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Stephen Barnett

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Link to abstract / full textJ.Leach, B.Jack, J.Romero, A.K.Jha, A.M.Yao, S.Franke-Arnold, D.G.Ireland, R.W.Boyd, S.M.Barnett and M.J.Padgett (2010)
Quantum Correlations in Optical Angle-Orbital Angular Momentum Variables
Science 329 662-665

Link to abstract / full textJ.Romero, J.Leach, B.Jack, M.R.Dennis, S.Franke-Arnold, S.M.Barnett and M.J.Padgett (2011)
Entangled Optical Vortex Links
Physical Review Letters 106 100407

Link to abstract / full textA.K.Jha, J.Leach, B.Jack, S.Franke-Arnold, S.M.Barnett, R.W.Boyd and M.J.Padgett (2010)
Angular Two-Photon Interference and Angular Two-Qubit States
Physical Review Letters 104 010501

Link to abstract / full textS.M.Barnett (2010)
Resolution of the Abraham-Minkowski Dilemma
Physical Review Letters 104 070401

Link to abstract / full textB.Jack, J.Leach, J.Romero, S.Franke-Arnold, M.Ritsch-Marte, S.M.Barnett and M.J.Padgett (2009)
Holographic Ghost Imaging and the Violation of a Bell Inequality
Physical Review Letters 103 083602

Link to abstract / full textE.A.Hinds and S.M.Barnett (2009)
Momentum Exchange between Light and a Single Atom: Abraham or Minkowski?
Physical Review Letters 102 050403

Link to abstract / full textJ.Leach, A.J.Wright, J.B.Gotte, J.M.Girkin, L.Allen, S.Franke-Arnold, S.M.Barnett and M.J.Padgett (2008)
"Aether drag" and moving images
Physical Review Letters 100 153902

Link to abstract / full textP.J.Mosley, S.Croke, I.A.Walmsley and S.M.Barnett (2006)
Experimental realization of maximum confidence quantum state discrimination for the extraction of quantum information
Physical Review Letters 97 193601

Link to abstract / full textS.Croke, E.Andersson, S.M.Barnett, C.R.Gilson and J.Jeffers (2006)
Maximum confidence quantum measurements
Physical Review Letters 96 070401

Link to abstract / full textR.Zambrini and S.M.Barnett (2006)
Quasi-intrinsic angular momentum and the measurement of its spectrum
Physical Review Letters 96 113901

Link to abstract / full textJ.Leach, J.Courtial, K.Skeldon, S.M.Barnett, S.Franke-Arnold and M.J.Padgett (2004)
Interferometric methods to measure orbital and spin, or the total angular momentum of a single photon
Physical Review Letters 92 013601

Link to abstract / full textY.Mitsumori, J.A.Vaccaro, S.M.Barnett, E.Andersson, A.Hasegawa, M.Takeoka and M.Sasaki (2003)
Experimental demonstration of quantum source coding
Physical Review Letters 91 217902

Link to abstract / full textJ.A.Dunningham, K.Burnett and S.M.Barnett (2002)
Interferometry below the standard quantum limit with Bose-Einstein condensates
Physical Review Letters 89 150401

Link to abstract / full textJ.Leach, M.J.Padgett, S.M.Barnett, S.Franke-Arnold and J.Courtial (2002)
Measuring the orbital angular momentum of a single photon
Physical Review Letters 88 257901

Link to abstract / full textS.M.Barnett, D.T.Pegg, J.Jeffers and O.Jedrkiewicz (2001)
Master equation for retrodiction of quantum communication signals
Physical Review Letters 86 2455-2458

Link to abstract / full textS.Mahajan, R.M.Cole, J.D.Speed, S.H.Pelfrey, A.E.Russell, P.N.Bartlett, S.M.Barnett and J.J.Baumberg (2010)
Understanding the Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
Journal of Physical Chemistry C 114 7242-7250

