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Basics
| Name | Carlos Sánchez Muñoz |
| Position | Permanent Researcher (Científico Titular) — Quantum Optics & Quantum Technologies |
| carlos.sanchez AT iff.csic.es | |
| Url | https://carlossmwolff.github.io/ |
| Summary | Researcher in quantum optics and quantum technologies, focused on light–matter interactions, quantum metrology, generation of quantum radiation, open quantum systems, and quantum nanomechanics. |
Work
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2024.01 - Present Madrid, Spain
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2020.01 - 2023.12 Madrid, Spain
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2018.01 - 2020.12 Oxford, United Kingdom
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2017.01 - 2018.12 Wako-shi, Japan
Education
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2013.01 - 2016.12 Madrid, Spain
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2011.01 - 2012.12 Madrid, Spain
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2006.01 - 2011.12 Madrid, Spain
Awards
- 2025.07.01
BBVA Leonardo Grant
BBVA Foundation
Grant awarded to project: “Tecnologías cuánticas en la frontera del terahercio”
- 2021.01.01
SNSF Scientific Exchanges Grant
Swiss National Science Foundation
Grant to cover international research visits to Swiss research institutions.
- 2020.01.01
La Caixa Junior Leader Postdoctoral Fellowship
Obra Social Fundación la Caixa
Three-year postdoctoral grant covering fellow salary and ~38k€ of research costs per year.
- 2019.01.01
Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación 2018 (declined)
Spanish Ministry of Science
- 2018.01.01
Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado (Extraordinary Award)
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- 2017.01.01
GEFES Award — Best Theoretical Thesis (Condensed Matter Physics)
Condensed Matter Division, Spanish Royal Society of Physics
Awarded for best theoretical PhD thesis in Condensed Matter Physics.
- 2017.01.01
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (Proposal acronym: QUSON)
European Union (Horizon 2020)
- 2017.01.01
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan (Short-term)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- 2014.01.01
FPI Mobility Grant (awarded twice)
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
Short-term research stays at Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics (Germany) and University of Sussex (UK).
- 2013.01.01
FPI Predoctoral Grant
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
Four-year grant for PhD studies.
- 2011.01.01
Grant for beginning of Postgraduate programmes
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Support for research work during early researcher stages.
- 2010.01.01
Collaboration Grant (Undergraduate research scholarship)
Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia
Publications
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2024.01.01 Single-photon source over the terahertz regime.
PRX Quantum
PRX Quantum 5 (1), 010312 (2024). Authors: C. Groiseau, A. I. Fernández-Domínguez, D. Martín-Cano, C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2024.01.01 Strongly coupled spin waves and surface acoustic waves at room temperature.
Physical Review Letters
Physical Review Letters 132 (5), 056704 (2024). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2024.01.01 Parameter estimation from quantum-jump data using neural networks.
Quantum Science and Technology
Quantum Science and Technology 9 (3), 035018 (2024). Authors: E. Rinaldi et al., including C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2024.01.01 Quantum amplification and simulation of strong and ultrastrong coupling of light and matter.
Physics Reports
Physics Reports 1078, 1–59 (2024). Authors: W. Qin, A. Frisk Kockum, C. Sánchez Muñoz, A. Miranowicz, F. Nori.
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2024.01.01 Dissipative stabilization of maximal entanglement between nonidentical emitters via two-photon excitation.
Physical Review Research
Physical Review Research 6 (4), 043051 (2024). Authors: A. Vivas-Viaña, D. Martín-Cano, C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2024.01.01 Frequency-resolved Purcell effect for the dissipative generation of steady-state entanglement.
Physical Review Letters
Physical Review Letters 133 (17), 173601 (2024). Authors: A. Vivas-Viaña, D. Martín-Cano, C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2023.01.01 Interaction between giant atoms in a one-dimensional structured environment.
Physical Review A
Physical Review A 107 (1), 013710 (2023). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2023.01.01 On the generality of symmetry breaking and dissipative freezing in quantum trajectories.
SciPost Physics Core
SciPost Physics Core 6 (1), 004 (2023). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2023.01.01 Nonlinear interferometry for quantum-enhanced measurements of multiphoton absorption.
Physical Review Letters
Physical Review Letters 130 (20), 203604 (2023). Authors: S. Panahiyan, C. Sánchez Muñoz, M. V. Chekhova, F. Schlawin.
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2023.01.01 Nonlinear acoustic spin pumping caused by temperature-dependent frequency shifts of surface acoustic waves.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
JPSJ 92 (9), 094702 (2023). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2023.01.01 Resolving nonclassical magnon composition of a magnetic ground state via a qubit.
Physical Review Letters
Physical Review Letters 131 (14), 143602 (2023). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2022.01.01 Unconventional mechanism of virtual-state population through dissipation.
Physical Review A
Physical Review A 106, 012217 (2022). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2022.01.01 Two-photon-absorption measurements in the presence of single-photon losses.
Physical Review A
Physical Review A 106 (4), 043706 (2022). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2022.01.01 Spontaneous scattering of Raman photons from cavity-QED systems in the ultrastrong coupling regime.
Physical Review Letters
Physical Review Letters 129 (27), 273602 (2022). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2021.01.01 Two-photon resonance fluorescence of two interacting non-identical quantum emitters.
Physical Review Research
Physical Review Research 3, 033136 (2021). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2021.01.01 Classification and reconstruction of optical quantum states with deep neural networks.
Physical Review Research
Physical Review Research 3 (3), 033278 (2021). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2021.01.01 Quantum metrology of two-photon absorption.
