The conversion of laser light into quantum light is one of the requisite of tomorrow’s quantum technology. A popular trick to do so is the so-called polariton blockade, where the incoming classical light is...
When light is absorbed in organic materials, its energy is converted into excitons (electronic excitations) that normally move around by “hopping” from molecule to molecule. This is important in photosynthesis or solar cells, for...
The Condensed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC) has been awarded with a “María de Maeztu” grant corresponding to the Excelent Research Centers 2014 program financed by the Spanish I+D+i secretary. This grant will provide to...
When a normal metal is brought in contact with a superconductor, Cooper pairs may leak into the metal inducing genuine superconducting properties in it, an effect generically referred to as proximity effect. In particular,...
Thermal radiation plays a major role in energy conversion, thermal management, and data storage. In recent years, several experiments on thermal radiation between bulk materials have demonstrated that radiative heat transfer can be greatly...
In a recent Nature Physics News & Views article entitled ‘Disorder sets Light straight’ Jorge Bravo-Abad discusses the fascinating discovery of light supercollimation assisted by transverse Anderson localization. Abstract: Non-diffractive light propagation based on...
In this work we demonstrate that simple dc current measurements can reveal the presence of electronic entanglement between two interacting nanowires. The effect is based on spin-charge separation, a non-Fermi liquid property characteristic of...
The full control of Rabi oscillations in polaritonic semiconductor microcavities has been demonstrated and theorized by researchers of the department (D. Colas, J. P. Restrepo Cuartas, J. C. López Carreño, E. del Valle and F. P. Laussy)...
A single G4-DNA molecule has been shown to be able to transport charge over very long distances by Livshits et al. whose findings have been published in Nature Nanotechnology. Abstract: DNA and DNA-based polymers...
A new type of light has been theorized by C. Sánchez Muñoz et al. whose findings have been published in Nature Photonics. Abstract: Controlling the output of a light emitter is one of the...
