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Academic trayectory

  • June 2004. Bachelor's degree in Theoretical Physics in the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (3.6 over 4). Honourable mention in the National Award (Mencion especial en el Premio Nacional fin de carrera de Ciencias Fisicas) and first graduate award of the UAM (Premio fin de licenciatura de la Universidad Autonoma de Madrid).
  • September 2004-June 2005. PhD courses in Condensed Matter Physics (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid).
  • April 2005-2009. Postgraduate (4 year) FPU Fellowship (run by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia).
  • October 2006. Diploma de Estudios Avanzados (Master) on Theoretical Condensed Matter (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid).
  • July 2007. Stay (2 months) in the International center of condensed matter physics, Brasilia (Brasil), supported by my FPU grant.
  • August 2008. Stay (4 months) in the University of Southampton (U.K.), supported by my FPU grant.
  • March 2011-2021. Newton Alumnus, funded by the Newton Fellowships scheme.
  • Since October 2015: member of IFIMAC.
  • September 2015-June 2016: Coordinator of the general Physics Laboratories for the degrees of Physics, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.
  • 2016 and 2017: I teach a general Physics Laboratory for the degree of Chemical Engineering.

My Google Scholar and Researcher ID profiles.

Other relevant events

  • December 2000. Cambridge Proficiency Exam of English (CPE).
  • 2005, 2006 and 2007. Physics laboratory teacher with first-year chemical engineering students (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid).

Selected publications

You can also see my full list of publications. We have gathered all the misprints we found in our published work here.

1. Strong-coupling of quantum dots in microcavities, F. P. Laussy, E. del Valle and C. Tejedor. Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 083601 (2008). (arXiv:0711.1894)

2. Collective fluid dynamics of a polariton condensate in a semiconductor microcavity, A. Amo, D. Sanvitto, F. P. Laussy, D. Ballarini, E. del Valle, M. D. Martin, A. Lemaître, J. Bloch, D. N. Krizhanovskii, M. S. Skolnick, C. Tejedor and L. Viña, Nature 457, 291 (2009). (arXiv:0711.1539)

3. Luminescence spectra of quantum dots in microcavities. I. Bosons, F. P. Laussy, E. del Valle and C. Tejedor. Phys. Rev. B 79, 235325 (2009). (arXiv:0807.3194)

4. Luminescence spectra of quantum dots in microcavities. II. Fermions, E. del Valle, F. P. Laussy and C. Tejedor. Phys. Rev. B 79, 235326 (2009). (arXiv:0812.2694)

5. Dynamics of the Formation and Decay of Coherence in a Polariton Condensate, E. del Valle, D. Sanvitto, F.P. Laussy, A. Amo, D. Ballarini, R. André, C. Tejedor and L. Viña. Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 096404 (2009). (arXiv:0903.1954)

6. Effect of pure dephasing on the Jaynes-Cummings nonlinearities, A. Gonzalez-Tudela, E. del Valle, E. Cancellieri, C. Tejedor, D. Sanvitto and F.P. Laussy. Optics Express 18, 7002 (2010). (arXiv:0907.1302)

7. Strong and weak coupling of two coupled qubits, E. del Valle. Phys. Rev. A. 81, 053811 (2010). (arXiv:1001.2201)

8. Mollow triplet under incoherent pumping, E. del Valle, F. P. Laussy. Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 233601 (2010). (arXiv:1007.1471). Featured in the website Moments of Seeing Further and the report Knowledge, Networks and Nations by the Royal Society.

9. Steady state entanglement of two coupled qubits, E. del Valle. JOSA B 28, 228 (2011). (arXiv:1005.4383)

10. Regimes of strong light-matter coupling under incoherent excitation, E. del Valle and F.P. Laussy. Phys. Rev. A. 84, 043816 (2011). (arXiv:1105.5836)

11. Generation of a two-photon state from a quantum dot in a microcavity, E. del Valle, A. Gonzalez-Tudela, E. Cancellieri, F. P. Laussy and C. Tejedor. New J. Phys. 13, 113014 (2011). (arXiv:1107.0953)

12. Universal signatures of lasing in the strong coupling regime, F. P. Laussy, E. del Valle and J. J. Finley. Proceedings of SPIE 8255, 82551G (2012). (arXiv:1106.0509)

13. Theory of frequency-filtered and time-resolved N-photon correlations, E. del Valle, A. Gonzalez-Tudela, F. P. Laussy, C. Tejedor and M. J. Hartmann. Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 183601 (2012). (arXiv:1203.6016). Also, the erratum.

