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ABOUT US
Our young group, led by Dr. Carlos Antón-Solanas, was formed in 2022 and is driven by a passion for pushing the boundaries of knowledge in the field of experimental quantum photonics. We are based at the Dep. of Physics of Materials in the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, embedded in the renown semiconductor group SemicUAM. We are affiliated to the Instituto Nicolás Cabrera (INC) and the Condensed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC).
THE TEAM
Carlos antón-Solanas
I am a researcher specialised in experimental quantum optics and quantum materials.
I finished my PhD in 2015, under the supervision of Prof. Viña, on III-V semiconductor exciton-polaritons. As a postdoc (IF Marie-Curie 2016-18), I was working in the group of Prof. Senellart between 2015-2019 on quantum optics with semiconductor QDs. Then, I moved to the group of Prof. Schneider, first in Würzburg (2020), and finally in Oldenburg, where I participated to the creation of the AG Quantenmaterialien. During this period, I worked on nonlinear & quantum photonics with different 2D materials. Since 2022, I lead the QOSS group at the UAM.
Brief CV
ORCID: 0000-0002-9316-4340
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Education
PhD in Official Postgraduate Programme in Physics of Light and Matter, UAM (Spain), 2015
Master in Photonics, UAM (Spain), 2011
Degree in Physics, UAM (Spain), 2010
Relevant projects
“Distribución cuántica de claves con emisores de fotones a temperatura ambiente” Becas Leonardo a Investigadores en Física, Fundación BBVA, Institution: UAM, 19/05/2023-18/05/2025, 40.000 €.
“Fuentes ultrabrillantes de fotones en cavidades abiertas” Ref. ULTRA-BRIGHT, XXI Concurso Nacional para Ayudas a la Investigación en Ciencias de la Vida y de la Materia, Fundación Ramón Areces, Institution: UAM, 01/04/2023-31/03/2026, 127.665 €.
“High-dimensional entanglement with semiconductor quantum dots” Atracción de Talento Modalidad 1- Comunidad de Madrid. Ref. 2020‐T1/IND‐19785. Institution: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. 25/02/2022-24/02/2027. 199.735 €. Principal Investigator.
“Scalable Quantum Photonics using ultrabright single photon sources (SQUAPH)” Individual Fellowship Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, European Comission Ref. 702084.Competitive postdoc Grant. Institution: Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, French National Centre for Scientific Research. 01/11/2016-31/10/2018. 173.000 €. Principal Investigator.
FPU-MEC. Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. Ref. AP2010-1621. Competitive PhD Grant. C. Antón-Solanas. Institution: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. 01/01/2012- 28/02/2015. 60.252 € (+7.800€ on a competitive 6-month secondment grant, Ref. TRA13/00006).
Postdoc experience
🇩🇪 03/12/2019-24/02/2022 Schneider's group, University of Würzburg & University of Oldenburg, Germany
🇫🇷 01/03/2015-31/10/2019 Senellart's group, LPN & C2N - CNRS, France
Invited talks
“Single-photon sources based in semiconductor quantum dots and in two-dimensional materials” C. Antón. Int. Conf. on Modulated Semiconductor Structures (MSS-21). 9-14.07.2023. Grenoble (France).
“Two-dimensional materials for nonlinear and quantum photonics” C. Antón. Conferencia Española de Nanofotónica (CEN). 12-14.06.2023. Zaragoza (Spain).
“Quantum photonics: from near-optimal sources to emergent platforms” C. Antón. International Conference on Physics of Light-Matter Coupling in Nanostructures 2023. 11-16.04.2023. Medellin (Colombia).
“Photon superposition and entanglement from solid-state light sources” C. Antón. 50th Jaszowiec International School & Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors. 04.06-10.06.2022. Szczyrk (Poland).
“Photon-number entanglement generated by sequential excitation of a two-level atom” C. Antón. Annual Seminar 2021, Intelligent Systems, Communications & Information Tech-nology. 02.07.2021. Besançon (France). Online.
“Interfacing solid-state single-photon sources and integrated photonics circuits: high rate three-photon coalescence” C. Antón. 9th French-Korean-German Workshop. 02-05.12.2019. Würzburg (Germany).
