Sanfeliu Cerdán, Neus (Date of defense: 2024-03-12)
(English) In recent years, our understanding of the ion channels and receptors that orchestrate the conversion of physical stimuli into physiological signals has deepened significantly. Nevertheless, ...
Afridi, Adeel (Date of defense: 2023-04-28)
(English) Optical metasurfaces established themselves as potential platform for planar and integrated optics. Progress in the material sciences and fabrication process paves the way towards ultra-thin ...
Barcons Ruiz, David (Date of defense: 2023-07-11)
(English) Graphene has revolutionized the field of condensed matter physics over the last two decades, emerging as an outstanding research platform. This is because graphene electrons behave as massless ...
Bera, Mohit Lal (Date of defense: 2023-07-28)
(English) n this thesis, our main objective is to utilize different kinds of quantum dynamics as resources. To do so, we investigate thermodynamics, non-equilibrium steady states, and dynamical ...
Kobayashi Frisk, Lisa (Date of defense: 2023-07-14)
(English) The brain is an organ with a large energy budget compared to its volume and weight and constantly requires oxygen-rich blood to meet its metabolic needs. Given this fact, a tool that enables ...
Mazzinghi, Chiara (Date of defense: 2023-07-26)
(English) In this work we propose and demonstrate cavity-enhanced polarization rotation to detect magnetic effects in transparent media with greater sensitivity at equal optical disturbance to the atomic ...
Scandi, Matteo (Date of defense: 2023-07-13)
(English) The modern understanding of physics is deeply linked with the concept of information. The revival of the study of quantum mechanics in the form of quantum information is just an example of a ...
Das, Ipsita (Date of defense: 2023-05-24)
(English) The discovery of two dimensional materials opened a unique pathway to study the electronic properties of quantum materials which are otherwise absent in bulk systems. Soon after the discovery ...
Rakonjac, Jelena Velibor (Date of defense: 2023-06-26)
(English) Future networks for quantum communication will require a new form of technology in order to operate over long distances. The no-cloning theorem precludes the use of amplification, so quantum ...
Abiuso, Paolo (Date of defense: 2022-12-12)
(English) In this thesis, we study the optimization of operational tasks that involve the manipulation of quantum resources. In most cases, such optimizations are aided by understanding the geometric ...