14. Distilling one, two and entangled pairs of photons from a quantum dot with cavity QED effects and spectral filtering, E. del Valle. New J. Phys. 15, 025019 (2013). Contribution to a focus issue on "Cavity and Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics in Solids". (arXiv:1210.5272)

15. Two-photon spectra of quantum emitters, A. Gonzalez-Tudela, F. P. Laussy, C. Tejedor, M. J. Hartmann, E. del Valle. New J. Phys. 15, 033036 (2013) (arXiv:1211.5592)

16. Photon correlations from ultra-strong optical nonlinearities, A. Ridolfo, E. del Valle and M. J. Hartmann. Phys. Rev. A 88, 063812 (2013) (arXiv:1307.5181)

17. Emitters of N-photon bundles, C. Sánchez-Muñoz, E. del Valle, A. González-Tudela, S. Lichtmannecker, K. Müller, M. Kaniber, C. Tejedor, J.J. Finley and F.P. Laussy. Nature Photonics 8, 550 (2014) (arXiv:1306.1578). Also see the News and Views titled Cavity quantum electrodynamics: A bundle of photons, please by Dmitry V. Strekalov.

18. Spontaneous, collective coherence in driven, dissipative cavity arrays, J. Ruiz-Rivas, E. del Valle, C. Gies, P. Gartner and M. J. Hartmann, Phys. Rev. A 90, 033808 (2014). (arXiv:1401.5776)

19. Ultrafast control of Rabi oscillations in a polariton condensate, L. Dominici, D. Colas, S. Donati, J. P. Restrepo Cuartas, M. De Giorgi, D. Ballarini, G. Guirales, J. C. Lopez Carreno, A. Bramati, G. Gigli, E. del Valle, F. P. Laussy, D. Sanvitto. Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 226401 (2014) (arXiv:1408.1289). Covered by mi+d and Aula Magna.

20. Violation of classical inequalities by frequency filtering, C. Sánchez Muñoz, E. del Valle, C. Tejedor, F. P. Laussy. Phys. Rev. A 90, 052111 (2014) (arXiv:1403.6182). See a summary and a related video.

21. Optimization of photon correlations by frequency filtering, A. Gonzalez-Tudela, E. del Valle, F. P. Laussy. Phys. Rev. A 91, 043807 (2015). (arXiv:1501.01799)

22. On-chip generation of indistinguishable photons using cavity quantum-electrodynamics, K. Müller, A. Rundquist, K. A. Fischer, T. Sarmiento, K. G. Lagoudakis, Y. A. Kelaita, C. Sánchez Muñoz, E. del Valle, F. P. Laussy, J. Vučković. Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 233601 (2015) (arXiv:1408.5942)

23. Polarization shaping of Poincaré beams by polariton oscillations, D. Colas, L. Dominici, S. Donati, A.A. Pervishko, T.C.H. Liew, I.A. Shelykh, D. Ballarini, M. de Giorgi, A. Bramati, G. Gigli, E. del Valle, F.P. Laussy, A.V. Kavokin, D. Sanvitto. Light: Science & Applications (2015) 4, e350 (arXiv:1412.4758). Also an outreach article in Spanish in the UAM Gazette.

24. Exciting polaritons with quantum light, J. C. López Carreño, C. Sánchez Muñoz, D. Sanvitto, E. del Valle, F.P. Laussy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 196402 (2015). Editor's suggestion! (arXiv:1505.07823)

25. Enhanced two-photon emission from a dressed biexciton, Carlos Sánchez Muñoz, Fabrice P. Laussy, Carlos Tejedor, Elena del Valle. New J. Phys. 17 (2015) 123021 (arXiv:1506.05050)

26. The colored Hanbury Brown--Twiss effect, B. Silva, A. González Tudela, C. Sánchez Muñoz, D. Ballarini, G. Gigli, K. W. West, L. Pfeiffer, E. del Valle, D. Sanvitto, F. P. Laussy. Sci. Rep. 6, 37980 (2016) (arXiv:1406.0964)

27. Excitation with quantum light. II. Exciting a two-level system, J. C. López Carreño, C. Sánchez Muñoz, E. del Valle, F. P. Laussy, Phys. Rev. A 94, 063826 (2016) (arXiv:1609.00857) (after a first part)

