Category: Research Highlights

Cooling By Cooper Pair Splitting

Article: published in Physical Review B selected as an “Editor’s Suggestion” paper by Rafael Sánchez and Alfredo Levy Yeyati, IFIMAC researchers and members of the Department of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics. The electrons forming a...

Radiative Heat Transfer

Article: published in ACS Photonics by Juan Carlos Cuevas and Francisco J. García-Vidal, IFIMAC researchers and members of the Department of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics. Thermal radiation is one of the most ubiquitous physical phenomena, and its...

Frequency-resolved Monte Carlo

Article: published in Scientific Reports by Juan Camilo López Carreño, Elena del Valle, members of the Department of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics. The Monte Carlo method, devised by Ulam in the 1940s, relies on...

Resonant Tunneling in Protein-based Junctions

Article: published in PNAS by Juan Carlos Cuevas, IFIMAC researcher and member of the Department of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics. Proteins play a fundamental role in numerous biological energy conversion processes such as photosynthesis,...

Peltier Cooling in Molecular Junctions

Article: published in Nature Nanotechnology by Linda Angela Zotti, member of the Department of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics and Juan Carlos Cuevas, IFIMAC researcher and member of the Department of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics....

Triggering Many Molecular Reactions With a Single Photon

Article: published in Physical Review Letters by Javier Galego, Francisco J. Garcia-Vidal, and Johannes Feist, IFIMAC researchers and members of the Department of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics. Photoisomerization is a chemical process in which...