CURRICULUM VITAE

 
PERSONAL DATA 

Name MIGUEL ORSZAG POSA

RUT  4.751.120-8

Place of Birth  Santiago, Chile 

Address

Facultad de Fisica,

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Casilla 306, Santiago 22, Chile

Office phone number: (56-2) 686-4495 

FAX: (56-2) 553-6468

E-mail: morszag@fis.puc.cl
y

Centro de Optica e Informacion Cuantica,
 Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Mayor
miguel.orszag@umayor.cl

 

STUDIES AND DEGREES 

Electrical Engineer, Universidad de Chile(1969)

Ph. D. in Physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Mass, USA (1973)

Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto (1973-1974) 

PRIZES AND HONORS: 

{1.} Honnewell Research Fellow (1972-1973)

{2.} Associate Member of the International Center for Theoretical
Physics (1983-1988).

{3} Fellow of the Optical Society of America (since 2008)

{4} Member of the Chilean Academy of Science (since 2008)

{5}Member of the International Committee of the Optical Society of America (2010-1013)

{6}Fellow of the American Physical Society (2017)

 

POSITIONS HELD
 

{1.} Professor of Physics, Facultad de Fisica, Pontificia Universidad

Catolica de Chile (1979-now) and director of Centro de Optica e Informacion Cuantica, Universidad Mayor. (2017-) 

{2.} Visiting Professor, Physics and Astronomy Department, University of New Mexico (1989, 1st semester).
 

{3.} Visiting Professor, Physics and Astronomy Department, University of New Mexico (1986-1987) (1year).

 

{4.} Faculty Member at Physics Department, Ryerson PolytechnicalInstitute, Toronto, Canada (1975-1978).

 

{5.} Research Associate, Institute for Aerospace Studies,University of Toronto, Canada (1974-1975).


{6.} Post Doctoral Fellow, Institute for Aerospace Studies, University of Toronto, Canada (1973-1974).
 

{7.} Graduate Student, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1970-1973).

 

VISITING POSITIONS


{1.} Visiting Professor at the Physics and Astronomy Department, University of New Mexico (1986-87) 1 year; 

{2.} Visiting Professor at the Physics and Astronomy Department, University of New  Mexico (1989) 1 Semester;

{3} Visiting Professor on various dates, at the Theoretical Physics Institute, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil {1990-2002};

{4.} Visiting Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,Garching, Munchen, Germany (1992) 1month; 

{5.} Visiting Professor at the Physics Department, University of Auckland,  New Zealand Jan-April 1994. 

{6.}Visiting Professor at Univ. de Grenoble and CNRS (France) 2006.

{7.} Visiting Scientist at the CNRS and University of Grenoble (2009)

 

 

RESEARCH INTEREST:

 

Quantum Optics: Quantum Models of Interaction of Radiation and

Matter. Superradiance, Nonlinear Optical Phenomena, Harmonic

Generation, Raman Effect, Self Induced Transparency, Optical

Chaos, Free Electron Lasers, Correlated Emission Lasers and

Quantum Noise Quenching. Quantum Theory of Measurement. Atomic

Interferometry.Quantum Trajectories, Trapped Ions,

Decoherence.Gravity Wave detection. Quantum Interference. Ion Trap

Laser.Quantum computers and Processors, Quantum entanglement,

Continuous Teleportation, Quantum Discrimination, Quantum Zeno

Effect, Decoherence Free subspaces.Quantum Cryptography.

Quantum State discrimination

Quantum State Protection, Sudden death of entanglement, quantum discord, etc

Weak measurements and applications

Quantum correlations in opto-mechanical systems

Weak-strong measurement transition in various physical systems

Complementarity in optics

Quantum correlations and geometry


 

 

THESIS ADVISING 

(1) Orlando Wong, Licenciatura in Physics 1981; 

(2) Luis Huerta, Licenciatura in Physics 1984; 

(3) Eusebio Fernández ,Master in Physics (1986-87) 1987;  

{4) M.Loreto Ladron de Guevara, Licenciatura in Physics 1991; 

(5) Juan Carlos Retamal, Ph. D. in Physics (1988-1991) 1991;

(6) Carlos Saavedra}, Ph.D. in Physics (1989-1992) 1992; 

(7) Luis Roa}, Ph.D.in Physics (1990-1994)1994;

(8) Bernd Rohwedder, Ph.D.in Physics (1993-1997)1997;

(9) Douglas Mundarain, Ph.D.in Physics (1994-1998)1998;

(10) Loreto Ladron de Guevara, Ph.D.in Physics (1993-1999)1999; 

(11) Eduardo Massoni , Ph.D.in Physics (1996-2000)2000; 

