26th Australian Institute of Physics Congress and the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics

Session

AIP CMM: Quantum systems

CMM

10 Dec 2026, 11:00

Belinda Hutchinson Building (The University of Sydney )

168. Deterministic Single-Electron Trapping on Solid Neon Using Engineered Dielectric Surface Geometry

Kundan Kawdu Surse (School of Physics, UNSW Sydney)

10/12/2026, 11:30

AIP | Condensed Matter & Materials (CMM)

Contributed Oral

Levitating electrons on solid neon form an emerging qubit platform in which the active electron is confined primarily in vacuum above an ultraclean, weakly polarizable, and predominantly nuclear-spin-free dielectric, enabling strong microwave control with reduced material noise. But electrons loaded from an emitter may localize in unintended potential minima generated by electrode gaps, etched...

615. Ion Transport Mechanisms in Disordered Electrolytes: A Unified Framework from Nanoscale Thermodynamics

Xinkai Sun (School of Physics, The University of Sydney)

10/12/2026, 11:45

AIP | Condensed Matter & Materials (CMM)

Contributed Oral

Nanoscale thermodynamics governs how ions move through disordered electrolytes, yet connecting this atomistic-scale behaviour to macroscopic, experimentally observable transport remains a central challenge for developing next-generation energy storage technologies such as batteries. Predicting how ions navigate a landscape shaped by microscopic fluctuations in the local thermodynamic...

297. Learning Performance of Noise-Assisted Quantum Reservoir Computing

Jonas Freiheit (RMIT University)

10/12/2026, 12:00

AIP | Condensed Matter & Materials (CMM)

Contributed Oral

Quantum Reservoir Computing (QRC) is a quantum machine-learning framework that exploits the dynamics of quantum systems as a fixed reservoir to process time-dependent input signals, with learning confined to a classical readout layer. This makes QRC efficient to train and well-suited for real-time prediction[ [Fuji2017][1], [Nakajima2021][2], [Pena2023] ][3]. In this work, we investigate a...

50. Optomechanical dissipative soliton collider

Nicole Luu (The University of Queensland, Australia)

10/12/2026, 12:15

AIP | Condensed Matter & Materials (CMM)

Contributed Oral

Dissipative solitons and localized dissipative structures are ubiquitous, from optomechanics [1] to fluid dynamics [2], and even cosmological defects [3]. Dissipative solitons exist in systems far from equilibrium, where energy is continuously being lost and resupplied, which introduces unique properties distinct from analogous systems at equilibrium. We have engineered an optomechanical...

504. Photoelectric detection of single spins enhanced by charge trapping

AIP | Condensed Matter & Materials (CMM)

Poster

Electrical detection of solid-state spins is attractive for quantum technologies, being readily chip-scalable while avoiding the small photon budgets of single emitters. Photoelectrically-detected magnetic resonance (PDMR) provides one such route [1], but carrier trapping by bulk impurities limits photocurrent, throttles bandwidth, and introduces charge transfer dynamics that complicate...