Padrón Brito, María Auxiliadora (Date of defense: 2021-04-08)
Photons are good candidates for carrying quantum information because they are very stable particles: they interact weakly with the medium and barely with each other. However, this has drawbacks when ...
Winkler, Pamina M. (Date of defense: 2020-11-27)
The cell membrane is the encompassing protective shield of every cell and it is composed of a multitude of proteins, lipids and other molecules. The organization of the cell membrane is inextricably ...
Sanz Paz, Maria (Date of defense: 2020-07-27)
Photonic antennas are metallic (or dielectric) nanoscale structures that convert propagating light into highly confined fields, and vice versa, in analogy to common radio antennas but on nanometric ...
Palombo Blascetta, Nicola (Date of defense: 2021-03-24)
The study of light-matter interaction at the nanoscale is a very promising field of research, providing the possibility to manipulate the interaction with single quantum systems like single atoms, ...
Julià Farré, Sergi (Date of defense: 2022-06-28)
The last decades have witnessed impressive technical advances in all the fields of quantum science, including solid-state systems or atomic, molecular, and optical physics, allowing one to control ...
Aloy López, Albert (Date of defense: 2020-07-16)
Entanglement and non-local correlations give rise to unprecedented phenomena with no classical analogue. As a result, they have settled themselves as fundamental properties in the study of quantum ...
De Santis, Dario (Date of defense: 2021-06-22)
The formulation of quantum physics stands among the most revolutionary theories of the twentieth century. During the first decades of this century, many phenomena concerning the microscopic world were ...
Nandy, Biplob Kumar (Date of defense: 2020-12-02)
Tunable narrow-linewidth and broadband laser sources in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) wavelength range are extremely desirable in all time scales for their several useful applications in spectroscopy, ...
Alcaraz Iranzo, David (Date of defense: 2020-06-23)
Graphene is the first of the 2D-material family. It is formed by carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice, which confers it intriguing physical properties that are still being discovered nowadays. ...
Prakash, Vindhiya (Date of defense: 2021-12-16)
This thesis describes experimental work to generate and characterise single photons and photon pairs, with frequency content suitable for controlled interaction with cold rubidium atoms. We describe a ...