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Photolumineszenz-Techniken spielen eine wichtige Rolle bei der Charakterisierung verschiedener funktionaler Fluorophore in den Lebens- und Materialwissenschaften, in der Biologie und bis hin zu den Quantentechnologien. Ein entscheidender und wichtiger Parameter für den Vergleich von Fluorophoren ist die Quanteneffizienz, die ein direktes Maß für die Umwandlungseffizienz von absorbierten Photonen in emittierte Photonen darstellt. Diese Größe charakterisiert die Nutzbarkeit von Emittern für Anwendungen in optischen Geräten, Einzelphotonenquellen und im biomedizinischen Bereich. Mehrere Techniken wie optische und photothermische Methoden werden verwendet, um die photolumineszente Quanteneffizienz zu messen, und so die Eignung von Fluorophoren für verschiedene Anwendungen zu bewerten. Quanteneffizienz-Messungen können jedoch eine Herausforderung für hochverdünnte Fluorophore sein, die in dünne Schichten eingebettet sind. Die in dieser Arbeit beschriebene Forschung überwindet die Herausforderungen der Quanteneffizienzmessung durch eine Modifikation der Wechselwirkung zwischen Licht und Umgebung. / Photoluminescence techniques play an important role for characterization of various functional fluorophores in the life and material sciences from biology to quantum technologies. A crucial and key parameter for comparing the performance of fluorophores is the photoluminescence quantum efficiency or quantum yield, which presents a direct measure of conversion efficiency of absorbed photons into emitted photons. This quantity characterizes the performance of emitters for applications in optical devices as single photon sources and in the biomedical sector. Several techniques such as optical and photothermal methods are used to measure the photoluminescence quantum efficiency of emitters in various environments and aggregation states. Quantum efficiency measurements can be challenging for fluorophores in solid matrix, in scattering systems and for highly diluted fluorophores embedded to thin films. The research described in this thesis overcomes these challenges by performing quantum efficiency measurement via modifying the spontaneous emission as a fundamental process of light-matter interaction.

Orientador: Prof. Dr Gustavo Michel Mendoza La Torre / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do ABC, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Física, 2014. / Classical billiards are versatile models for detecting efects of the billiard table over dynamical properties of Hamiltonian systems. Similarly, quantum billiards are ultra-small versions of the same table but now their properties are re ected on eigenvalues of the stationary Schrodinger equation for certain boundary conditions. Integrable and chaotic signatures must distinguish systems at any scale in order to ensure quantum-classical correspondence in the limit ~ ! 0. We demonstrate the classical properties that characterize system dynamics. Also, two intermediate cases are added to debate - mixed and pseudointegrable - for the understanding of possible transitions between dierent dynamics. To do so, the role of action-angle variables in Hamiltonian maps must be discussed. In the quantum context, we seek for ngerprints of classical properties through a systematic study on Local Density of States (LDOS) generated by Green's function numerical methods applied to a lattice representing a Tight-Binding Hamiltonian. We analyze scatisticically the distributions of LDOS from ground state to suciently high levels of energy, trying to identify new characteristics of these systems. This study aims to stimulate experimental measures on LDOS capable to map these signatures through an AFM tip (Atomic Force Microscopy).

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Orientador: Antonio Carlos Ferreira Seridonio / Resumo: Exploramos teoricamente a emergência de estados ligados no contínuo (BICs: bound states in the continuum) em um sistema formado por duas impurezas situadas em lados opostos da folha de grafeno e colineares com o centro da célula hexagonal, onde ambas impurezas estão acopladas aos seis carbonos desta mesma célula, ou ainda acopladas a apenas um átomo fantasma, localizado no centro da célula, que simula os seis carbonos. Verificamos que nesta configuração a densidade local de estados, perto dos pontos de Dirac, exibe aspectos característicos: i) uma densidade de estados com dependência cúbica na energia em vez da dependência linear do grafeno puro, assim como encontrado no New J. Phys. 16, 013045 (2014) e ii) a formação de BICs como consequência de uma interferência Fano destrutiva assistida por uma correlação de Coulomb nas impurezas. Para a geometria em que as impurezas estão colineares com um átomo de carbono, observamos ausência de BICs. / Abstract: We explore theoretically the formation of bound states in the continuum (BICs) in graphene hosting two collinear adatoms situated at different sides of the sheet and at the center of the hexagonal cell, where a phantom atom of a fictitious lattice emulates the six carbons of the cell. We verify that in this configuration the local density of states(LDOS) near the Dirac points exhibits two characteristic features: i) the cubic dependence on energy instead of the linear one for graphene as found in New J. Phys. 16, 013045 (2014) and ii) formation of BICs as aftermath of a Fano destructive interference assisted by the Coulomb correlations in the adatoms. For the geometry where adatoms are collinear to carbon atoms, we report absence of BICs. / Mestre