28. Structure of the harmonic oscillator in the space of n-particle Glauber correlators, E. Zubizarreta Casalengua, J. C. López Carreño, E. del Valle, and F. P. Laussy, Journal of Mathematical Physics 58, 062109 (2017) (arXiv:1607.03976)


In progress

  • Fluctuation induced luminescence sidebands in the emission spectra of resonantly driven quantum dots, F. P. Laussy, V. Jovanov, E. del Valle, A. Bechtold, S. Kapfinger, K. Müller, S. Koch, A. Laucht, T. Eissfeller, M. Bichler, G. Abstreiter, J. J. Finley. arXiv:1207.6952
  • Entangling a polariton with one photon: effect of interactions at the single-particle level, Álvaro Cuevas, Blanca Silva, Juan Camilo López Carreño, Milena de Giorgi, Carlos Sánchez Muñoz, Antonio Fieramosca, Daniel Gustavo Suárez Forero, Filippo Cardano, Lorenzo Marrucci, Vittorianna Tasco, Giorgio Biasiol, Elena del Valle, Lorenzo Dominici, Dario Ballarini, Giuseppe Gigli, Paolo Mataloni, Fabrice P. Laussy, Fabio Sciarrino, Daniele Sanvitto. arXiv:1609.01244
  • Criterion for Single Photon Sources, J. C. López Carreño, E. Zubizarreta Casalengua, E. del Valle, F. P. Laussy. arXiv:1610.06126
  • Frequency-resolved Monte Carlo, J. C. López Carreño, E. del Valle, F. P. Laussy, arXiv:1705.10978
  • Filtering Multiphoton Emission from State-of-the-Art Cavity QED, C. Sánchez Muñoz, F. P. Laussy, E. del Valle, C. Tejedor, Alejandro González-Tudela, arXiv:1707.03690

Books & Chapters

1. My thesis dissertation is published as a monograph under the title Microcavity Quantum Electrodynamics (VDM Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-639-19460-9).

2. Chapter Luminescence spectra of Quantum Dots in Microcavities, F.P. Laussy, E. del Valle, A. Laucht, A. Gonzalez-Tudela, M. Kaniber, J. J. Finley and C. Tejedor. In the book "Quantum optics with semiconductor nanostructures", Edited by F. Jahnke, University of Bremen, Germany. Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials No. 28 (2012).

Mathematica demonstrations

1. Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Bosons: Emission Spectra in the Strong and Weak Coupling Regimes, F. P. Laussy and E. del Valle. Wolfram Demonstrations Project (2008).

2. Mollow Triplet, E. del Valle and F. P. Laussy. Wolfram Demonstrations Project (2013).

Conferences, schools and seminars

Before 2007

1. Maratea (Italy), September 2005. Attendance to the International Summer School of Nanophotonics.

2. Madrid, February 2006. Seminar at Instituto de Ciencias de Materiales (ICMM insitute, CSIC).

3. Vienna (Austria), July 2006. Poster at ICPS28 (International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors), titled Quantum cavity electrodynamics for two quantum dots.

4. Sheffield (U.K.), November 2006: Seminar at The University of Sheffield titled Cavity QED with two quantum dots.

5. Barcelona (Spain), November 2006: Poster at the QOIT project Kick-off meeting in the Institute of Photonic Science (ICFO) titled Cavity QED with two quantum dots.

2007

6. La Habana (Cuba), April 2007: Oral presentation at PLMCN7, titled Steady state of two quantum dots in a cavity. Best student presentation award.

7. Brasilia (Brasil), July 2007: Invited talk in the international workshop Advances in Physics and Applications of Low-Dimensitonal Systems, titled Nanostructures as components for Quantum Optics.

8. Brasilia (Brasil), August 2007: Attendance to School on Atomic Quantum Fluids.

9. Madrid (Spain), December 2007: Invited talk in the X Jornada científica del Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales Nicolás Cabrera titled Light and matter in strong coupling.

2008

10. Barcelona (Spain), January 2008: Poster at the second QOIT project meeting in the Institute of Photonic Science (ICFO) titled Coherent and incoherent strong coupling.

11. Tokyo (Japan), April 2008: Oral presentation at PLMCN8, titled Coherence and entanglement control of two quantum dots.

12. Madrid (Spain), June 2008: UAM Department seminar titled Luz y materia en acoplo fuerte.

13. Cambridge (U.K.), September 2008: Oral presentation at ICSCE4 (International Conference on Spontaneous Coherence in Excitonic Systems), titled Dynamics of formation and decay of coherence in a polariton BEC.

