Quantum Optics with Atomic Arrays

Maria Moreno-Cardoner (Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, University of Barcelona)

ABSTRACT: 

Ordered arrays of atoms in the sub-wavelength regime represent a novel promising platform that can be exploited for quantum optics applications. After revising the theoretical framework that can be used to efficiently describe atom-light interactions and collective radiative phenomena in these systems, we will show that it is possible to outperform previously established bounds in the fidelity of certain quantum optics protocols, in comparison to more diluted disordered atomic ensembles.

RECOMMENDED PAPERS: 

A Asenjo-Garcia, et al., Physical Review X 7, 031024  (2017) (arXiv:1703.03382) (recommended sections I and II).

BIO:
M. Moreno-Cardoner is a lecturer at the Faculty of Physics and the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona. She is currently working at the interface between many-body physics and quantum optics. Her doctoral studies on strongly correlated ultracold gases trapped in optical lattices where supervised by Prof. B. Paredes and realized in close collaboration with the experimental group of Prof. I. Bloch. During three years she has been a postdoctoral researcher in the Theoretical Quantum Nanophotonics group led by Prof. D. Chang at ICFO. She has also worked in the groups of Prof. A. Sanpera (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Prof. G. De Chiara (Queen’s University Belfast), and more recently Prof. H. Ritsch (University of Innsbruck). During this time she has been working on several topics ranging from condensed-matter physics to quantum nanophotonics.