Dans cette thèse, différents aspects de la propagation de lumière en milieux hétérogènes sont abordés. Dans un premier temps, les concepts et les outils fondamentaux de la propagation des ondes en milieux désordonnés sont rappelés.Ensuite, le régime de localisation d'Anderson est abordé pour des systèmes bidimensionnels ouverts. La localisation est mise en évidence de manière simple à partir du calcul de la figure de speckle transmis par une réalisation unique du désordre et en faisant varier les conditions d'illumination. Les régimes localisé et diffusif sont alors nettement différenciés, permettant d'introduire un nouveau critère pour la localisation.Puis, un régime dilué dans lequel les corrélations du désordre jouent un rôle important est étudié. En particulier, l'étude se concentre sur les milieux hyperuniformes, qui permettent de montrer de manière spectaculaire comment les corrélations peuvent changer les propriétés de diffusion d'un milieu jusqu'à le rendre totalement transparent. L'influence des corrélations du désordre sur le coefficient d'absorption d'un milieu désordonné est également envisagée, elle s'avère être modérée.La dernière partie s'intéresse aux fluctuations du taux d'émission d'un émetteur de type molécule fluorescente enfoui dans un milieu désordonné en fonction de sa position. Cette corrélation spatiale d'un nouveau genre permet d'obtenir de manière découplée des informations sur les détails microscopiques du milieu (corrélations) et l'environnement local de la source. / In this thesis, different aspects of wave propagation in complex media are adressed. First, basicconcepts and tools of the propagation of waves in disordered media are reminded.Then, the Anderson localization regime is tackled for two-dimensional open systems. The localization is highlighted in a simple way from a calculation of the transmitted speckle pattern for a single configuration of the disorder with varying illumination conditions. Localized and diffused regimes are clearly differenciated, allowing to introduce a new critria for localization.Next, a weak scattering regime for which correlations of the disorder play a significant role is investigated. Namely, the study is focused on hyperuniform materials, where correlations are such that they are transparent compared with their uncorreleted equivalent. The influence of the correlations of the disorder on the absorption coefficient is also considered, but it is found to be moderated.The final part is dedicated to the fluctuations of the decay rate of an emitter, (e. g. fluorescentmolecule), embedded in a disordered medium as a function of its position. This new type of spatialcorrelation allows to extract information on the microscopic details of the medium (correlations) and the local environment of the source in an uncoupled way.

Dans une première partie nous explorerons les effets d'impuretés désordonnées et paramagnétiques sur l'effet spin-Hall intrinsèque dans un gaz d'électrons bi-dimensionnel avec un couplage spin-orbite de Rashba. A faible désordre, la conductivité de spin-Hall reste proche de sa valeur d'échantillon pur, comme le montrent un calcul analytique de réponse linéaire et une étude numérique. De fortes fluctuations sont toutefois observées, elles augmentent avec l'importance du désordre. Pour caractériser la dynamique d'un paquet d'onde sur un réseau, nous mesurons sa taille, le taux de participation inverse, et sa dimension de corrélation. Le système subit une transition de localisation à une valeur critique du désordre. Dans le régime localisé, la densité locale d'états n'est plus uniforme et ne coïncide plus avec la densité totale d'états. Une corrélation antiferromagnétique entre les impuretés et les électrons de conduction est observée. Après la transition de localisation, la conductivité de spin augmente significativement. La première correction quantique dans le formalisme de réponse linéaire, contribue positivement à la conductivité de spin-Hall. Dans une seconde partie, le modèle de Hubbard avec double échange avec corrélations électroniques est étudié par la méthode du champ moyen dynamique (DMFT) dans l'approximation de non-croisement pour la résolution du problème d'impureté (NCA). Autour du quart remplissage, un polaron orbital est observé et décrit à l'aide d'un Hamiltonien effectif. Le double échange dans les semi-conducteurs magnétiques dilués est étudié dans l'approximation du potentiel cohérent (CPA). / Spintronics is a research area that is concerned with the storage and transfer of information by means of electron spins. In the first part we investigated the intrinsic spin Hall effect in the presence of disordered magnetic impurities in a paramagnetic state in a two dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. In the presence of weak magnetic disorder the spin Hall conductivity stays close to its universal (clean system) value, as shown by analytical linear response calculations and numerical simulations. Heavy spin conductivity fluctuations are observed, that increase with disorder strength. To investigate the spreading of a wavepacket on a lattice we measure the wavepacket width, the inverse participation ratio and the (2)-fractal dimension. It is shown the system undergoes a localization transition at a critical disorder strength. In the localized regime the local density of states is not uniform anymore. An anti-ferromagnetic correlation between electron spins and impurity magnetic moments is observed. Beyond the localization transition the spin conductivity increases significantly. The first quantum (Cooperon) corrections in the linear response formalism are shown to contribute positively to the spin Hall conductivity. In the second part the double exchange Hubbard model for correlated electron systems is studied using dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) with the non-crossing approximation (NCA). Around quarter filling an orbital polaron is observed, numerically and in an effective Hamiltonian. Double exchange in dilute magnetic semiconductors is studied using the coherent potential approximation (CPA).

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