With over 50 years of combined experience, our team is designed to give expert advice on the key technologies, capabilities and investment opportunities in the emerging field of active quantum technologies.  h-bar can be asked to advise, consult and investigate issues related to large-scale quantum computing or communications investment or other technology that involves the exploitation of active quantum mechanical systems.  

Simon Devitt is currently a senior lecturer at the centre for Quantum Software and Information (QSI) at the University of Technology, Sydney.  Completing his Ph.D in 2007 from the University of Melbourne, Australia, he has held positions at the National Institute of Informatics, Ochanomizu University, Keio University and Riken in Japan and as a research fellow for the ARC centre of excellence in Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS) at Macquarie University, Sydney.  As one of the world leaders in quantum architecture development, Dr. Devitt has invented key quantum computing architectures in atom-optics, diamond and ion trap systems.  Dr. Devitt has also been the inventor of three separate quantum communications designs, 2nd and 3rd generation repeaters and the quantum sneakernet.  In recent years, Dr. Devitt has pioneered the the design of programming, compilation and optimisation of large-scale quantum technology.  Having released some of the only software compilers for actual quantum computing systems under experimental development, Dr. Devitt now collaborates widely with both academic and industrial researchers.  Dr. Devitt has published over 110 papers in world class physics, computer-science and engineering journals and given scores of talks at conferences, universities and companies worldwide.  He was awarded the inaugural Warren prize by the Royal Society of NSW in 2020 for his contributions to quantum computing development and he was elected fellow of the society in 2021. He is regularly featured in the popular press commenting on major achievements in quantum technology.  

Dr. Jared Cole is currently an Professor of Physics at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Cole completed his Ph.D in 2006 from the University of Melbourne.  Following a brief stint as a research associate in the Australian Research Council Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, in 2007 he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship to the Institut für Festkörperphysik in Karlsruhe Germany. In 2011 he returned to Australia as an RMIT Senior Vice-chancellor's Fellow where he founded the theoretical chemical and quantum physics research group. Dr. Cole has worked on a broad range of topics in quantum physics and condensed matter physics. These include quantum characterisation and control, decoherence and measurement theory and the computational modelling of superconducting and semiconductor quantum devices. He specialises in using mathematical and computational models to describe the design and operation of quantum computing and quantum electronic devices. Having both studied and worked in electronic engineering before coming to theoretical physics, Dr. Cole has a long track-record of working closely with experimental groups all over the world to model all the messy realities of developing quantum technologies.