Quantum Physics and Photonics

Areas

  • Quantum gases. Cold and ultracold atomic gases as well as associated statistical and thermodynamic physics. Phase diagrams. Superconductivity, superfluidity and other phenomena associated with quantum correlations. Turbulence and topological excitations.

  • Optical control of micro-particles and atomic systems. Optimization of the interaction between light and matter. Structured light (classical and quantum) and its dynamic properties when interacting with matter. Rydberg atoms. nonlinear quantum optics in atomic crystals and gases.

  • Quantum correlations and their applications using electromagnetic fields and material systems. Quantum fluctuations. Coherence in quantum systems. Quantum tomography. Quantum metrology.

  • Dynamics of classical and quantum open systems at different scales: individual atoms, nanostructures and other meso and macroscopic systems. Quantum simulators. Quantum integrability.

  • Classical and quantum fields under controlled external conditions. Quantum mechanics fundamentals. Semiclassical limits of quantum systems. Analogies between wave fields.