Del Valle seminar (September 2019)

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• What? What is our research about at the Physics Department in Wolverhampton?
• Who? Elena del Valle (our new Quantum Optics Senior Lecturer).
• Where? Wulfruna building (city campus), MC224.
• When? Fri 27 September, 16:00.
• Why? Elena will introduce the research in Physics in Wolverhampton in general and her own research in particular.
• How? The talk is one hour and open to questions, refreshement will be available.

• Chair: Juan Camilo López Carreño.

The research in Physics at the University of Wolverhampton covers broad areas around the physics of light-matter coupling. In particular, we collectively study the behaviours of compound objects that are part-light, part-matter (known as "polaritons"). I will give a short overview of what this field is about at the Research level. My own area of study concerns quantum systems of different sorts, with as a common theme, how those systems can be designed to emit quantum light, with only a few "photons" (the ultimate light constituents) at a time, which is useful for future fancy applications such as the quantum computer. I will overview some of the ways I figured out to obtain streams of single photons or of bunches of any number of them, or with striking quantum properties such as entanglement. I will also discuss ongoing projects we have in mind regarding outreach and public engagement where students participation would be most welcome.