“Interfacing solid-state single-photon sources and integrated photonics circuits: high rate three-photon coalescence” C. Antón. IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference. 27.10-30.10.2019. Stockholm (Sweden).
“Generation of non-classical light in a photon-number superposition” C. Antón. Quantum Innovators in Science and Engineering Conf. 30.09-03.10.2019. Waterloo (Canada).
“Generation of non-classical light in a photon-number superposition” C. Antón. IV Int. Conference on Metamaterials and Nanophotonics. 15-19.07.2019 Saint Petersburg (Russia).
“Interfacing solid-state single-photon sources and integrated photonics circuits: high rate three-photon coalescence” C. Antón. PhotonIcs & Electromagnetics Research Sympo-sium. 17-20.06.2019. Rome (Italy).
Recent invited seminars
July 2023, Walter Schottky Institute, Munich (Germany), “Time-resolved energet-ic exchanges during a Ramsey sequence”
April 2023, School of Optical Sciences and Quantum Technologies (BOS.QT), Berlin (Germany), “Two-dimensional materials for nonlinear and quantum photonics”
February 2023 IMPULSO Seminar, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza (Spain) “Two-dimensional materials for nonlinear and quantum photonics”
February 2023 Institute of Experimental, University of Warsaw, Warsaw (Poland) “Solid-state quantum light sources: from semiconductor quantum dots to two-dimensional crystal quantum dots”
November 2022 Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid (Spain) “Solid-state quantum light sources: from semiconductor quantum dots to two-dimensional crystal quantum dots”
June 2022 Quantum Information and Foundations Group – CSIC, Madrid (Spain) “Generation of superposition and entanglement in the photon-number basis with solid-state quantum devices”
February 2022 Informal seminar IFIMAC Institute, UAM Madrid (Spain) “On demand time-entanglement in the Fock basis generated by sequential excitation of a two-level atom” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVDIWp4vV6A. Online.
December 2021 Center for Photonics and Quantum Materials, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow (Russia) “Exciton-polaritons with 2D materials, from cryogenic to ambient conditions” in the Youtube Polaritonics Seminar Series. Online.
October 2021 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield (UK) “Photon-number entanglement generated by sequential excitation of a two-level atom”. Online.
Contributed talks
“Time-resolved energetic exchanges during a Ramsey sequence” I. Maillette de Buy Wenniger, S. C. Wein, H. Lam, M. Maffei, D. Fioretto, A. Harouri, A. Lemaître, I. Sagnes, N. Somaschi, O. Krebs, A. Auffeves, N. Belavas, P. Senellart, C Antón-Solanas. Quan-tum Matter International Conference 2023 (QUANTUMatter 2023). 23-25.05.2023. Ma-drid (Spain). International.
“2D materials for polaritonics and quantum optical devices” C. Antón-Solanas. 1st Conference on Advanced Materials in Spain (AMatS2022). 7-9.11.2022. Gandia (Spain). National.
“On demand time-entanglement in the Fock basis generated by sequential excitation of a two-level atom” S. C. Wein, J. C. Loredo, M. Maffei, P. Hilaire, A. Harouri, N. So-maschi, A. Lemaître, I. Sagnes, L. Lanco, O. Krebs, A. Auffèves, C. Simon, P. Senellart, C. Anton-Solanas. XXXVIII Biennial of Physics of the Spanish Royal Physics Society (R.S.E.F.) 2022. 11-15.08.2022. Murcia (Spain). National.
“Exciton-polaritons with 2D materials, from cryogenic to ambient conditions” C. Anton-Solanas, M. Waldherr, H. Shan, L. Lackner, B. Han, E. Sedov, C. Rupprecht, H. Knopf, F. Eilenberger, T. H. Harder, S. Tongay, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. Klembt, A. V. Kavokin, S. Höfling, C. Schneider. XXXVIII Biennial of Physics of the Spanish Royal Physics Society (R.S.E.F.) 2022. 11-15.08.2022. Murcia (Spain). National.
“Bosonic condensation of exciton-polaritons in an atomically thin crystal” C. Antón, M. Waldherr, M. Klaas, et al, C. Schneider. German Physical Society Meeting of the Con-densed Matter Section (SKM). 27/09/2021-01.10. 2021. Bad Honnef (Germany). Na-tional.
