Dressing the vacuum: Strong light-matter coupling for enhancing photon correlations and exciton transport

• Autores: Rocio Sáez Blázquez
• Directores de la Tesis: Francisco J. García Vidal (dir. tes.), Antonio I. Fernández Domínguez (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid ( España ) en 2020
• Idioma: inglés
• Número de páginas: 288
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Francesca Maria Marchetti (presid.), Ferry Prins (secret.), Rubén Esteban Llorente (voc.), Päivi Törmä (voc.), Said Rahimzadeh Kalaleh Rodriguez (voc.)
• Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Física de la Materia Condensada, Nanociencia y Biofísica por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; la Universidad de Murcia y la Universidad de Oviedo
• Materias:
  • Física
    • Óptica
    • Química física
      • Teoría cuántica
    • Física teórica
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  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: Biblos-e Archivo
• Resumen

  • Strong light-matter coupling enables the creation of mixed light-matter states, the so-called polaritons, whose hybrid character has been used to achieve new functionalities. Diverse applications exploit either the light or the matter component of these hybrid objects, such that excitons may benefit from their electromagnetic environment, or photons may turn the presence of matter excitations to their advantage. This thesis is devoted to the study of two phenomena emerging within the strong coupling regime where the two mentioned perspectives are addressed: (i) photon correlations are generated due to the coupling to an excitonic system, and (ii) exciton transport is enhanced due to the coupling to a photonic mode.