QUROPE Quantum Information Processing and Communication in Europe

Our research concerns nano-optomechanical sensors in the quantum and in the classical regime.  At the core of our activities are semiconductor photonic/mechanic devices integrated on chip and interfaced with quantum systems (quantum dots, quantum wells), with fluids, and with more complex systems. Our scientific interests cover imaging techniques, mechanical entanglement, collective phenomena in optomechanics, and sensing beyond established limits.

- On-chip nanoscale optomechanical systems

- Optomechanical force measurements

- Optomechanics and Fluids

- Optomechanics of active systems

- THz optomechanics

- Thermo-optomechanics

- Polariton Lasing

Development of superconducting nanoscale electronics

Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors

Superconducting nanowire three-terminal devices

Superconducting nanowire memories

Design, fabrication and characterization of micro and nano superconducting quantum devices including Josephson junctions, rf and dc SQUIDs.

The High Level Steering Committee (http://qurope.eu/db/news/expert-group-quantum-technology-flagship) initiated a consultation process in order to collect the community consensus about the possible structure and governance of the QT Flagship.

During the first HLSC meeting, on the 20th September, T. Calarco presented the following documents:

We aim to demonstrate manipulation and control of the spectral dependence of the field quadratures fluctuations of squeezed light by effect of opto-mechanical interaction. 

Expertise:

• Nolinear optics
• generation of squeezed light
• optomechanical quantum cavity
• frequency comb genearation in quadratic nonlinear cavities

- Rare earth ions and cromophores doped glasses and glass ceramics

- Confined structures: waveguides; opals; 1D-microcavities; WGMs spherical microresonators

- Optical spectroscopy

- Fabrication by sol-gel  route

- Fabrication by RF-Sputtering

Synthetic magnetism in the system of cold atoms

Decoherence and entanglement of the quantum states

Quantum sensing and imaging

Quantum transport and quantum biology

Verification of quantum simulations

Fundamental study of quantum correlations