Quantum Optics Theory
Prof. Dr. Maciej Lewenstein
maciej.lewenstein@icfo.euActivities
The Quantum Optics Theory (QOT) group works on a wide range of topics of theoretical physics from quantum optics aand laser physics through quantum information science and quantum technologies to quantum field theory.
The group works on a very broad spectrum of problems: from standard quantum optics, through physics of matter in ultra-intense and ultra-short laser pulses; atto-second physics, through quantum information theory (mathematical foundations and implementations in atomic, quantum optical and condensed matter systems, quantum simulators, quantum technologies); physics of ultracold/degenerate gases of atoms, ions, molecules, photons (from weakly interacting systems, non-linear atom optics or optics to strongly correlated systems, lattice gases, Hubbard models etc.). More recent lines of research include classical and quantum machine learning, as well as studies of anomalous diffusion in biology and soft condensed matter.
- We are hiring:
- PhD and Postdoctoral level positions available. Please contact Prof. Dr. Maciej Lewenstein for further information.
Group Research Interests
Collaborations
Experimental groups:
- Carsten Klempt/Eberhard Tiemann (University of Hannover)
- Gerhard Birkl (University of Darmstadt)
- Klaus Sengstock/Christof Weitenberg (University of Hamburg)
- Christof Weitenberg (University of Dortmund)
- Jens Biegert/ Maria García-Parajo/ Frank Koppens/ Morgan Mitchell/ Juan P. Torres/ Leticia Tarruel/ Adrian Bachtold (ICFO)
- Alain Aspect (Institute d'Optique, Palaiseau)
- Ian Spielman (NIST, Gaithersburg MD)
- Jean Dalibard (ENS, Paris)
- Paris Tzallas (FORTH, Heraklion)
Theory Groups:
- Laurent Sanchez-Palencia (EP, Palaiseau)
- Montserrat Guillemas/Bruno Júlia Díaz/Luca Tagliacozzo (UB)
- Jakub Zakrzewski/Krzysztof Sacha (UJ, Cracow)
- Anna Sanpera (GIC, UAB)
- Peter Zoller (University of Innsbruck)
- J. Ignacio Cirac (MPI Garching)
- Luis Santos (University Hannover)
- Philipp Hauke (Univeristy of Trento)
- Dagmar Bruß (University of Düsseldorf)
- Janek Wehr (Tucson, Arizona)
- Marek Kuś / Mariusz Gajda/ Tomasz Sowiński (CFT, Warsaw)
- Jan Samsonowicz (PW, Warsaw)
- Antonio Acin/Darrick Chang(ICFO)
- Michat Horodecki/Ryszard Horodecki (UG, Gdansk)
- Pawel Horodecki (PG, Gdansk)
- Veronica Ahufinger (GO, UAB)
- Aditi Sen De, Ujjwal Sen (HCI, Allahabad)
- Gediminas Juzeliunas (Vilnius)
- Alejandro Bermudez (CSIC Madrid)
- Miguel Angel Martin Delgado (Madrid)
- German Sierra (Madrid)
- Gergely Szirmai, Edina Szirmai (Budapest)
- Markus Müller (RWTH Aachen)
- Carla Faria de Morrison (UCL, London)
- Manabendra Bera (IIS, Mohali)
- Debraj Rakshit (IIS, Varanasi)
- Emilio Pisanty/Misha Ivanov/Olga Smirnova (MBI, Berlin)
- Jordi Tura, Anna Łętowska (Uni Leiden, the Netherlands)
- Irénée Frérot (Uni Grenoble, France)
- Emilia Witkowska (IFPAN, Warsaw, Poland)
- Javier Argüello-Luengo (UPC)
Funding
- AIE National Plan Stameena 2024-2026 (Quantum and STAtistical Physics MEEts QuaNtum InformAtion)
- EU FET OPTOlogic 2020-2025
- PPCC Accionas Complementarias Recovery Funds (2023-2025)
Resources Available
Expertise in quantum optics, atomic physics, nonlinear dynamics, statistical physics, quantum field theory, many body systems, disordered systems, neural networks, machine learning, quantum information, foundations of quantum mechanics, numerical and analytic methods of many body systems (renormalization group, mean-field approaches, exact diagonalization, tensor networks, Monte Carlo methods), entanglement theory, quantum metrology, quantum random processes, quantum protocols, and certification of quantum correlations.