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22.

A. Olaya-Castro and G.D. Scholes "Energy transfer from Forster-Dexter theory to quantum coherent light-harvesting " , In press Int. Rev. Phys. Chem. (2010)

   
   
 

Peer review Journals

   
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F. Fassioli and A. Olaya-Castro, "Distribution of entanglement in light-harvesting complexes and their quantum efficiency " , New J. Phys. 12, 085006 (2010)

   
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F. Fassioli, A. Nazir, and A. Olaya-Castro, "Quantum state tuning of energy transfer in a correlated environment" , J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 1, 2139 (2010)

   
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F. Fassioli, A. Olaya-Castro, S. Scheuring, J. Sturgis, and N.F. Johnson, “Energy transfer in light-adapted photosynthetic membranes: from active to saturated photosynthesis”, Biophys. J. 97, 2464 (2009)

   
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A. Olaya-Castro, C.F. Lee, F. Fassioli Olsen, and N.F. Johnson, “Efficiency of excitation transfer in photosynthesis under quantum coherence”, Phys. Rev. B 78, 085115 (2008)

   
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T.C. Jarrett, A. Olaya-Castro, and N.F. Johnson, “Optical signatures of quantum phase transitions in a light-matter system”, Eur. Phys. Lett. 3400177 (2007)

 

 

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A. Olaya-Castro, C. Lee, and N.F. Johnson, “Exact simulation of multi-qubit dynamics with only three qubits”, Eur. Phys. Lett. 74 (2), 208 (2006)

   
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A. Olaya-Castro, N. F. Johnson, and L. Quiroga, “A robust one-step catalytic machine for high-fidelity anti-cloning an W-state generation in a multi-qubit system”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 110502 (2005)

   
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A. Olaya-Castro, N. F. Johnson, and L. Quiroga, “Scheme for on-resonance generation of entanglement in time-dependent asymmetric two-qubit-cavity systems”, Phys. Rev. A 70, 020301(R) (2004)

   
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A. Olaya-Castro, N. F. Johnson, and L. Quiroga, “Dynamics of quantum correlations and linear entropy in a multi-qubit-cavity system”, J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 6 S730-S735 (2004)

   
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A. Olaya-Castro, M. Korkusinski, P. Hawrylak, and M.Y.Ivanov, “Effective Bloch equations for strongly driven modulation-doped quantum wells”,  Phys. Rev. B. 68, 155305 (2003)

   
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A. Olaya-Castro, L.Quiroga and C.Tejedor, “Coherence properties of a radiating electron-hole condensate”, Solid State Communications 127, 141 (2003)

   
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A. Olaya-Castro, F.J. Rodríguez, L.Quiroga, and C.Tejedor, "Restrictions on the coherence of the ultrafast optical emission of an Electron-Hole-Pair condensate", Phys. Rev. Lett. 87(24), 246403 (2001). See also the Research Highlights section of Nature physics portal on November 29 of 2001.

   
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A. Olaya-Castro and L. Quiroga. “Bose Einstein-Condensation in an axially symmetric mesoscopic system”. Physica Status Solidi (b) 220, 761 (2000)

   
   
 

Book Chapters

   
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A. Olaya-Castro, F. Fassioli, C. Lee, and N.F. Johnson, “Ultrafast dynamics of photosynthesis”, to appear in “Quantum aspects of Life”. (2007)

   
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A. Olaya-Castro and N. F. Johnson, “Quantum information processing in Nanostructures”, Handbook of Theoretical and Computational Nanotechnology, Edited by Michael Rieth and Wolfram Schommers (American Scientific Publishers, 2004) quant-ph/0406133

   
   
 

Conference Papers

   
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F. Fassioli Olsen, A. Olaya-Castro, and N.F. Johnson, “Dynamics of two-qubit entanglement in a self-interacting spin-bath” J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 84, 012006 (2007)

   
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T.C. Jarrett, A. Olaya-Castro, and N.F. Johnson, “Quantum optical properties of the radiation field in the Dicke model” J.Physics:Conference Series (2007)

   
4. L. Quiroga, A. Olaya-Castro, F.J. Rodríguez, and C.Tejedor, “Ultrafast optical coherence transfer from an electron-hole-pair condensate”, Proceedings of the ICPS-26, Edinburgh, U.K. (2002)
   
   
 

Science Education

   
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A. Olaya-Castro, M. González-Buitrago and A.Montañez-Pinzón "Educación científica básica en Colombia: marco nacional de evaluación (Science education in Colombia: assessment national frame)", Enseñanza de Las Ciencias (Teaching of Sciences), Extra Number, September (2001)

   
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A. Olaya-Castro, M. González-Buitrago, A. Montañez-Pinzón, and G.C. Sánchez-Márquez. Nuevo Examen de Estado para el Ingreso a la Educacion Superior: Cambios para el siglo XXI: CIENCIAS NATURALES (ISSN 01241273), Servicio Nacional de Pruebas (National Testing Service), ICFES, Bogotá, Colombia (1999)

   
1. A. Rocha de la Torre, A. Olaya-Castro,  et al. Nuevo Examen de Estado para el Ingreso a la Educacion Superior: Cambios para el siglo XXI: PROPUESTA GENERAL (ISSN 01241273), Servicio Nacional de Pruebas (National Testing Service), ICFES, Bogotá, Colombia (1999)
   
 

Theses

 

 

 

D.Phil Thesis: Dynamics of Quantum Correlations in multiqubit-cavity systems

 

MSc Thesis: Coherences of Exciton Condensates in Semiconductors