Link to abstract / full textR.W.Boyd, B.Rodenburg, M.Mirhosseini and S.M.Barnett (2011)
Influence of atmospheric turbulence on the propagation of quantum states of light using plane-wave encoding
Optics Express 19 18310-18317

Link to abstract / full textJ.Leach, B.Jack, J.Romero, M.Ritsch-Marte, R.W.Boyd, A.K.Jha, S.M.Barnett, S.Franke-Arnold and M.J.Padgett (2009)
Violation of a Bell inequality in two-dimensional orbital angular momentum state-spaces
Optics Express 17 8287-8293

Link to abstract / full textJ.B.Gotte, K.O'Holleran, D.Preece, F.Flossmann, S.Franke-Arnold, S.M.Barnett and M.J.Padgett (2008)
Light beams with fractional orbital angular momentum and their vortex structure
Optics Express 16 993-1006

Link to abstract / full textR.Zambrini and S.M.Barnett (2007)
Angular momentum of multimode and polarization patterns
Optics Express 15 15214-15227

Link to abstract / full textE.Yao, S.Franke-Arnold, J.Courtial, M.J.Padgett and S.M.Barnett (2006)
Observation of quantum entanglement using spatial light modulators
Optics Express 14 13089-13094

Link to abstract / full textR.Loudon and S.M.Barnett (2006)
Theory of the radiation pressure on dielectric slabs, prisms and single surfaces
Optics Express 14 11855-11869

Link to abstract / full textG.Gibson, J.Courtial, M.J.Padgett, M.Vasnetsov, V.Pas'ko, S.M.Barnett and S.Franke-Arnold (2004)
Free-space information transfer using light beams carrying orbital angular momentum
Optics Express 12 5448-5456

Link to abstract / full textM.Stefanak, S.M.Barnett, B.Kollar, T.Kiss and I.Jex (2011)
Directional correlations in quantum walks with two particles
New Journal of Physics 13 033029

Link to abstract / full textC.S.Hamilton, A.Gabris, I.Jex and S.M.Barnett (2011)
Quantum walk with a four-dimensional coin
New Journal of Physics 13 013015

Link to abstract / full textJ.Romero, J.Leach, B.Jack, S.M.Barnett, M.J.Padgett and S.Franke-Arnold (2010)
Violation of Leggett inequalities in orbital angular momentum subspaces
New Journal of Physics 12 013015

Link to abstract / full textB.Jack, J.Leach, H.Ritsch, S.M.Barnett, M.J.Padgett and S.Franke-Arnold (2009)
Precise quantum tomography of photon pairs with entangled orbital angular momentum
New Journal of Physics 11 103024

Link to abstract / full textS.Franke-Arnold, S.M.Barnett, E.Yao, J.Leach, J.Courtial and M.Padgett (2004)
Uncertainty principle for angular position and angular momentum
New Journal of Physics 6 103

Link to abstract / full textM.Padgett, G.Whyte, J.Girkin, A.Wright, L.Allen, P.Ohberg and S.M.Barnett (2006)
Polarization and image rotation induced by a rotating dielectric rod: an optical angular momentum interpretation
Optics Letters 31 2205-2207

Link to abstract / full textF.M.Miatto, A.M.Yao and S.M.Barnett (2011)
Full characterization of the quantum spiral bandwidth of entangled biphotons
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 83 033816

Link to abstract / full textB.Jack, A.M.Yao, J.Leach, J.Romero, S.Franke-Arnold, D.G.Ireland, S.M.Barnett and M.J.Padgett (2010)
Entanglement of arbitrary superpositions of modes within two-dimensional orbital angular momentum state spaces
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 81 043844

Link to abstract / full textT.Brougham, E.Andersson and S.M.Barnett (2009)
Entropic uncertainties for joint quantum measurements
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 80 042106

Link to abstract / full textD.R.Murray, P.Ohberg, D.Gomila and S.M.Barnett (2009)
Vortex nucleation in Bose-Einstein condensates due to effective magnetic fields
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 79 063618

