Dr Sarah Croke

  • Senior Lecturer (Physics & Astronomy)

telephone: 0141 330 4717
email: Sarah.Croke@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: She/her/hers

School of Physics and Astronomy, Kelvin Building

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4120-4133

Research interests

‌‌I joined the University of Glasgow as a lecturer in September 2013, trading the cold winters of Canada for the comparatively warmer climes of the West of Scotland. I was very happy to have the opportunity to return to Glasgow, where I completed my PhD at the University of Strathclyde in 2007. In the interim I spent almost 6 years in the lovely Waterloo, Ontario, at the Perimeter Institute, where I was first a postdoctoral fellow and later a PSI fellow. My main research interests are in quantum information and quantum measurement, motivated by the fact that I remain somewhat puzzled by quantum theory. My current research focuses on quantum information protocols that require only a small quantum processor, and thus may be implementable with current or near future technology. Quantum information is a broad and interdisciplinary field sitting somewhere at the boundary between mathematics, computer science, and theoretical and experimental physics. Working in this field I have enjoyed learning parts of all of these, but remain a physicist, and am most interested in the interface between theoretical and experimental aspects of the field. I still hope to some day understand what quantum theory is trying to tell us about the world.

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Publications

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2024

Barnett, S. M. , Cresser, J. D. and Croke, S. (2024) Revisiting the damped quantum harmonic oscillator. Physica Scripta, 99(2), 025109. (doi: 10.1088/1402-4896/ad1902)

2022

Croke, S. (2022) Multipartite subspaces containing no locally inaccessible information. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 106(3), 032421. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.106.032421)

Al Khafaji, M.A., Cisowski, C.M., Jimbrown, H., Croke, S. , Pádua, S. and Franke-Arnold, S. (2022) Single-shot characterization of vector beams by generalized measurements. Optics Express, 30(13), pp. 22396-22409. (doi: 10.1364/OE.458352) (PMID:36224938)

Spencer-Wood, H., Jeffers, J. and Croke, S. (2022) Measurement disturbance tradeoffs in three-qubit unsupervised quantum classification. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 105(6), 062447. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.105.062447)

Gao, S., Hayes, F. , Croke, S. , Messenger, C. and Veitch, J. (2022) Quantum algorithm for gravitational-wave matched filtering. Physical Review Research, 4(2), 023006. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.023006)

2020

Messinger, A., Ritboon, A., Crimin, F. , Croke, S. and Barnett, S. (2020) Coherence and catalysis in the Jaynes-Cummings model. New Journal of Physics, 22, 043008. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab7607)

Crickmore, J., Puthoor, I. V., Ricketti, B., Croke, S. , Hillery, M. and Andersson, E. (2020) Unambiguous quantum state elimination for qubit sequences. Physical Review Research, 2, 013256. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.013256)

2019

Selyem, A., Rosales-Guzmán, C., Croke, S. , Forbes, A. and Franke-Arnold, S. (2019) Basis-independent tomography and non-separability witnesses of pure complex vectorial light fields by Stokes projections. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 100, 063842. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.063842)

Flatt, K., Barnett, S. M. and Croke, S. (2019) Multiple-copy state discrimination of noisy qubits. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 100, 032122. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.032122)

Barnett, S. M. , Brougham, T., Croke, S. and Phoenix, S. J.D. (2019) Optimized attacks on twin-field quantum key distribution. Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics, 36(3), B122-B129. (doi: 10.1364/JOSAB.36.00B122)

Ritboon, A., Croke, S. and Barnett, S. M. (2019) Optical angular momentum transfer on total internal reflection. Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics, 36(2), pp. 482-492. (doi: 10.1364/JOSAB.36.000482)

2018

Flatt, K., Croke, S. and Barnett, S. M. (2018) Two-time state formalism for quantum eavesdropping. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 98, 052339. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.98.052339)

Vaccaro, J., Croke, S. and Barnett, S. (2018) Is coherence catalytic? Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 51(41), 414008. (doi: 10.1088/1751-8121/aac112)

Weir, G., Hughes, C., Barnett, S. M. and Croke, S. (2018) Optimal measurement strategies for the trine states with arbitrary prior probabilities. Quantum Science and Technology, 3(3), 035003. (doi: 10.1088/2058-9565/aabc68)

