 24 March 2022:
Can a Qubit be your Friend? (90 minutes)
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- Centre for Quantum Technologies Annual Symposium, NUS, 9 February, 2021:
Can a Qubit be your Friend? (60 minutes)
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- Physics Department, University of Toronto, July 27, 2020:
The Heisenberg limit for laser coherence
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- Institut Henri Poincaré, Published on 11 Jul 2018: Experimental optical phase measurement at the exact Heisenberg Limit
- Institute for Quantum Studies, Published on 27 Mar 2017: What is Quantum Markovianity?
- Singapore Science Centre, 11 January 2017: Are we living in the matrix: an introduction to quantum weirdness
- Griffith Impact Event, Brisbane, 29 November 2016: D-Day for Quantum Physics - The BIG BELL TEST (I and Prof. Geoff Pryde present)
- Interview with George Musser, Vienna, October 2015: An Interview with Howard Wiseman: the debate over quantum nonlocality ...
- Talk at Emergent Quantum Mechanics, Vienna, October 2015: Ensembles of Bohmian Trajectories: Real, Surreal, and Hyper-Real
- ABC Queensland Radio broadcast, 16th February
2015: Sweating
the Small Stuff: Panel
discussion by me and of others about quantum physics
- Quantum Theory Without Observers III, Bielefeld,
2013: Interview
of me (and of others) about quantum foundations
- Quantum Theory Without Observers
III, Bielefeld, 2013: My lecture, "Weak values
and Quantum Foundations" (and others' lectures)
- Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, 2013: Quantum
Enhanced Optical Phase Tracking
- BrisScience public talk, Brisbane,
2011: Are We Living in the Matrix?
- NASA, Moffat Field, 2012: Quantum
Limits in Phase Estimation
- Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, 2009: Adaptive
vs Non-adaptive Measurements for Estimation and Discrimination
- Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, 2009: Tutorial
on Quantum Feedback Control 1 and 2
- Perimeter Institute Recorded Seminar
Archive (PIRSA), 2009: What de
Broglie--Bohm Mechanics tells us about the Nature of the Quantum State
- Perimeter Institute Recorded Seminar Archive
(PIRSA), 2004: Quantum foundations in the
light of quantum dynamics: from weak values to Bohm
- Perimeter Institute Recorded Seminar Archive
(PIRSA), 2004: Entanglement constrained by
indistinguishability: SSRs, Reference Frames
and Beyond
- Griffith University: Introduction to the Centre
for Quantum Dynamics (2010)
- Griffith University: Introduction
to quantum physics research (2007?)
New PhD students? If you are a domestic (Australian or New Zealand) student interested in fundamental aspects of quantum theory, feel free to contact me. Unfortunately, for non-domestic students, the situation in Australia is that candidates must gain a scholarship to pay both fees and living allowances. Currently my University (like many in Australia) has a shortage of PhD scholarships. So, if you are a non-domestic student, I'm afraid I can't accept you unless you are self-funded (c. $70k p.a.).