Physical Review Research
Physical Review Research 3, 033250 (2021). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2021.01.01 Quantum state tomography with conditional generative adversarial networks.
Physical Review Letters
Physical Review Letters 127 (14), 140502 (2021). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2021.01.01 Squeezed lasing.
Physical Review Letters
Physical Review Letters 127 (18), 183603 (2021). Authors: C. Sánchez Muñoz, D. Jaksch.
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2020.01.01 Quantum synchronisation enabled by dynamical symmetries and dissipation.
New Journal of Physics
New Journal of Physics 22 (1), 013026 (2020). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2020.01.01 Photon correlation spectroscopy as a witness for quantum coherence.
Physical Review Letters
Physical Review Letters 124 (20), 203601 (2020). Authors: C. Sánchez Muñoz, F. Schlawin.
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2020.01.01 Simulating ultrastrong-coupling processes breaking parity conservation in Jaynes-Cummings systems.
Physical Review A
Physical Review A 102 (3), 033716 (2020). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2019.01.01 Engineering and harnessing giant atoms in high-dimensional baths: a proposal for implementation with cold atoms.
Physical Review Letters
Physical Review Letters 122 (20), 203603 (2019). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2019.01.01 Symmetries and conservation laws in quantum trajectories: Dissipative freezing.
Physical Review A
Physical Review A 100 (4), 042113 (2019). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2018.01.01 Filtering multiphoton emission from state-of-the-art cavity quantum electrodynamics.
Optica
Optica 5 (1), 14–26 (2018). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2018.01.01 Topological order and thermal equilibrium in polariton condensates.
Nature Materials
Nature Materials 17 (2), 145–151 (2018). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2018.01.01 First observation of the quantized exciton-polariton field and effect of interactions on a single polariton.
Science Advances
Science Advances 4 (4), eaao6814 (2018). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2018.01.01 Resolution of superluminal signalling in non-perturbative cavity quantum electrodynamics.
Nature Communications
Nature Communications 9 (1), 1924 (2018). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2018.01.01 Hybrid systems for the generation of nonclassical mechanical states via quadratic interactions.
Physical Review Letters
Physical Review Letters 121 (12), 123604 (2018). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2017.01.01 Macroscopic Two-Dimensional Polariton Condensates.
Physical Review Letters
Physical Review Letters 118 (21), 215301 (2017). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2016.01.01 Degenerate parametric oscillation in quantum membrane optomechanics.
Physical Review A
Physical Review A 93, 023846 (2016) (listed as 2015/2016 in CV). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2016.01.01 Deterministic down-converter and continuous photon-pair source within the bad-cavity limit.
Physical Review Letters
Physical Review Letters 117 (20), 203602 (2016). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2016.01.01 The colored hanbury brown–twiss effect.
Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports 6 (1), 37980 (2016). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2016.01.01 Excitation with quantum light. II. Exciting a two-level system.
Physical Review A
Physical Review A 94 (6), 063826 (2016). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2015.01.01 Coherent generation of nonclassical light on chip via detuned photon blockade.
Physical Review Letters
Physical Review Letters 114 (23), 233601 (2015). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2015.01.01 Exciting polaritons with quantum light.
Physical Review Letters
Physical Review Letters 115 (19), 196402 (2015). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2015.01.01 Enhanced two-photon emission from a dressed biexciton.
New Journal of Physics
New Journal of Physics 17 (12), 123021 (2015). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2014.01.01 Emitters of N-photon bundles.
Nature Photonics
Nature Photonics 8 (7), 550–555 (2014). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2014.01.01 Violation of classical inequalities by photon frequency filtering.
Physical Review A
Physical Review A 90 (5), 052111 (2014). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2013.01.01 Bichromatic dressing of a quantum dot detected by a remote second quantum dot.
Physical Review B
Physical Review B 88 (7), 075309 (2013). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
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2012.01.01 Plasmon-polariton emission from a coherently-excited quantum dot near a metal interface.
Physical Review B
Physical Review B 85 (12), 125301 (2012). Authors include C. Sánchez Muñoz.
Projects
- 2024.09 - 2027.09
Sensores con Correlaciones Cuánticas en Sistemas Luz Materia Abiertos (SEQUOIA)
Competitive research project (PID2023-149969NA-I00).
- Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
- Funding: ~75k€
- 2020.08 - 2023.07
La Caixa Junior Leader: Multiphoton sources from single quantum emitters
Junior Leader postdoctoral project.
- Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
- Funding: 305,100 €
- 2018.06 - 2020.06
Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (QUSON)
Horizon 2020 MSCA-IF fellowship hosted at University of Oxford.
- Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
- Funding: 183,454.8 €
- 2017.10 - 2018.04
JSPS Short-term Fellowship
Fellowship at RIKEN, Japan.
- Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
- Funding: ~43k€
- 2022.09 - 2025.09
Ingeniería Cuántica de Luz y Materia en la Nanoescala (PID2021-126964OB-I00)
Research project (work team member).
- Role: Work team member
- Funding: ~150k€
- 2022.07 - 2025.07
Nanofotónica para Computación Cuántica (NanoQuCo) — Y2020/TCS-6545
Regional project (work team member; collaboration in project design).
- Role: Work team member
- Funding: 657,800 €
- - Present
- 2015.01 - 2017.12
Quantum Optics in nanostructured semiconductors (QOINS)
Research project (work team).
- Role: Work team member
- - Present
Nanoestructuras para óptica cuántica (NANOQUO)
Research project (work team).
- Role: Work team member
- Funding: 466,942 €