Institut de Ciències Fotòniques
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Spectral phase control of nanoscale nonlinear optical responses
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-06-08)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe study of light-driven physical processes generated in nanomaterials require shorter (in time, or broader in frequency) laser pulses with techniques to tailor its phase and temporal/spectral characteristics at the ... -
Levitation and control of particles with internal degrees of freedom
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-06-30)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessLevitodynamics is a fast growing field that studies the levitation and manipulation of micro- and nanoobjects, fuelled by both fundamental physics questions and technological applications. Due to the isolated nature of ... -
Imaging cytometry technology for environmental and biomedical applications
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-07-28)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessEarly detection of microorganisms in environmental and biomedical applications is critical for the effective response to potential pathogenic treats. Most traditional methods and instrumentation for the analysis of these ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Novel continuous-wave infrared parametric sources and noise analysis of infrared upconversion detectors
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-06-04)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe ability to manipulate frequency of light, through parametric frequency conversion sources based on X(2) nonlinear materials, offers an effective route to spectral regions unapproachable by conventional lasers. Most ... -
Study of graphene hybrid heterostructures for linear and nonlinear optics
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-06-23)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessGraphene is the first of the 2D-material family. It is formed by carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice, which confers it intriguing physical properties that are still being discovered nowadays. A fundamental advantage ... -
Levitodynamics on-a-chip: from planar Paul traps to near-field optical nanocavities
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-07-09)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe field of levitation optomechanics---or levitodynamics---studies the manipulation and control of small trapped objects in an isolated environment, providing a gateway to answer fundamental questions in physics and ... -
Development and application of localization-based microscopy methods to study the structure and dynamics of chromatin through the process of cellular differentiation
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-04-24)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessRecent advancements in single-molecule localization-based microscopy have made it possible to visualize biological structures and dynamic processes within the cell with unprecedented spatial resolution. Determining the ... -
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 ... -
Ultrafast carrier and structural dynamics in graphite detected via attosecond soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-03-26)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessUnderstanding most of the physical and chemical phenomena determining the world around us requires the possibility to interrogate their main characters on their natural scale in space and time. The insulating or conductive ... -
Two-component Bose-Einstein condensates with competing interactions
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-02-10)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThis thesis reports the experimental study of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates with tunable interactions, which are exploited as a platform to perform quantum simulation of many-body quantum systems. To perform ...
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