Browsing by Contributor "Lewenstein, Maciej"
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A general framework for information-work interconvertibility in the quantum regime
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-09)
Master thesis
Open AccessIn this theoretical work we study three theorems that establish limitations to three basic processes in thermodynamics: an adiabatic process, an erasure process and a work extraction process. We propose a theoretical setting ... -
A machine learning ride in the physics theme park: from quantum to biophysics
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2024-04-24)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) The integration of artificial intelligence into research is propelling progress and discoveries across the entire scientific landscape. Artificial intelligence tools boost the development of novel scientific ... -
Anomalous diffusion : from life to machines
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-11-09)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessDiffusion refers to numerous phenomena, by which particles and bodies of all kinds move throughout any kind of material, has emerged as one of the most prominent subjects in the study of complex systems. Motivated by the ... -
Applications of a quantum random number generator to simulations in condense matter physics
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-10-15)
Master thesis
Open Access
Covenantee: Institut de Ciències Fotòniques (ICFO)We study the importance of the quality of random numbers in Monte Carlo simulations of 2D Ising systems. Simulations are carried out at critical temperature to find the dynamic scaling law of the linear relaxation time. ... -
Applications of machine learning to studies of quantum phase transitions
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-09-06)
Master thesis
Open AccessIn the past years Machine Learning has shown to be a useful tool in quantum many-body physics to detect phase transitions. Being able to identify phases via machine learning introduces the question of how did the algorithm ... -
A cold-atom approach to topological quantum matter across the energy scale
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-12-11)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe outstanding progress achieved in the last decades to isolate and manipulate individual quantum systems has revolutionized the way in which quantum many-body phenomena, appearing across Nature's different energy scales, ... -
Complex systems for quantum technologies
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2011-07-12)
Doctoral thesis
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Condensed matter meets deep learning: from spins to neurons
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-09-09)
Master thesis
Open AccessIn the recent years, Machine Learning (ML) techniques have irrupted in many sectors, from industry to scientific research, and is expected that their presence will grow even more in upcoming years. While their use grows, ... -
Controlling interactions in quantum materials : from a microscopic description to quantum simulation
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-06-28)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe last decades have witnessed impressive technical advances in all the fields of quantum science, including solid-state systems or atomic, molecular, and optical physics, allowing one to control materials at the microscopic ... -
Detection of quantum phase transitions via machine learning algorithms
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-08-31)
Master thesis
Open AccessA Neural Network is trained to classify Mott Insulator and Superfluid phases in an optical lattice using data generated with Diffusion Monte Carlo algorithms (DMC). The trained model is used to predict the phase transition ... -
Dynamics of quantum mixtures
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-09-08)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessAt sufficiently low temperatures, fluids of bosonic particles may undergo a phase transition, below which a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) forms. The BEC is one of the most fundamental concepts in many-body quantum physics ... -
Dynamics of spinor fermions
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2014-11-03)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessUltracold atomic gases have established themselves as quantum systems, which are clean and offer a high degree of control over crucial parameters. They are well isolated from their environment and thus offer the possibility ... -
Entanglement and Bell correlations in strongly correlated many-body quantum systems
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-03-30)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessDuring the past two decades, thanks to the mutual fertilization of the research in quantum information and condensed matter, new approaches based on purely quantum features without any classical analog turned out to be ... -
Exact diagonalization studies of quantum simulators
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-04-15)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessUnderstand and tame complex quantum mechanical systems to build quantum technologies is one of the most important scientific endeavour nowadays. In this effort, Atomic, molecular and Optical systems have clearly played a ... -
Experimental evidence for the quantum condensation of ultracold dipolar excitons
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2014-05-28)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessIn this thesis, we report experimental evidence of a "gray" condensate of excitons, as predicted theoretically by M. Combescot et al. Most importantly, the condensate is characterized by the macroscopic population of dark ... -
Exploring quantum many-body systems from an entanglement and nonlocality perspective
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-07-16)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessEntanglement and non-local correlations give rise to unprecedented phenomena with no classical analogue. As a result, they have settled themselves as fundamental properties in the study of quantum many-body systems, as ... -
Extracting relevant physical parameters with ß-variational autoencoders
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-09-09)
Master thesis
Open AccessDuring the last years, machine learning techniques have been applied todiscover properties of physical systems. However, these algorithms are black boxesand there is a need for tools to interpret them. ... -
Harnessing quantum dynamics: heat engines, negative temperatures, and dynamical spectroscopy
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-07-28)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) n this thesis, our main objective is to utilize different kinds of quantum dynamics as resources. To do so, we investigate thermodynamics, non-equilibrium steady states, and dynamical spectroscopy in order to ... -
Investigating quantum many-body systems with tensor networks, machine learning and quantum computers
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-10-14)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) We perform quantum simulation on classical and quantum computers and set up a machine learning framework in which we can map out phase diagrams of known and unknown quantum many-body systems in an unsupervised ... -
Investigations of topological phases for quasi-1D systems
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-07-13)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessFor a long time, quantum states of matter have been successfully characterized by the Ginzburg-Landau formalism that was able to classify all different types of phase transitions. This view changed with the discovery of ...