2017

Flatt, K., Barnett, S. M. and Croke, S. (2017) Gleason-Busch theorem for sequential measurements. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 96(6), 062125. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.96.062125)

Weir, G., Barnett, S. M. and Croke, S. (2017) Optimal discrimination of single-qubit mixed states. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 96(2), 022312. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.96.022312)

Ritboon, A., Croke, S. and Barnett, S. (2017) Proposed optical realisation of a two photon, four-qubit entangled χ state. Journal of Optics, 19(7), 075201. (doi: 10.1088/2040-8986/aa72af)

Croke, S. , Barnett, S. M. and Weir, G. (2017) Optimal sequential measurements for bipartite state discrimination. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 95(5), 052308. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.95.052308)

Trautmann, N., Ferenczi, G., Croke, S. and Barnett, S. M. (2017) Holographic quantum imaging: reconstructing spatial properties via two-particle interference. Journal of Optics, 19(5), 054005. (doi: 10.1088/2040-8986/aa67b6)

Croke, S. and Barnett, S. M. (2017) Difficulty of distinguishing product states locally. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 95(1), 012337. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.95.012337)

2015

Croke, S. (2015) PT-symmetric Hamiltonians and their application in quantum information. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 91(5), 052113. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.91.052113)

2014

Blume-Kohout, R., Croke, S. and Gottesman, D. (2014) Streaming universal distortion-free entanglement concentration. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 60(1), pp. 334-350. (doi: 10.1109/TIT.2013.2292135)

2013

Blume-Kohout, R., Croke, S. and Zwolak, M. (2013) Quantum data gathering. Scientific Reports, 3, 1800. (doi: 10.1038/srep01800) (PMCID:PMC3653145)

2012

Gottesman, D., Jennewein, T. and Croke, S. (2012) Longer-baseline telescopes using quantum repeaters. Physical Review Letters, 109(7), Art. 070503. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.070503)

Croke, S. and Kent, A. (2012) Security details for bit commitment by transmitting measurement outcomes. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 86(5), 052309. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.86.052309)

2010

Croke, S.M. , O'Sullivan, S.P. and Gabuzda, D.C. (2010) The parsec-scale distributions of intensity, linear polarization and Faraday rotation in the core and jet of Mrk 501 at 8.4-1.6 GHz. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 402(1), pp. 259-270. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15923.x)

Lu, Y., Coish, N., Kaltenbaek, R., Hamel, D.R., Croke, S. and Resch, K.J. (2010) Minimum-error discrimination of entangled quantum states. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 82(4), 042340. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.042340)

McEndoo, S., Croke, S. , Brophy, J. and Busch, T. (2010) Phase evolution in spatial dark states. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 81(4), 043640. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.043640)

2009

Barnett, S.M. and Croke, S. (2009) On the conditions for discrimination between quantum states with minimum error. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 42(6), 062001. (doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/42/6/062001)

Barnett, S.M. and Croke, S. (2009) Quantum state discrimination. Advances in Optics and Photonics, 1(2), pp. 238-278. (doi: 10.1364/AOP.1.000238)

2008

Croke, S.M. and Gabuzda, D.C. (2008) Aligning VLBI images of active galactic nuclei at different frequencies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 386(2), pp. 619-626. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13087.x)

Croke, S. , Barnett, S.M. and Stenholm, S. (2008) Linear transformations of quantum states. Annals of Physics, 323(4), pp. 893-906. (doi: 10.1016/j.aop.2007.06.001)

Croke, S. , Andersson, E. and Barnett, S.M. (2008) No-signaling bound on quantum state discrimination. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 77(1), 012113. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.012113)

2007

Croke, S. , Mosley, P.J., Barnett, S.M. and Walmsley, I.A. (2007) Maximum confidence measurements and their optical implementation. European Physical Journal D, 41(3), pp. 589-598. (doi: 10.1140/epjd/e2006-00265-1)

2006

Croke, S. , Andersson, E., Barnett, S.M. , Gilson, C.R. and Jeffers, J. (2006) Maximum confidence quantum measurements. Physical Review Letters, 96(7), 070401. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.070401)

Mosley, P., Croke, S. , Walmsley, I. and Barnett, S.M. (2006) Experimental realization of maximum confidence quantum state discrimination for the extraction of quantum information. Physical Review Letters, 97(19), p. 193601. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.193601)

2005

Croke, S. , Charlot, P., Gabuzda, D. and Sol, H. (2005) Multi-frequency multi-epoch VLBA polarization observations of MRK 501. Baltic Astronomy, 14(3), pp. 367-370.