“Condensation and spatial coherence of Exciton-Polaritons in a MoSe2 monolayer-microcavity” C. Antón, M. Waldherr, M. Klaas, et al, C. Schneider. XVII Optics of Exci-tons in Confined Systems. 30.08.-02.09.2021. Dörtmund (Germany). International.
“Condensation and spatial coherence of Exciton-Polaritons in a MoSe2 monolayer-microcavity” C. Antón, M. Waldherr, M. Klaas, et al, C. Schneider. Int. Conf. of Nano-science and Technology. 12-15.07.-02.09.2021. Vancouver (Canada). International.
“Condensation and spatial coherence of Exciton-Polaritons in a MoSe2 monolayer-microcavity” C. Antón, M. Waldherr, M. Klaas, et al, C. Schneider. Conference on Lasers & Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference. 20.06-24.06.2021. Münich (Germany). International.
“Photon-number entanglement generated by sequential excitation of a two-level atom” S. C. Wein, J. C. Loredo, M. Maffei, et al, C. Antón-Solanas. Quantum, Atomic, and Mo-lecular Physics 2021. 31.08-03.09.2021. London (UK). International.
“Photon-number entanglement generated by sequential excitation of a two-level atom” S. C. Wein, J. C. Loredo, M. Maffei, et al, C. Antón-Solanas. German Physical Society Meeting "Condensed Matter Section 2021". 27.09-01.10.2021. (Germany). National.
Scientific Awards
Apr 2023. “Becas Leonardo a Investigadores en Física 2023” from the Fundación BBVA.
01/01/2016. Prize for the Best Experimental Thesis given by the Specialized Group on Solid-State Physics (GEFES) of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics (RSEF).
01/05/2016. Extraordinary Doctoral Thesis Prize of the Faculty of Science of the UAM.
19/12/2013. INC Young Researchers Prize in Materials Science 2013. “Nicolás Cabrera Institute”, UAM (Spain). Citation of the prize: “Promoting the excellent work of the young scientists of the Nicolás Cabrera Institute, by recognizing the main young author of one publication of the INC”.
02/09/2013. Best Poster Award in VI POLATOM ESF School on “Cold atoms, excitons, exciton-polaritons and surface plasmon-polaritons”. Maratea (Italy).
30/07/2010. First class degree Honours in Physics 2010, 2 awarded students with top marks among 70 students in the 2005-2010 Physics course. C. Antón gave the closing honor speech of his degree. UAM (Spain).
Referee activity
Referee in international peer-reviewed journals: ACS-Photonics, Advanced Quantum Technologies, Appl. Phys. Lett., Nano letters, Nature Communications, Nature Photonics, Nature Physics, Phys. Rev. Appl., Phys. Rev. B, Phys. Rev. A, Phys. Rev. X, Phys. Rev. Lett., Semicond. Science & Technology, Advanced Optical Materials.
Evaluator activity
NWO, AEI, Polish National Science Centre, ERANET CHIST-ERA.
Editorial activity
2022. Guest Editor in the special issue on Polaritonics in the journal Optical Materials Express (OMEx).
Jorge Cuadra Veliz
Postdoc (since May 2023)
Earned his PhD in 2014 from UAM, focusing on exciton-polariton in III-V semiconductor microcavities. He then explored optical properties of TMDC materials under high magnetic fields at NTU, Singapore, and furthered his research on exciton hybridization in TMDC at Chalmers University, Sweden. In 2018, he joined Eduardo Lee's group at UAM to delve into electronic transport in semiconductor nanodevices. Currently working since May 2023, Jorge is investigating the strong coupling between excitons in perovskites and photonic resonators, in collaboration with the group of Ferry Prins. Contact: jorge.cuadra[at]uam.es
Diego Marni Sobrino
Research assistant
INC Prize 2023 "Active phase-locked Mach-Zehnder interferometer"
TFG 23-24 on "Quantum fluids of light based on perovskites at room temperature"
Raúl Díez Martínez
Research assistant
TFG 23-24 on "Emission of single photons from defects in hexagonal boron nitride"
ALUMNI
Victor Camacho (TFG 22-23 on "Introduction to Experimental Quantum Optics in the Solid State")
David Abejón Arribas (PE curriculares 22-23 on "Automatisation of complete polarisation tomography")