2009

14. Allahabad (India), January 2009: Oral presentation at ICTOPON (International Conference on Transport and Optical Properties of Nanomaterials), titled Two-photon resonance with a quantum dot in a microcavity.

15. Santiago de Cuba (Cuba), January 2009: Poster at the International School of Nanophotonics and Photovoltaics titled Strong coupling of quantum dots in microcavities.

16. Lecce (Italy), April 2009: Oral presentation at PLMCN9, titled Cavity QED with Quantum Dots in Microcavities.

17. Reykjavík (Iceland), April 2009: Seminar at the University of Iceland, titled Light-matter coupling in the presence of decoherence; application to quantum dots in semiconductor microcavities.

18. Madrid (Spain), September 2009: Oral presentation at the OECS11 conference, titled Strong coupling revisited.

19. Cardiff (U.K.), October 2009: Seminar at Cardiff University, titled Quantum dots in microcavities: where we are and where to go.

2010

20. London (U.K.), February 2010: Poster at The Royal Society for the Newton International Fellowship Event, titled Quantum information processing with BEC of polaritons.

21. Cuernavaca (Mexico), April 2010: Poster presentation at PLMCN10, titled Dephasing of strong-coupling in the nonlinear regime.

22. Saint Petersburg (Russia), June 2010: Seminar at IOFFE institute, titled Strong coupling with quantum dots in microcavities.

23. Saint Petersburg (Russia), June 2010: Oral presentation at 18th International Symposium NANOSTRUCTURES: Physics and Technology, titled Strong coupling and entanglement of two coupled quantum dots.

24. Munich (Germany), July 2010: Seminar at Technische Universität München, titled Polariton physics in semiconductor microcavities.

25. Seoul (South Korea), July 2010: Oral presentation at ICPS30 (International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors), titled Strong coupling and entanglement of two coupled quantum dots.

26. London (U.K.), September 2010: Seminar at University College London, titled Pump induced entanglement of two coupled quantum systems.

27. Berlin (Germany), December 2010: Seminar at Technische Universität Berlin titled Incoherent Mollow triplet.

2011

28. Castelli Romani (Italy), March 2011: Oral presentation at the MIFP March Meeting titled One quantum dot laser.

29. Berlin (Germany), April 2011: Oral presentation at PLMCN11 conference titled Mollow triplet under incoherent excitation.

30. Berlin (Germany), 30 November-02 December 2011: Invited seminar at Technische Universität Berlin in the workshop Memory-effects in solids titled Effects of fast fluctuations in the coherent excitation of quantum dots.

2012

31. San Francisco (USA), 21-26 January 2012: Invited talk at SPIE Photonics West 2012 - Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XX titled Generation of a two-photon state from a quantum dot in a microcavity.

32. Stuttgart (Germany), 12 March 2012: Oral presentation at the DPG Spring Meeting titled Theory of coloured photon counting.

33. Castelli Romani (Italy), March 2012: Oral presentation at the MIFP March Meeting titled Generation of a two-photon state from a quantum dot in a microcavity.

34. Hangzhou (China), June 2012: Invited talk at PLMCN12 conference titled Photon correlations from non-linear systems in microcavities.

35. Karlsruhe (Germany), 28-30 November 2012: Poster presentation at the Network Meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

2013

36. Hannover (Germany), 18-22 March: Oral presentation at the DPG-Frühjahrstagung titled Two-photon spectra.

37. Rome (Italy), 24-27 March: Oral presentation at the 3rd MIFP March Meeting.

38. Munich (Germany), 12-16 May: Poster presentation at CLEO/EUROPE.

39. Crete (Greece), 27-31 May: Oral presentation at PLMCN14 conference.

40. Berlin (Germany), 5-7 June: I attend the Humboldt Annual Meeting.

41. Bogotá (Colombia), 28 June: Invited seminar at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

42. Clermont-Ferrand (France), 10 July: Invited seminar at the LASMEA, CNRS / University Blaise Pascal.

43. Munich (Germany), 9-13 September 2013: Oral presentation at the Conference on Resonator QED.

44. Medellin (Colombia), 11-16 November 2013: Invited seminars at the XIII Encuentro Nacional de Óptica.

45. Linz (Austria), 9-10 December 2013: Invited talk at the 1st international workshop on Engineering of Quantum Dot Emission properties.

