Nanoelectronics and photonics
The last decade has witnessed unprecedented developments in the fabrication of nanoelectronic and nanophotonic devices and microlasers based upon quantum electronic and quantum optical effects which have no classical analogue. The combination of these properties opens up a new territory in fundamental science.
Our research lays the theoretical foundations for the cooperative interplay of electrons and photons in quantum conductors, quantum dots, mesoscopic and superconducting circuits, and micro-cavity lasers. This brings together concepts of mesoscopic physics, quantum optics, quantum dynamics, and electronic correlations.
Schematic diagram of a nanometer-sized constriction in a quantum-mechanical conductor (bottom) and the energy range of electronic states (top), showing excitations of electrons (black dots) and holes (white dots) when a voltage V is applied. Electronic transitions (arrows) can be used to generate photons (of frequency ω) with non-classical properties.
Radiation pattern of an annular dielectric microresonator
List of publications
| Nonexponential decoherence and momentum subdiffusion in a quantum Levy kicked rotator Physical Review Letters 98, 260401 (2007) |  |
| Correcting ray optics at curved dielectric microresonator interfaces: Phase-space unification of Fresnel filtering and the Goos-Hanchen shift Physical Review Letters 96, 243903 (2006) | |
| Quantum-to-classical correspondence in open chaotic systems Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and General 38, 10663 (2005) | |
| Quantum andreev map: A paradigm of quantum chaos in superconductivity Physical Review Letters 90, 207004 (2003) | |
| Fresnel laws at curved dielectric interfaces of microresonators Physical Review E 65, 045603 (2002) | |
| Counting statistics of photons produced by electronic shot noise Physical Review Letters 86, 700 (2001) | |