Link to abstract / full textA.K.Jha, B.Jack, E.Yao, J.Leach, R.W.Boyd, G.S.Buller, S.M.Barnett, S.Franke-Arnold and M.J.Padgett (2008)
Fourier relationship between the angle and angular momentum of entangled photons
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 78 043810

Link to abstract / full textP.W.Milonni, R.Loudon, P.R.Berman and S.M.Barnett (2008)
Linear polarizabilities of two- and three-level atoms
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 77 043835

Link to abstract / full textS.Croke, E.Andersson and S.M.Barnett (2008)
No-signaling bound on quantum state discrimination
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 77 012113

Link to abstract / full textD.R.Murray, S.M.Barnett, P.Ohberg and D.Gomila (2007)
Elementary excitations of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an effective magnetic field
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 76 053626

Link to abstract / full textJ.Ruseckas, G.Juzeliunas, P.Ohberg and S.M.Barnett (2007)
Polarization rotation of slow light with orbital angular momentum in ultracold atomic gases
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 76 053822

Link to abstract / full textT.Brougham, E.Andersson and S.M.Barnett (2006)
Cloning and joint measurements of incompatible components of spin
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 73 062319

Link to abstract / full textW.M.Son, E.Andersson, S.M.Barnett and M.S.Kim (2005)
Joint measurements and Bell inequalities
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 72 052116

Link to abstract / full textE.Andersson, S.M.Barnett and A.Aspect (2005)
Joint measurements of spin, operational locality, and uncertainty
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 72 042104

Link to abstract / full textS.M.Barnett and J.D.Cresser (2005)
Quantum theory of friction
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 72 022107

Link to abstract / full textR.Loudon, S.M.Barnett and C.Baxter (2005)
Radiation pressure and momentum transfer in dielectrics: The photon drag effect
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 71 063802

Link to abstract / full textS.M.Barnett and E.Andersson (2002)
Bound on measurement based on the no-signaling condition
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 65 044307

Link to abstract / full textJ.Calsamiglia, S.M.Barnett and N.Lutkenhaus (2002)
Conditional beam-splitting attack on quantum key distribution
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 65 012312

Link to abstract / full textR.Zambrini, S.M.Barnett, P.Colet and M.San Miguel (2002)
Macroscopic quantum fluctuations in noise-sustained optical patterns
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 65 023813

Link to abstract / full textE.Andersson, S.M.Barnett, C.R.Gilson and K.Hunter (2002)
Minimum-error discrimination between three mirror-symmetric states
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 65 052308

Link to abstract / full textM.Sasaki, M.Ban and S.M.Barnett (2002)
Optimal parameter estimation of a depolarizing channel
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 66 022308

Link to abstract / full textJ.Mizuno, M.Fujiwara, M.Akiba, T.Kawanishi, S.M.Barnett and M.Sasaki (2002)
Optimum detection for extracting maximum information from symmetric qubit sets
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 65 012315

Link to abstract / full textD.T.Pegg, S.M.Barnett and J.Jeffers (2002)
Quantum retrodiction in open systems
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 66 022106

Link to abstract / full textS.Franke-Arnold, S.M.Barnett, M.J.Padgett and L.Allen (2002)
Two-photon entanglement of orbital angular momentum states
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 65 033823

Link to abstract / full textA.Chefles, C.R.Gilson and S.M.Barnett (2001)
Entanglement, information, and multiparticle quantum operations
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 6303 032314

Link to abstract / full textR.B.M.Clarke, A.Chefles, S.M.Barnett and E.Riis (2001)
Experimental demonstration of optimal unambiguous state discrimination
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 63 040305

Link to abstract / full textR.B.M.Clarke, V.M.Kendon, A.Chefles, S.M.Barnett, E.Riis and M.Sasaki (2001)
Experimental realization of optimal detection strategies for overcomplete states
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 64 012303