2014

46. Ciudad Real (Spain), 22-24 January 2014: Invited talk at the VIII Reunión Bienal del Grupo Especializado de Estado Sólido (GEFES 2014).

47. St-Petersburg (Russia), 28-31 May 2014: Invited talk at the International Conference on Problems of Strongly Correlated and Interacting Systems.

48. Montpellier (France), 9-13 June 2014: Poster presentation at PLMCN14.

49. Austin (United States), 10-15 August 2014: Oral and poster presentation at ICPS.

2015

50. Moscow (Russia), 13-17 July 2015: Poster presentation at the Third International Conference on Quantum Technologies.

51. Cefalu (Italy), 15-23 September 2015: Invited lecture at the International School of Nanophotonics and Photovoltaics.

52. London (UK), 11 December 2015: Seminar at the University College of London.

2016

53. Torremolinos (España), 25-28 July 2016: Poster presentation at the META16 conference.

54. Isle of Wight (UK), 21-24 October 2016: Invited seminar at the 2016 Meeting on Polaritonics.

2017

54. Faro (Portugal), 8-12 May 2017: Invited talk at the Third International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics.

Scientific outreach

  1. European Researchers' Night: Both in 2015 and 2016, it was a very popular activity with plenty of science lovers and good questions!
  2. Jornada de divulgación del Grado en Física de la UAM, el 16 de diciembre de 2016 en la Facultad de Ciencias. Charla-presentación del Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada.

Educación y mediación Es.png

  • Julio 2007: Título de Mediadora social intercultural por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
  • 2006/2007: Curso de postgrado de 200 horas en la UAM en Mediación social Intercultural.
  • Junio 2006. Obtención del Certificado de Aptitud Pedagógica (CAP).
  • Mayo 2005. Curso de 16 horas sobre relaciones interculturales y mediación organizado por el Ayuntamiento de Tres Cantos con motivo del intercambio Nejapa-Tres Cantos.
  • Enero-Abril 2005. Curso-taller de 20 horas sobre Consumo Responsable organizado por el Equipo de Comunicación Educativa (ECOE).
  • Octubre 2004. Curso de formación en Derechos Humanos de 30 horas organizado por Helsinki-España en la Sede del Parlamento Europeo.
  • Mayo 2000. Título de Monitor de Tiempo Libre.

Experiencia laboral y voluntariados

  • Enero 2006-Junio 2007: 60 horas de prácticas de Mediación Social Multicultural en la Asociación Madrid: Puerta Abierta en un centro de apoyo escolar del distrito La Latina.
  • 2005/2006. Realización de las prácticas del CAP en un aula de matemáticas de secundaria (15 horas).
  • Abril 2005-Julio 2006: Organización y realización del Café Social Alternativo de Tres Cantos en la Casa de la Juventud con las asociaciones Tres Kantos Muévete y Consume Hasta Morir.
  • Octubre 2004-Febrero de 2005. Voluntariado de promoción y educación de los derechos humanos en centros educativos (secundaria) organizado por Helsinki-España.
  • Julio 2004. Directora de programa del viaje de estudios organizado por FSL-Council Exchanges Spain en Edimburgo (Gran Bretaña).
  • Semana Santa 2002. Viaje de intercambio cultural a los campamentos de refugiados saharauis en Tinduf organizado por la Asociación de Amigos del Pueblo Saharaui en Tres Cantos.
  • Septiembre 2002. Intérprete de inglés en la feria anual Bisutex en el Parque Ferial de Juan Carlos I de Madrid.
  • Agosto 2002. Directora de programa del viaje de estudios organizado por FSL-Council Exchanges Spain en Cardiff (Gran Bretaña).
  • Julio de 2002. Quincena como monitora de tiempo libre en las Colonias Urbanas de Tres Cantos.
  • Agosto 2001. Quincena como monitora de tiempo libre en las Colonias Urbanas de Tres Cantos.
  • Julio 2001. Directora de programa del viaje de estudios organizado por FSL-Council Exchanges Spain en Hastings (Inglaterra).
  • Julio-Agosto 2000. Seis semanas como monitora de tiempo libre en las colonias urbanas organizadas por Elite Community Centre en Londres con niños.
  • Julio 1999. Quincena en prácticas como monitora en las Colonias Urbanas de Tres Cantos.
  • Septiembre de 1999. Quincena como monitora voluntaria a media jornada para Elite Community Centre en Londres.