Upcoming Talks and Recent
Name Date Venue Title
Melissa Fender 20 Mar 2013 APS March Meeting Crack propagation on curved surfaces
Dustin Kleckner 19 Mar 2013 APS March Meeting Dynamics of linked and knotted vortices
Vishal Soni 18 Mar 2013 APS March Meeting Frustrated ordering of colloidal crystals in spatially varying potentials
William Irvine 6 Mar 2013 NIM Winter School Colloidal crystals in light fields and curved space: Pleating, fractionalization and control of topological defects
William Irvine 7-8 Feb 2013 Syracuse University Condensed Matter and Biological Physics Seminar Colloidal crystals in curved space: Pleating and fractionalization by topological defects
William Irvine 7-8 Feb 2013 Syracuse University Physics Department Colloquium Knots in Light and Fluid
William Irvine 5-6 Feb 2013 University of Colorado Boulder Physics Seminar Colloidal crystals in curved space: Pleating and fractionalization by topological defects
William Irvine 5-6 Feb 2013 University of Colorado Boulder Physics Department Colloquium Knots in Light and Fluid
William Irvine 6 Dec 2012 Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences Knots in Light and Fluids II
William Irvine 11 Sep 2012 Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences Knots in Light and Fluid I
Articles and Preprints

Creation and dynamics of knotted vortices in fluid

D. Kleckner, W.T.M. Irvine
Nature Physics DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS2560 (2013)

Orientation-dependent measures of chirality

Efi Efrati and W.T.M. Irvine
Submitted for publication

 
Tying knots in light fields

Hridesh Kedia, Daniel Peralta-Salas, Iwo Byalinizky-Birula and W.T.M. Irvine
Submitted for publication

 
Geometric background charge: dislocations on capillary bridges

W.T.M. Irvine and V. Vitelli
Soft Matter 8, 10123 (2012)

 
Fractionalization of interstitials in curved colloidal crystals

W.T.M. Irvine, M. Bowick and P.M. Chaikin
Nature Materials 11, 948951 (2012)

 
Linked and knotted beams of light, conservation of helicity and the flow of null electromagnetic fields

W.T.M. Irvine
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 43, 385203 (2010)

 
By the PI, pre-IrvineLab

Cubic crystals from cubic colloids

Laura Rossi, Stefano Sacanna, W.T.M. Irvine, Paul M. Chaikin, David J. Pine, and Albert Philipse
Soft Matter 7, 4139 (2011)
Featured on Cover

 
Lock and key colloids through polymerization-induced buckling of monodispersed silicon oil droplets

S. Sacanna, W.T.M. Irvine, L. Rossi, P.M. Chaikin, and D.J. Pine
Soft Matter 7, 1631 (2011)
Featured on Cover

 
Pleated crystals on curved surfaces

W.T.M. Irvine V.Vitelli and P.M. Chaikin
Nature 468, 947-951 (2010)

 
Lock and key colloids

S. Sacanna, W.T.M. Irvine, P.M. Chaikin and D.J. Pine
Nature 464, 575-578 (2010)
Lock and Key Colloids and Method of Manufacture, Patent Pending

 
Polychromatic photonic quasicrystal cavities

S.M. Thon, W.T.M. Irvine, Dustin Kleckner and D. Bouwmeester
Physical Review Letters 104, 243901 (2010)

 
Diffraction-limited high-finesse optical cavities

D. Kleckner, W.T.M. Irvine, S. Oemrawsingh and D. Bouwmeester
Physical Review A 81, 043814 (2010)

 
Strong coupling through optical positioning of a quantum dot in a photonic crystal cavity

S.M. Thon, M.T. Rakher, H. Kim, J. Gudat, W.T.M. Irvine , P.M. Petroff and D. Bouwmeester
Applied Physics Letters 94, 111115 (2009).

 
  Linked and knotted beams of light

W.T.M.Irvine and D. Bouwmeester
Nature Physics 4, 716-720 (2008)
Featured on Cover

 
  High Finesse Opto-Mechanical Cavity with a Movable Thirty-Micron-Size Mirror

D. Kleckner, W. Marshall, M.J.A. de Dood, N. Dinyari B. Pors, W.T.M. Irvine and D. Bouwmeester
Physical Review Letters 96, 173901 (2006)

 
  Strong coupling between single photons in semiconductor micro-cavities

W.T.M. Irvine, K. Hennesey and D. Bouwmeester
Physical Review Letters 96, 057405 (2006)

 
  Bloch theory of entangled photon generation in non-linear photonic crystals

W.T.M. Irvine, M.J.A. de Dood and D. Bouwmeester
Physical Review A 72, 043815 (2005)

 
  Realisation of Hardy's thought experiment

W.T.M. IrvineJ.H. Hodelin, C. Simon and D. Bouwmeester
Physical Review Letters 95, 030401 (2005)

 
  Nonlinear Photonic Crystals as a Source of Entangled Photons

M.J.A. de Dood, W.T.M. Irvine and D. Bouwmeester
Physical Review Letters 93, 040504 (2003)

 
  Optimal Quantum Cloning on a Beam-splitter

W.T.M. Irvine, Antia Lamas Linares, M.J.A. de Dood and D. Bouwmeester
Physical Review Letters 92, 047902 (2003)

 
  Robust Long-Distance Entanglement and a Loophole-Free Bell Test with Ions and Photons

C.Simon and W.T.M. Irvine
Physical Review Letters 91, 110405 (2003)

 
  Generalised Bell Inequalities With Parametric Down-Conversion

Antia Lamas Linares, W.T.M. Irvine, John C. Howell and D. Bouwmeester
Quantum Information and Computation on line 3, Special pp 471-479 (2003)

 
  Quantum jumps in singly ionized magnesium

H.F. Powell, M.A. van Eijkelenborg, W.T.M. Irvine, D.M. Segal and R.C. Thompson,
Journal of Physics B 34, 1-12 (2001)

 
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Lock and Key Colloids
Knotted Light
Entangled Photons and Photonic Crystals
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