Quantum control of polariton emission in a microcavity-quantum well system under magnetic field.

In this work, a quantum dissipative model is employed to investigate the influence of a perpendicular magnetic field on the photoluminescence (PL) spectrum of a quantum well embedded within a microcavity. This model incorporates both the exact electron-hole interaction within the semiconductor and the light-matter coupling between the fundamental photonic mode and the fermionic particles. The loss and pumping mechanisms are described using the quantum master equation, and the PL spectrum is determined via the quantum regression theorem.

Elucidating multi-input processing 3-node gene regulatory network topologies capable of generating striped gene expression patterns.

A central problem in developmental and synthetic biology is understanding the mechanisms by which cells in a tissue or a Petri dish process external cues and transform such information into a coherent response, e.g., a terminal differentiation state.

Validation tests for cryo-EM maps using an independent particle set.

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has revolutionized structural biology by providing 3D density maps of biomolecules at near-atomic resolution. However, map validation is still an open issue. Despite several efforts from the community, it is possible to overfit 3D maps to noisy data.

Strong coupling of two interacting excitons confined in a nanocavity-quantum dot system.

We present a study of the strong coupling between radiation and matter, considering a system of two quantum dots, which are in mutual interaction and interact with a single mode of light confined in a semiconductor nanocavity. We take into account dissipative mechanisms such as the escape of the cavity photons, decay of the quantum dot excitons by spontaneous emission, and independent exciton pumping. It is shown that the mutual interaction between the dots can be measured off-resonance only if the strong coupling condition is reached.

Density operator of a system pumped with polaritons: a Jaynes-Cummings-like approach.

We investigate the effects of considering two different incoherent excitation mechanisms on microcavity quantum dot systems modeled using the Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian. When the system is incoherently pumped with polaritons it is able to sustain a large number of photons inside the cavity with Poisson-like statistics in the stationary limit, and it also leads to a separable exciton-photon state. We also investigate the effects of both types of pumpings (excitonic and polaritonic) in the emission spectrum of the cavity.

Characterization of dynamical regimes and entanglement sudden death in a microcavity quantum dot system.

The relation between the dynamical regimes (weak and strong coupling) and entanglement for a dissipative quantum dot microcavity system is studied. In the framework of a phenomenological temperature model an analysis in both temporal (population dynamics) and frequency domain (photoluminescence) is carried out in order to identify the associated dynamical behavior. The Wigner function and concurrence are employed to quantify the entanglement in each regime.

Photon emission as a source of coherent behavior of polaritons.

We show that the combined effect of photon emission and Coulomb interactions may drive an exciton-polariton system towards a dynamical coherent state, even without phonon thermalization or any other relaxation mechanism. Exact diagonalization results for a finite system (a multilevel quantum dot interacting with the lowest-energy photon mode of a microcavity) are presented in support of this statement.