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Topological Effects in Wave Scattering and Metamaterials

Advanced wave engineering demands robust, efficient, and new-degree-of-freedom manipulations in wave intrinsic properties like amplitude, phase, polarization, and even spatial structure. To tackle this, this thesis advances photonic wave manipulation by sy ...

EPFL2025

Spectroscopy of two-dimensional interacting lattice electrons using symmetry-aware neural backflow transformations

Giuseppe Carleo, Jannes Willy E. Nys, Imelda Romero

Neural networks have shown to be a powerful tool to represent the ground state of quantum many-body systems, including fermionic systems. However, efficiently integrating lattice symmetries into neural representations remains a significant challenge. In th ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2025

Circuit Qed Spectra in the Ultrastrong Coupling Regime: How They Differ From Cavity Qed

Alberto Mercurio

Cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) investigates the interaction between resonator-confined radiation and natural atoms. Similar phenomena can be explored using superconducting artificial atoms coupled to microwave resonators. Here, we examine incoherent ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2025

Thermalization and criticality on an analogue-digital quantum simulator

Andreas Martin Läuchli Herzig

Understanding how interacting particles approach thermal equilibrium is a major challenge of quantum simulators(1,2). Unlocking the full potential of such systems towards this goal requires flexible initial state preparation, precise time evolution and ext ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2025

On the influence of the buffer layer on the optical quality of AlN-on-sapphire epilayers for photonic integrated devices

Nicolas Grandjean, Camille Sophie Brès, Jean-François Carlin, Raphaël Butté, Samantha Sbarra, Samuele Brunetta

In the last decade, aluminum nitride (AlN) has proven to be an attractive material for both linear and nonlinear integrated photonics, due to its large transparency window, its low propagation losses and the presence of both second- and third-order nonline ...

SPIE2025

Quantum many-body scars as remnants of stable many-body periodic orbits

Keita Omiya Arimitsu

Quantum many-body scars (QMBSs) represent a weak ergodicity-breaking phenomenon that defies the common scenario of thermalization in closed quantum systems. They are often regarded as a many-body analog of quantum scars (QSs)—a single-particle phenomenon i ...

American Physical Society (APS)2025

Multi-octave bandwidth supercontinuum generation in crystalline Aluminum Nitride-on-sapphire waveguides

Nicolas Grandjean, Camille Sophie Brès, Jean-François Carlin, Raphaël Butté, Samantha Sbarra, Samuele Brunetta

Applications such as optical clocks, gas spectroscopy, and optical coherent tomography stand to benefit significantly from the integration of on-chip supercontinuum sources. Materials exhibiting both second- and third-order nonlinearities are particularly ...

International Society for Optical Engineering2025

Emergent nonlinear dynamics in photonic lattices

Aleksandr Tusnin

Since the discovery of dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators, significant progress has been made in the understanding of the underlying physical principles from the fundamental side and generation of broadband coherent optical Kerr frequency ...

EPFL2024

Thouless pumping in Josephson junction arrays

Stavros Athanasiou

Recent advancements in fabrication techniques have enabled unprecedented clean interfaces and gate tunability in semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures. Inspired by these developments, we propose protocols to realize Thouless quantum pumping in elec ...

Scipost Foundation2024

Adaptive projected variational quantum dynamics

Giuseppe Carleo, Stefano Barison, David Linteau

We propose an adaptive quantum algorithm to prepare accurate variational time evolved wave functions. The method is based on the projected variational quantum dynamics (pVQD) algorithm, that performs a global optimization with linear scaling in the number ...

Amer Physical Soc2024

Transition to chaos in extended systems and their quantum impurity models

Camille Didier Georges Aron

Chaos sets a fundamental limit to quantum-information processing schemes. We study the onset of chaos in spatially extended quantum many-body systems that are relevant to quantum optical devices. We consider an extended version of the Tavis-Cummings model ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Empirical Sample Complexity of Neural Network Mixed State Reconstruction

Giuseppe Carleo, Filippo Vicentini

Quantum state reconstruction using Neural Quantum States has been proposed as a viable tool to reduce quantum shot complexity in practical applications, and its advantage over competing techniques has been shown in numerical experiments focusing mainly on ...

Verein Forderung Open Access Publizierens Quantenwissenschaf2024

Ultra-high quantum coherent and scalable superconducting circuit optomechanics, from topological lattices to quantum storage

Amir Youssefi

Mechanical oscillators can exhibit modes with ultra-low energy dissipation and compact form factors due to the slow velocity of acoustic waves, and are already used in applications ranging from timing to wireless filters. Over the past decade, novel ways i ...

EPFL2024

Secure and Efficient Cryptographic Algorithms in a Quantum World

Loïs Evan Huguenin-Dumittan

Since the advent of internet and mass communication, two public-key cryptographic algorithms have shared the monopoly of data encryption and authentication: Diffie-Hellman and RSA. However, in the last few years, progress made in quantum physics -- and mo ...

EPFL2024

Quantum Protocols for ML, Physics, and Finance

Grzegorz Adam Gluch

In this thesis, we give new protocols that offer a quantum advantage for problems in ML, Physics, and Finance. Quantum mechanics gives predictions that are inconsistent with local realism. The experiment proving this fact (Bell, 1964) gives a quantum proto ...

EPFL2024

Thermo-optic epsilon-near-zero effects

Camille Sophie Brès, Marco Clementi, Jiaye Wu

Nonlinear epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) nanodevices featuring vanishing permittivity and CMOS-compatibility are attractive solutions for large-scale-integrated systems-on-chips. Such confined systems with unavoidable heat generation impose critical challenges fo ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Scalable Quantum Algorithms for Noisy Quantum Computers

Julien Sebastian Gacon

Quantum computing not only holds the potential to solve long-standing problems in quantum physics, but also to offer speed-ups across a broad spectrum of other fields. Access to a computational space that incorporates quantum effects, such as superposition ...

EPFL2024

Quantum Error Correction and Simulation in Open Bosonic Systems

David Schlegel

Quantum computers have the potential to surpass conventional computing, but they are hindered by noise which induces errors that ultimately lead to the loss of quantum information. This necessitates the development of quantum error correction strategies fo ...

EPFL2024

Room-temperature quantum optomechanics using an ultralow noise cavity

Tobias Kippenberg, Guanhao Huang, Nils Johan Engelsen, Alberto Beccari

At room temperature, mechanical motion driven by the quantum backaction of light has been observed only in pioneering experiments in which an optical restoring force controls the oscillator stiffness1,2. For solid-state mechanical resonators in which oscil ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Parametric Wavelength Conversion in Waveguiding Structures: Efficiency, Bandwidth and Polarization

Arman Ayan

Photonics integrated circuits are a promising solution for the growing demands of data transmission and future system-on-chip technologies. Within this context, nonlinear optical interactions offer unique opportunities for all-optical processing, sampling, ...

EPFL2024