Strong confinement, in all dimensions, and high mechanical frequencies are highly desirable for quantum optomechanical applications. We show that GaAs/AlAs micropillar cavities fully confine not only photons but also ...

Recent experiments demonstrated that GaAs/AlAs based micropillar cavities are promising systems for quantum optomechanics, allowing the simultaneous three-dimensional confinement of near-infrared photons and acoustic phonons ...

The present thesis aims to investigate the photon blockade effect, understood as a phenomenon in which the presence of a single photon inhibits further photons, effectively transforming a system into one that emits one ...

This thesis explores the intersections between quantum computing, quantum physics and machine learning. In the three fields, estimating probability distributions plays a central role. In the case of quantum computing and ...