(12) Robert Guzman , Magister in Physics (2000-2002)2002; 

(13) Jerónimo Maze, Magister in Physics (2002-2004)2004; 

(14) Joanna Gonzalez , Magister in Physics (2002-2004)2004; 

(15) Francisco Larrain , Magister in Physics (2002-2004)2004;

(16) Sergio Dagach , Licenciatura in Physics 2005; 

(17) Maritza Hernandez , Licenciatura in Physics 2005;

(18) Paul Blackburn , Magister in Physics (2004-2006)2006

(19) Abel Horn, Diplom (with S.Wallentowitz and M.Freyberger), 2006

(20)Victor Montenegro, Licenciatura in Physics (2008)

(21) Rodrigo Canto, Licenciatura in Physics (2009)

(22) Maritza Hernandez, Ph.D in Physics (2006-2009) 2009

(23) Raul Coto, Licenciatura in Physics, 2010

(24) Gonzalo Diaz, Licenciatura in Physics, 2010

(25) Victor Montenegro, Magister in Physics (2009-2011), 2011

(26) Maria de los Angeles Gallego, Magister in Physics (2009-2011) 2011

(27)Raul Coto, Ph.D in Physics, (2011-2015)2015

(28)Sergio Carrasco, Ph.D,2021.

(29)Felipe Oyarce, Masters, (2017-2019)2019

(30)Mario Miranda, Ph.D, (2018-2022)

(31)Kevin Araya, Ph.D, in progress

(32) Hugo Molinares, Ph.D, in progress

 

Note:Licenciatura is similar to a Bachelor in Physics (with a short thesis)

  INVITED TALKS 
{1.} Fourth International Symposium, Quantum Optics IV, Hamilton,
  New Zealand ,February 10-15 1986,Invited Talk(  "Quantum and many
   body effects in a Compton regime free electron laser").
 
{2.} Instabilities and Non Equilibrium Structures II, Valpara'iso,
   Chile Dec. 1987, Invited Talk ("Reduction of Quantum Noise in
   Atomic Systems).
 
{3.}19th Winter Colloquium on Quantum
Electronics, Snowbird,   Utah,USA, Jan 1989, Invited Talk
(Correlated Emission Lasers).
 
{4.} Instabilities and Non Equilibrium Structures III, Valpara'iso,
  Chile, Dec. 1989, Invited Talk ("Photon noise reduction in
   in light sources"). 

{5.} Instabilities and Non
Equilibrium Structures III, Valpara'iso,    Chile, Dec 1989,Invited Talk
("Hamiltonian Chaos in a laser damage    model").

{6.} New frontiers in Quantum Electrodynamics and Quantum Optics,
  Istanbul, Turkey, Aug 1989.InvitedTalk ( "A model for laser damage
   and example of Hamiltonian Chaos). A. O. Barut, ed.
 
{7.} 21st Winter Colloquium on Quantum Electronics, Snowbird,
   Utah,USA, Jan 1991,Invited Talk ("Phase fluctuations in a laser
   with atomic memory effects")
 
{8.} Instabilities and Non Equilibrium Structures IV, Santiago,
  Chile, Dec. 1991, Invited Talk ("Quantum and Atom Optics.
  Measurement effects")
 
{9.} Instabilities and Non Equilibrium Structures IV, Santiago,
   Chile, Dec. 1991, Invited Talk ("Two Photon Micromaser. From
   trapping to ideal squeezed states").
 
{10.} School on Squeezed States and Bells Inequalities, Caracas,
   November 1992, Invited Course ("Reduction of Quantum Noise in
   Atomic Systems"). 

{11.} Quantum Optics VI, Auckland, New Zealand, Jan 24-28 1994,
  Invited Talk ("Measurement Effects on Quantum Optical Systems").

 
{12.} V Escola Jorge Andre Swieca, Otica cuantica e Nao linear
  Invited Course, on Jan 8-20 1996, Rio deJaneiro, Brasil ( Optica
  de Atomos-Atomic Optics).
 
{13.} III RIAO, VI Optilas, Cartagena, Colombia, Sep 28-Oct 2 1998,
Invited Talk ("Quantum Trajectories.Physical Interpretation").

 
{14.} International Conference on Laser Physics and Quantum
Optics,Shanghai, China August 25-28,1999,Invited talk , (
 "Creation of Fock states in an Optical cavity via Phonon-Photon
  interaction").
 

{15.}PASI 2000, Angra dos Reis,Brasil, April 26-May 7, 2000, Invited
   Course ("Quantum Optics Course").