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Number of items: 37.

Articles

Barnett, S. M. , Cresser, J. D. and Croke, S. (2024) Revisiting the damped quantum harmonic oscillator. Physica Scripta, 99(2), 025109. (doi: 10.1088/1402-4896/ad1902)

Croke, S. (2022) Multipartite subspaces containing no locally inaccessible information. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 106(3), 032421. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.106.032421)

Al Khafaji, M.A., Cisowski, C.M., Jimbrown, H., Croke, S. , Pádua, S. and Franke-Arnold, S. (2022) Single-shot characterization of vector beams by generalized measurements. Optics Express, 30(13), pp. 22396-22409. (doi: 10.1364/OE.458352) (PMID:36224938)

Spencer-Wood, H., Jeffers, J. and Croke, S. (2022) Measurement disturbance tradeoffs in three-qubit unsupervised quantum classification. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 105(6), 062447. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.105.062447)

Gao, S., Hayes, F. , Croke, S. , Messenger, C. and Veitch, J. (2022) Quantum algorithm for gravitational-wave matched filtering. Physical Review Research, 4(2), 023006. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.023006)

Messinger, A., Ritboon, A., Crimin, F. , Croke, S. and Barnett, S. (2020) Coherence and catalysis in the Jaynes-Cummings model. New Journal of Physics, 22, 043008. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab7607)

Crickmore, J., Puthoor, I. V., Ricketti, B., Croke, S. , Hillery, M. and Andersson, E. (2020) Unambiguous quantum state elimination for qubit sequences. Physical Review Research, 2, 013256. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.013256)

Selyem, A., Rosales-Guzmán, C., Croke, S. , Forbes, A. and Franke-Arnold, S. (2019) Basis-independent tomography and non-separability witnesses of pure complex vectorial light fields by Stokes projections. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 100, 063842. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.063842)

Flatt, K., Barnett, S. M. and Croke, S. (2019) Multiple-copy state discrimination of noisy qubits. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 100, 032122. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.032122)

Barnett, S. M. , Brougham, T., Croke, S. and Phoenix, S. J.D. (2019) Optimized attacks on twin-field quantum key distribution. Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics, 36(3), B122-B129. (doi: 10.1364/JOSAB.36.00B122)

Ritboon, A., Croke, S. and Barnett, S. M. (2019) Optical angular momentum transfer on total internal reflection. Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics, 36(2), pp. 482-492. (doi: 10.1364/JOSAB.36.000482)

Flatt, K., Croke, S. and Barnett, S. M. (2018) Two-time state formalism for quantum eavesdropping. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 98, 052339. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.98.052339)

Vaccaro, J., Croke, S. and Barnett, S. (2018) Is coherence catalytic? Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 51(41), 414008. (doi: 10.1088/1751-8121/aac112)

Weir, G., Hughes, C., Barnett, S. M. and Croke, S. (2018) Optimal measurement strategies for the trine states with arbitrary prior probabilities. Quantum Science and Technology, 3(3), 035003. (doi: 10.1088/2058-9565/aabc68)

Flatt, K., Barnett, S. M. and Croke, S. (2017) Gleason-Busch theorem for sequential measurements. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 96(6), 062125. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.96.062125)

Weir, G., Barnett, S. M. and Croke, S. (2017) Optimal discrimination of single-qubit mixed states. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 96(2), 022312. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.96.022312)

Ritboon, A., Croke, S. and Barnett, S. (2017) Proposed optical realisation of a two photon, four-qubit entangled χ state. Journal of Optics, 19(7), 075201. (doi: 10.1088/2040-8986/aa72af)

Croke, S. , Barnett, S. M. and Weir, G. (2017) Optimal sequential measurements for bipartite state discrimination. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 95(5), 052308. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.95.052308)

