My research interests include:
-Fundamental studies of quantum mechanics
-Optical quantum information resources including single-photon sources, single-photon detectors, sources of entanglement, quantum random number generators, and adaptive optics
-Applications such as quantum key distribution, quantum state and process tomography, quantum state creation and remote preparation, hyperentanglement-enhanced quantum communication, quantum-enhanced precision measurements, and quantum memory
-The interaction of quantum states of light with biological systems, including the human visual system
Professor Mukamel's interests focus on theoretical studies of ultrafast dynamics and relaxation processes of large molecules, biological complexes and semiconductors. Optical spectroscopic techniques provide a sensitive probe for molecular motions with rapidly improving temporal, spectral, and spatial resolution. Professor Mukamel's group develops and applies many-body Green function techniques for calculating dynamical processes, and explores the ways they can be probed using linear and nonlinear optical techniques. Recent applications include the studies of nonlinear response of conjugated polymers, biological light harvesting complexes, proteins, and optical nonlinearities in semiconductors, cooperative spontaneous emission (superradiance) in molecular aggregates, long-range biological electron transfer, collective nonlinear response and fluorescence of molecular nanostructures, and effects of chaos in quantum and classical optical response.
I’ve been interested in the extraordinary properties of light for more than four decades. This has motivated our group’s research across experimental quantum and ultrafast optics and optical engineering, with applications to quantum information and quantum technologies.
Specific current areas of research include: the preparation and measurement of non-classical states in light and matter; applications to sensing and simulation; photonic quantum memories to enable scalable quantum networks.
- Professor at KTH: teaching and research on quantum photonics devices.
- Chief Science Officer and co-founder at Single Quantum.
- Specialty Chief Editor in quantum optics at Frontiers in Photonics
- Chief Science Officer and co-founder at Quantum Scopes
Charlotte completed her PhD in engineering physics from École Polytechnique de Montreal in December 2021, under the supervision of Professors Patrick Desjardins and Richard Martel. Her thesis focused on the encapsulation of organic molecules in carbon and boron nitride nanotubes, for which she investigated the encapsulation mechanism as well as biomedical applications. Charlotte joined Nature Reviews Materials in March 2022 as an Associate Editor.
Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus is an Assistant Professor of Microengineering at the Institute of Electro and Microengineering at EPFL. She is also a Research Associate affiliated with the group of Prof. Federico Capasso at Harvard University.
Prior to her appointment, she was a Postdoctoral scientist and SNF fellow in the group of Prof. Federico Capasso at Harvard University, USA in the John A. Harvard school of engineering and applied sciences. She holds a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and a Master Degree with distinction in Optics and Photonics – both from KIT, Germany. She obtained her Ph.D. thesis in Experimental Physics in the group of Prof. Jérôme Faist at ETH Zurich on quantum science.
Her laboratory, the Hybrid Photonics Laboratory at EPFL tackles questions revolving around quantum sensing and metrology on ultra-fast time-scales and generation and synthesis of far-infrared waveforms at will. For this, they research the latest nonlinear integrated photonics technologies.
Former academic (physicist) who works in the quantum computing industry by day and thinks about how to do curiosity-driven research by night.
Technical Program Manager at IBM Quantum.
Physicists in the Wild podcast: Interviews with physicists who left academia (audio and video).
Animesh Datta is a Professor of Theoretical Physics and leads the quantum information science group at the University of Warwick, UK.
He is interested in most aspects of quantum information science, investigating topics theoretically with fundamental aspects in mind, but also driven by experimental challenges and technological ramifications that require new theoretical rethinking.
His present research activities focus on quantum sensing (theory and practice of multi-parameter quantum metrology, imaging, spectroscopy), quantum algorithms, simulations, computations, and accreditation, quantum sensing at the gravity-quantum interface, and quantumness in complex systems, including quantum effects in biology.
He is an Associate Editor of Optica Quantum and an Editorial Board Member of the Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences
Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański is professor at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw. His main field of interest is quantum information theory with special focus on quantum estimation, quantum metrology
Present research topics:
- fundamental limits to general quantum metrological protocols in presence of noise
- bounds on stability of quantum enhanced atomic clocks
- quantum enhanced atomic interferometry in presence of many body losses
- radiation pressure effects in quantum enhanced optical interferometry
- thermodynamical aspect of quantum metrological protocols.
Fabio Pezzoli is Associate Professor at the Department of Materials Science of the University of Milano-Bicocca. He had been visiting student at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz and conducted postdoctoral work at the Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung in Stuttgart and at the Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden. He investigated spin-dependent phenomena in condensed matter physics with special focus on experimental techniques based on light-matter interaction. He addressed fundamental properties and application possibilities of semiconductor architectures and low dimensional structures exploring advanced applications of quantum technologies. He was the recipient of the award for young physicists from the Italian Physical Society. Presently, he leads research activities on spin physics and photonics based on group IV materials. He is affiliated to Bicocca Quantum Technologies and member of the National Quantum Science Technology Institute.
We research the potential of spectral-temporal encoding for the processing of quantum information. Our interests include experimental implementations of multidimensional quantum-enhanced metrology. We explore highly efficient, fiber-compatible quantum cryptography protocols. We look for applications of time-energy entanglement.
Stéphane Kéna-Cohen is an expert on light-matter interaction and optoelectronic devices based on molecular and 2D semiconductors. Over several years, his group has realized pioneering experiments in the strong light-matter coupling regime, ranging from Bose-Einstein condensation of polaritons to room-temperature superfluidity of light. On the device side, his group recently demonstrated the first 2D material mid-infrared LEDs and record-efficiency IR OLEDs.
Founder and President of TOPTICA.
Being infected by Cold Atom Physics as a PhD student at the Institute of Quantum Optics in Hannover, and being part of the technology of Prof. Hänsch's group at the Max-Planck-Institute in Garching, Dr. Wilhelm Kaenders started a successful business activity with tunable diode laser technology. "Frequency Division" in the early days and "Frequency Combing" today, have started the Passion of Precision and are still the driving force in TOPTICA's extended scientific product range on its way to mature markets.
Full Professor at the Department of Physics, ETH Zürich
His central role in the invention and first demonstration of the quantum cascade (QC) laser in 1994 was recognised by the IEE premium (1995), the IEEE/LEOS William Streifer award (1998), the Michael Lunn award (1999), the ISCS "Young scientist award" (1999), and the Swiss National Latsis Prize (2003).
His present interests are the development of high performance QC lasers in the Mid and Far-infrared and the physics of coherence in intersubband transitions in the presence of strong magnetic fields.
Oussama Moutanabbir is a Full Professor of Engineering Physics at Polytechnique Montreal
who held a Canada Research Chair (2012-2022) in Nano and Quantum Semiconductors. His
main work focused on epitaxial group IV semiconductors and their integration in photonic,
optoelectronic, and quantum devices. Before joining Polytechnique Montreal, he worked at Max
Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics (Germany). Between 2018 and 2023, he led a
national network on compact mid-infrared and terahertz photonics funded by Defence Canada
through the Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (DND-IDEaS) program. Under the
same DND program, he is currently leading a second network on On-Chip Mid-Infrared
Quantum Sensors. He is the founding director of PolyAPT– a multi-institutional facility for Atom
Probe Tomography. His collaborative work with Sherbrooke and Teledyne-Dalsa, leading to the
development and commercialization of uncooled thermal cameras, received the ADRIQ’s
Innovation Award, the ADRIQ’s University-Industry Partnership Award, and the 2019 NSERC’s
Synergy Award. He received the 2022 Leibniz IKZ International Award for his contributions to
group IV semiconductor quantum engineering.