{16.}Quantum Optics 1, Santiago Chile August 13-16, 2000, invited
   talk (" Phonon-photon translation with a trapped ion in  a    cavity")

 
{17.}10-th International Laser Physics Workshop,LPHYS01,
  Moscow,Russia,July 3-7,2001, Invited Talk( "Generation of a
  Squeezed State in an Ion-Trap Laser:Stability analysis ")

  {18.}11-th International Laser Physics    Workshop,LPHYS02, Bratislava,
 
Slovakia
,July 1-5,2002, Invited Talk    ("Generation of quantum states in an Ion-Trap Laser ")
 
{19.}11-th International Laser Physics Workshop,LPHYS02, Bratislava,
   Slovakia ,July 1-5,2002, Invited Talk ( "Physical Interpretation
  of Quantum Trajectories in Cavity QED ")
 
{20.}8-th International conference on Squeezed States and
   Uncertainty Relations ICSSUR 2003, Puebla,Mexico,June 9-13,2003,
Invited Talk ( "Perfect Transmission of a Field Antibunching Via
  Continuous Variable Teleportation ")
 
{21.}International conference "Entanglement, Information and Noise,
   Krzyzowa, Poland,June 14-20,2004,  Invited Talk ( "Quantum cloning
   and cavity QED ") 

{22.}Quantum Optics II, Cozumel, Mexico August 13-16, 2004, invited
 
talk ("Quantum cloning and cavity QED  ")

 
{23.}9-th International conference on Squeezed States and
   Uncertainty Relations ICSSUR 2005, Becancon, France,May 2-6,2005,
  Invited Talk ( "A proposal for a universal quantum copying machine
in cavity QED ")
 

{24.}International Conference on Quantum optics, Hong Kong, December
   16-20, 2005, invited talk (" A single ion stochastic processor")

{25.}Quantum Optics III, Pucon, Chile, November 27-30, 2006, invited
   talk (" Decoherence Free subspace and entanglement by interaction
  with a common squeezed bath)

{26}CNRS invited course, Grenoble, France, May 2006
{"Logical gates and quantum processors with trapped ions and cavities"}
 
{27.}SPIE-Fluctuations and Noise, Florence, Italy, May 20-24, 2007,
   invited talk (" Decoherence Free subspace and entanglement by
 interaction with a common squeezed bath")

{28.}ELAF 07, August 27-September 7,2007,  Mexico City, Mexico,  Invited Course
 ("Logical Gates and quantum processors with trapped    ions and cavities")

{29}Quantum Optics IV, Florianopolis, Brazil, Nov 2008, invited talk
("Decoherence versus disentanglement for two qubits in a squeezed bath")

{30}Journee "Decoherence et information quantique", June 15, 2009, CNRS, Grenoble, France, invited talk
("Entanglement and Quantum Discord in a 2 qubit system")

{31} CEWQO 2011, May 30-June 3, 2011, Madrid Spain, invited talk
("Coherence, Entanglement and Quantum Discord in atomic systems")

{32}Quantum Optics VI, 12-16 November, 2012, Piriapolis, Uruguay, invited talk
("Thermally Generated Quantum Correlations in Cavity QED")

{33} Quantum Optics and New Materials, May 26-29, 2013, Beijing, China, invited talk
("Propagation and Distribution of Quantum Correlations in a cavity QED network")

{34} BergeFest, April 21-25, 2014, Singapore, invited talk
("Propagation and Distribution of Quantum Correlations")

{35}"Quantum Optics VII", 27-31 October, 2014, Mar del Plata, Argentina, Invited talk
("Propagation and Distribution and criticality of Quantum Correlations")

{36}"Quantum Optics VIII", 23-27 Octubre 2016, Sao Paulo, Sao Sebastian, Brasil, invited talk
("The power of a control qubit in weak measurement")

{37}"SUMA"14-17 December, 2016,  Valparaiso, Chile
{"Weak measurements and applications"}

{38}"International Symposium on Quantum Computing and Quantum Optics",
 Zheijang University, Hangzhou, China, Mayo 22-25, 2018
Invited talk:"Strange weak value of photon number operators in the opto-mechanical interaction"

{39}"Quantum Optics IX, Cartagena, Colombia, October 21-26, 2018
Invited talk:"Weak value amplification of photon number operators in the opto-mechanical interaction"

{40}  XXI Simposio Chileno de Fisica, Antofagasta, Chile, November 14-14, 2018
Invited Talk:"Weak Measurements"

{41} International Symposium on Quantum Computing and Quantum Optics II, Hangzhou, China,  May 24-26, 2019
Invited talk "Fisher Information, weak values and correlated noise in interferometry"