Trautmann, N., Ferenczi, G., Croke, S. and Barnett, S. M. (2017) Holographic quantum imaging: reconstructing spatial properties via two-particle interference. Journal of Optics, 19(5), 054005. (doi: 10.1088/2040-8986/aa67b6)

Croke, S. and Barnett, S. M. (2017) Difficulty of distinguishing product states locally. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 95(1), 012337. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.95.012337)

Croke, S. (2015) PT-symmetric Hamiltonians and their application in quantum information. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 91(5), 052113. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.91.052113)

Blume-Kohout, R., Croke, S. and Gottesman, D. (2014) Streaming universal distortion-free entanglement concentration. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 60(1), pp. 334-350. (doi: 10.1109/TIT.2013.2292135)

Blume-Kohout, R., Croke, S. and Zwolak, M. (2013) Quantum data gathering. Scientific Reports, 3, 1800. (doi: 10.1038/srep01800) (PMCID:PMC3653145)

Gottesman, D., Jennewein, T. and Croke, S. (2012) Longer-baseline telescopes using quantum repeaters. Physical Review Letters, 109(7), Art. 070503. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.070503)

Croke, S. and Kent, A. (2012) Security details for bit commitment by transmitting measurement outcomes. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 86(5), 052309. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.86.052309)

Croke, S.M. , O'Sullivan, S.P. and Gabuzda, D.C. (2010) The parsec-scale distributions of intensity, linear polarization and Faraday rotation in the core and jet of Mrk 501 at 8.4-1.6 GHz. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 402(1), pp. 259-270. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15923.x)

Lu, Y., Coish, N., Kaltenbaek, R., Hamel, D.R., Croke, S. and Resch, K.J. (2010) Minimum-error discrimination of entangled quantum states. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 82(4), 042340. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.042340)

McEndoo, S., Croke, S. , Brophy, J. and Busch, T. (2010) Phase evolution in spatial dark states. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 81(4), 043640. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.043640)

Barnett, S.M. and Croke, S. (2009) On the conditions for discrimination between quantum states with minimum error. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 42(6), 062001. (doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/42/6/062001)

Barnett, S.M. and Croke, S. (2009) Quantum state discrimination. Advances in Optics and Photonics, 1(2), pp. 238-278. (doi: 10.1364/AOP.1.000238)

Croke, S.M. and Gabuzda, D.C. (2008) Aligning VLBI images of active galactic nuclei at different frequencies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 386(2), pp. 619-626. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13087.x)

Croke, S. , Barnett, S.M. and Stenholm, S. (2008) Linear transformations of quantum states. Annals of Physics, 323(4), pp. 893-906. (doi: 10.1016/j.aop.2007.06.001)

Croke, S. , Andersson, E. and Barnett, S.M. (2008) No-signaling bound on quantum state discrimination. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 77(1), 012113. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.012113)

Croke, S. , Mosley, P.J., Barnett, S.M. and Walmsley, I.A. (2007) Maximum confidence measurements and their optical implementation. European Physical Journal D, 41(3), pp. 589-598. (doi: 10.1140/epjd/e2006-00265-1)

Croke, S. , Andersson, E., Barnett, S.M. , Gilson, C.R. and Jeffers, J. (2006) Maximum confidence quantum measurements. Physical Review Letters, 96(7), 070401. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.070401)

Mosley, P., Croke, S. , Walmsley, I. and Barnett, S.M. (2006) Experimental realization of maximum confidence quantum state discrimination for the extraction of quantum information. Physical Review Letters, 97(19), p. 193601. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.193601)

Croke, S. , Charlot, P., Gabuzda, D. and Sol, H. (2005) Multi-frequency multi-epoch VLBA polarization observations of MRK 501. Baltic Astronomy, 14(3), pp. 367-370.

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Teaching

Tutorials and Supervisions

  • Physics 4: Supervisions (S1) P4H
  • Physics 4: Supervisions (S2) P4H

Workshops

  • Problem Solving Workshop PHYS5012
  • Physics Communication Workshops PHYS1001

Lectures

  • Quantum Theory PHYS4026

Research datasets

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2022

Al Khafaji, M. A., Cisowski, C. M., Jimbrown, H., Croke, S. , Padua, S. and Franke-Arnold, S. (2022) Single-shot characterization of vector beams by generalized measurements. [Data Collection]

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