Research expertise
The theory group at the Center of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences led by prof. M. Matuszewski, has extensive expertise in polariton systems theory, with a strong track record of collaborations with leading experimental and theoretical groups. The group specializes in nonlinear phenomena in optical and condensed matter systems. Past achievements of Prof. Matuszewski include the first proposal of a polariton reservoir neural network followed by its experimental realization.
Role in QUONDENSATE
The main contribution of CTP PAS to the project will be the development of new designs and architectures of quantum reservoirs as well as theoretical and numerical analysis of the system.
The people:
Dr. Juan Camilo Lopez Carreno: Assistant Professor – Quondensate funded
Camilo is an expert in the quantum optical aspects of light-matter interaction. His Ph.D. training was done under the supervision of Dr Elena del Valle and Dr Fabrice Laussy at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where he addressed the topic of sources of Quantum Light—both at the single- and multi-photon level—and the regimes of excitation that can be reached by systems that are driven with these rather than by sources of classical light. He graduated with a cum laude mention, and was awarded the prize for the best theoretical thesis of 2020 by the Spanish Royal Society of Physics.
Between 2018 and 2021, Camilo worked as a Teaching Associate at the University of Wolverhampton (UK). There, together with Prof Laussy, he established and developed the Physics Department, carrying a wide range of activities: from preparing and delivering undergraduate lectures and problem sessions, to organising dissemination activities devoted to advertising the University and attracting students to the Physics program; all while also progressing with research problems involving photon correlations in fundamental quantum systems.
In 2021, Camilo moved to the University of Warsaw, where he carried out his first fully independent research projects, funded by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) and the Polish National Science Center (NCN), which were devoted to the theoretical description of exciton-polaritons in the few-particle regime, as well as the study of the correlations that arise from them upon excitation with quantum light. Later on, he joined the Exciton-Polariton group of Prof Barbara Piętka at the University of Warsaw.
Currently, Camilo is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Theoretical Physics at the Polish Academy of Sciences (CTP PAS), where he works as part of the Theory Group led by Prof Michał Matuszewski.
QUONDENSATE related papers:
- Andrzej Opala, Sanjib Ghosh, Timothy C.H. Liew, Michał Matuszewski
Neuromorphic Computing in Ginzburg-Landau Polariton-Lattice Systems
Phys. Rev. Applied 11, 064029 (2019). - Sanjib Ghosh, Andrzej Opala, Michał Matuszewski, Tomasz Paterek, Timothy C. H. Liew
Quantum reservoir processing
NPJ Quantum Information 5, 35 (2019).
Centrum Fizyki Teoretycznej PAN
The Center for Theoretical Physics brings together researchers from various fields related to theoretical physics, astrophysics and natural sciences: classical and quantum field theory, quantum optics, basics of quantum mechanics and quantum information theory, physics of new states of matter, cosmology and astronomy.
