Héctor Manuel Moya Cessa

Héctor Manuel Moya Cessa (born 27 June 1966) is a physicist specialising in quantum optics. He is currently a researcher/lecturer at Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Optica y Electrónica, in Tonantzintla, Puebla, Mexico.

Héctor Manuel Moya Cessa
Born (1966-06-27) 27 June 1966 (age 57)
CitizenshipMexican
Alma materUniversidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, Quantum Optics
InstitutionsINAOE
Doctoral advisorSir Peter Knight (physicist)

Life edit

Born in Acayucan, Veracruz, Mexico, Moya Cessa performed work on his PhD with Professor Sir Peter Knight at Imperial College (1990–1993).

He has been awarded several prizes, including the ICO-ICTP Prize and the Science Research Prize of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, both in 2006. In 2021, he was awarded the Marcos Moshinsky Medal by UNAM's Instituto de Física.

He served as President of the Division of Quantum Information of the Mexican Physical Society from 2011 to 2013.

From 1996 to 2015, he was a Regular Associate of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

He has published important works on the generation of non-classical states of the quantized electromagnetic[1] field and in trapped ions.[2] He has also studied analogies between classical and quantum systems in waveguide arrays and with coworkers has experimentally shown how to perform the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) in these type of systems.[3] Using this he has shown that precisely the DFT of a number operator in an s-dimensional Hilbert space corresponds to the best definition of a phase operator[4] in quantum optics: the Pegg and Barnett [5] phase operator.

In Optics he has shown that the Bohm potential can be used to explain the Gouy phase.[6] He has also shown that a GRIN medium, when studied beyond the paraxial approximation, generates an analogy with a quantum Kerr medium.[7] By being able to generate non-classical states such as Schrödinger's cats (superposition of coherent states), separation of a Gaussian beam can be generated in this way without the use of beam splitters.

He has written a number of books involving Quantum Optics, Differential equations and Perturbation theory:

  • Soto-Eguibar, Francisco; Villegas-Martínez, Braulio Misael; Moya-Cessa, Héctor Manuel (2024). The Matrix Perturbation Method in Quantum Mechanics. Springer. ISBN 978-3-031-48545-9.
  • Hernández-Sánchez, Leonardi; Ramos-Prieto, Irán; Soto-Eguibar, Francisco; Moya-Cessa, Héctor Manuel (2023). Formas de línea atómicas en modelos de tipo Jaynes-Cummings. Editorial Académica Española. ISBN 978-620-2-15886-2.
  • Martínez-Carranza, Juan; Moya-Cessa, Héctor Manuel; Soto-Eguibar, Francisco (2012). La teoría de perturbaciones en la mecánica cuántica [The theory of perturbations in quantum mechanics] (in Spanish). ISBN 978-3-8473-6599-0.
  • Manuel, Hector; Moya-cessa, Hector Manuel; Soto, Eguibar; Soto-eguibar, Francisco (2011). Introduction to Quantum Optics. Rinton. ISBN 978-1-58949-061-1.
  • Moya-Cessa, Héctor Manuel; Soto-Eguibar, Francisco (2011). Differential Equations: An Operational Approach. Rinton. ISBN 978-1-58949-060-4.


He is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Mexican Academy of Sciences.[citation needed]

References edit

  1. ^ Moya-Cessa, Héctor (September 2006). "Decoherence in atom–field interactions: A treatment using superoperator techniques". Physics Reports. 432 (1): 1–41. Bibcode:2006PhR...432....1M. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2006.06.001.
  2. ^ Moya-Cessa, Héctor; Soto-Eguibar, Francisco; Vargas-Martínez, José M.; Juárez-Amaro, Raúl; Zúñiga-Segundo, Arturo (April 2012). "Ion–laser interactions: The most complete solution". Physics Reports. 513 (5): 229–261. arXiv:1210.8127. Bibcode:2012PhR...513..229M. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2012.01.002. S2CID 119273686.
  3. ^ Weimann, Steffen; Perez-Leija, Armando; Lebugle, Maxime; Keil, Robert; Tichy, Malte; Gräfe, Markus; Heilmann, René; Nolte, Stefan; Moya-Cessa, Hector; Weihs, Gregor; Christodoulides, Demetrios N.; Szameit, Alexander (23 March 2016). "Implementation of quantum and classical discrete fractional Fourier transforms". Nature Communications. 7 (1): 11027. arXiv:1508.00033. Bibcode:2016NatCo...711027W. doi:10.1038/ncomms11027. PMC 4814576. PMID 27006089.
  4. ^ Perez-Leija, Armando; Andrade-Morales, Luis A; Soto-Eguibar, Francisco; Szameit, Alexander; Moya-Cessa, Héctor M (1 April 2016). "The Pegg–Barnett phase operator and the discrete Fourier transform". Physica Scripta. 91 (4): 043008. arXiv:1512.07175. Bibcode:2016PhyS...91d3008P. doi:10.1088/0031-8949/91/4/043008. S2CID 118343986.
  5. ^ Barnett, S. M.; Pegg, D. T. (April 1990). "Quantum theory of rotation angles". Physical Review A. 41: 3427. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.41.3427.
  6. ^ Moya-Cessa, Héctor M.; Hojman, Sergio A.; Asenjo, Felipe A.; Soto-Eguibar, Francisco (February 2022). "Bohm approach to the Gouy phase shift". Optik. 252: 168468. arXiv:2109.12373. doi:10.1016/j.ijleo.2021.168468. S2CID 237941172.
  7. ^ Soto-Eguibar, F.; Arrizon, V.; Zúñiga-Segundo, A.; Moya-Cessa, H. M. (1 November 2014). "Optical realization of quantum Kerr medium dynamics". Optics Letters. 39 (21): 6158–6161. arXiv:1406.2959. Bibcode:2014OptL...39.6158S. doi:10.1364/OL.39.006158. PMID 25361303.