Link to abstract / full textS.Franke-Arnold, E.Andersson, S.M.Barnett and S.Stenholm (2001)
Generalized measurements of atomic qubits
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 63 052301

Link to abstract / full textS.M.Barnett and S.Stenholm (2001)
Hazards of reservoir memory
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 6403 033808

Link to abstract / full textS.M.Barnett (2001)
Minimum-error discrimination between multiply symmetric states
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 6403 030303

Link to abstract / full textJ.Calsamiglia, S.M.Barnett, N.Lutkenhaus and K.A.Suominen (2001)
Removal of a single photon by adaptive absorption
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 6404 043814

Link to abstract / full textB.J.Dalton, S.M.Barnett and B.M.Garraway (2001)
Theory of pseudomodes in quantum optical processes
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 6405 053813

Link to abstract / full textS.Croke, S.M.Barnett and S.Stenholm (2008)
Linear transformations of quantum states
Annals of Physics 323 893-906

Link to abstract / full textS.M.Barnett and R.Loudon (2010)
The enigma of optical momentum in a medium
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 368 927-939

Link to abstract / full textS.M.Barnett, J.Jeffers and J.D.Cresser (2006)
From measurements to quantum friction
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 18 S401-S410

Link to abstract / full textS.M.Barnett and R.Loudon (2006)
On the electromagnetic force on a dielectric medium
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 39 S671-S684

Link to abstract / full textR.Loudon and S.M.Barnett (2006)
Theory of the linear polarizability of a two-level atom
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 39 S555-S563

Link to abstract / full textN.K.Whitlock, J.D.Cresser, S.M.Barnett and J.Jeffers (2005)
Quantum theory of matter-wave detection
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 38 3117-3128

Link to abstract / full textN.K.Whitlock, S.M.Barnett and J.Jeffers (2004)
On the mechanical properties of matter waves
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 37 L293-L296

Link to abstract / full textJ.D.Cresser and S.M.Barnett (2003)
The rate of spontaneous decay of a moving atom
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 36 1755-1759

Link to abstract / full textS.M.Barnett, D.T.Pegg, J.Jeffers and O.Jedrkiewicz (2000)
Atomic retrodiction
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 33 3047-3065

Link to abstract / full textA.J.T.Colin, S.M.Barnett and J.Jeffers (2011)
Programmed discrimination of qbits with added classical information
European Physical Journal D 63 463-472

Link to abstract / full textS.Croke, P.J.Mosley, S.M.Barnett and I.A.Walmsley (2007)
Maximum confidence measurements and their optical implementation
European Physical Journal D 41 589-598

Link to abstract / full textE.K.Tan, J.Jeffers, S.M.Barnett and D.T.Pegg (2003)
Retrodictive states and two-photon quantum imaging
European Physical Journal D 22 495-499

Link to abstract / full textS.M.Barnett, C.Fabre and A.Maitre (2003)
Ultimate quantum limits for resolution of beam displacements
European Physical Journal D 22 513-519

Link to abstract / full textJ.A.Vaccaro and S.M.Barnett (2011)
Information erasure without an energy cost
Proceedings of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 467 1770-1778

Link to abstract / full textJ.B.Gotte, S.M.Barnett and M.Padgett (2007)
On the dragging of light by a rotating medium
Proceedings of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 463 2185-2194

Link to abstract / full textS.M.Barnett and S.Croke (2009)
On the conditions for discrimination between quantum states with minimum error
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 42 062001

Link to abstract / full textB.Bellomo, S.M.Barnett and J.Jeffers (2007)
Frictional quantum decoherence
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 40 9437-9453

Link to abstract / full textE.Andersson, I.Jex and S.M.Barnett (2003)
Comparison of unitary transforms
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 36 2325-2338

Link to abstract / full textS.M.Barnett, C.R.Gilson and M.Sasaki (2001)
Fidelity and the communication of quantum information
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 34 6755-6766

Link to abstract / full textS.M.Barnett (2002)
Orbital angular momentum flux
Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics 4 S7-S16

