Dr. Blackmore is an atomic and molecular physicist with a particular interest in using complex quantum systems for useful applications. Currently, he works with Prof. David Lucas in the department of physics and is specialising in expanding ion trap quantum computers by using networks of single photons.
In the recent past he also studied how robust, miniature nodes can be constructed for wider-scale deployment of quantum networks, with Dr. Joe Goodwin. This work led to several patents and commercial partnerships.
His Ph.D was completed at Durham University in the group of Prof. Simon Cornish. During this time he studied the limiting factor on the lifetime of ultracold (1 millionth of a degree above absolute zero) molecules made from rubidium and caesium atoms as well as developing elementary techniques for the control over the internal hyperfine and rotational state of the same molecules.
In the near future he will be taking up an EPSRC career acceleration fellowship and starting a new lab to study how some of the techniques he developed on the neutral molecules can be integrated into ion-trapping experiments for quantum computing and simulation.
