Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Theory and experiments with quantum fluids of light

Wednesday, 5th Dicember 2012. 12:00-13:00 Iacopo Carusotto (INO-CNR BEC Center and Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Trento) ABSTRACT: A few years after the first observation of Bose-Einstein condensation, quantum gases of dressed photons in...

The Nobel prize in Physics 2012

Wednesday, 28th November 2012. 12:00-13:00 Fabrice P. Laussy (Depto. Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada, UAM) ABSTRACT: This year’s Nobel prize honored, through the work of Haroche and Wineland, the physics of light-matter interaction...

A new tool for particle hydrodynamics at different scales

Monday, 22nd October 2012. 15:00-16:00 Pawel Hawrylak Emerging Technologies Division, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada ABSTRACT: We briefly review electronic and optical properties of graphite and graphene, atomically thin layer of carbon...

Ultrafast switching of semiconductor microcavities

Wednesday, 10th October 2012. 12:00-13:00 Georgios Ctistis Complex Photonic Systems, MESA+ Institute & Dept. of Science and Technology, University of Twente, The Netherlands ABSTRACT: The interest in all-optical switching of photonic nanostructures is rapidly...

Improvement of STM Resolution with H-sensitized Tips

Wednesday, 3th October 2012. 12:00-13:00 José Ignacio Martínez Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada, UAM ABSTRACT: The general motivation for this contribution is the remarkable attention that the improvement of spatial resolution...

Digital Quantum Simulation with Rydberg Atoms and Ions

Wednesday, 9th May 2012. 12:00-13:00 Digital Quantum Simulation with Rydberg Atoms and Ions Markus Müller Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid ABSTRACT: A universal quantum simulator is a controlled quantum device that...