Link to abstract / full textJ.D.Cresser, S.M.Barnett, J.Jeffers and D.T.Pegg (2006)
Measurement master equation
Optics Communications 264 352-361

Link to abstract / full textH.Q.Wei, X.Xue, J.Leach, M.J.Padgett, S.M.Barnett, S.Franke-Arnold, E.Yao and J.Courtial (2003)
Simplified measurement of the orbital angular momentum of single photons
Optics Communications 223 117-122

Link to abstract / full textS.M.Barnett, A.Chefles and I.Jex (2003)
Comparison of two unknown pure quantum states
Physics Letters A 307 189-195

Link to abstract / full textM.Hillery, E.Andersson, S.M.Barnett and D.K.L.Oi (2010)
Decision problems with quantum black boxes
Journal of Modern Optics 57 244-252

Link to abstract / full textT.Brougham, S.M.Barnett and I.Jex (2010)
Interference of composite bosons
Journal of Modern Optics 57 587-594

Link to abstract / full textS.M.Barnett (2010)
On the recoil and Doppler shifts
Journal of Modern Optics 57 1445-1447

Link to abstract / full textS.M.Barnett (2010)
Quantum state comparison and the universal-NOT operation
Journal of Modern Optics 57 227-231

Link to abstract / full textS.M.Barnett (2010)
Random qubit-states and how best to measure them
Journal of Modern Optics 57 232-238

Link to abstract / full textS.M.Barnett (2010)
Rotation of electromagnetic fields and the nature of optical angular momentum
Journal of Modern Optics 57 1339-1343

Link to abstract / full textS.M.Barnett (2008)
On the quantum core of an optical vortex
Journal of Modern Optics 55 2279-2292

Link to abstract / full textM.G.Scullion and S.M.Barnett (2008)
Optical momentum in negative-index media
Journal of Modern Optics 55 2301-2309

Link to abstract / full textJ.B.Gotte, S.Franke-Arnold, R.Zambrini and S.M.Barnett (2007)
Quantum formulation of fractional orbital angular momentum
Journal of Modern Optics 54 1723-1738

Link to abstract / full textS.M.Barnett and J.Jeffers (2007)
The damped Jaynes-Cummings model
Journal of Modern Optics 54 2033-2048

Link to abstract / full textJ.B.Gotte, S.Franke-Arnold and S.M.Barnett (2006)
Angular EPR paradox
Journal of Modern Optics 53 627-645

Link to abstract / full textR.Zambrini, L.C.Thomson, S.M.Barnett and M.Padgett (2005)
Momentum paradox in a vortex core
Journal of Modern Optics 52 1135-1144

Link to abstract / full textM.Padgett, S.M.Barnett and R.Loudon (2003)
The angular momentum of light inside a dielectric
Journal of Modern Optics 50 1555-1562

Link to abstract / full textM.Padgett, J.Courtial, L.Allen, S.Franke-Arnold and S.M.Barnett (2002)
Entanglement of orbital angular momentum for the signal and idler beams in parametric down-conversion
Journal of Modern Optics 49 777-785

Link to abstract / full textD.T.Pegg, S.M.Barnett and J.Jeffers (2002)
Quantum theory of preparation and measurement
Journal of Modern Optics 49 913-924

Link to abstract / full textS.M.Barnett, D.T.Pegg and J.Jeffers (2000)
Bayes' theorem and quantum retrodiction
Journal of Modern Optics 47 1779-1789

Link to abstract / full textB.Jack, P.Aursand, S.Franke-Arnold, D.G.Ireland, J.Leach, S.M.Barnett and M.J.Padgett (2011)
Demonstration of the angular uncertainty principle for single photons
Journal of Optics 13 064017

Link to abstract / full textS.M.Barnett (2011)
On the six components of optical angular momentum
Journal of Optics 13 064010

Link to abstract / full textS.M.Barnett and S.Croke (2009)
Quantum state discrimination
Advances in Optics and Photonics 1 238