Hello and welcome to my webpage !

My name is David Fattal, I'm a physicist working at HP Labs in the heart of Silicon Valley. I grew up and went to college in France near Paris, and moved to California in 2001 for grad school. I love it here and I decided to stay, at least for a while...

I tried to put together some information about my life here in general, and my research in particular. Please drop me a line if you have comments, or just want to say hi !

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News

I graduated from Stanford in October 2005, after completing my Ph.D. in Yoshi Yamamoto's group . I spent a year of post-doc in the Quantum Science Research group at HP Labs, under Stan Williams and Ray Beausoleil. I'm now part of the research staff, focusing on various aspects of Quantum Information and Nanophotonics.

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Research

My interests bear on all aspects of Quantum Mechanics, with a strong emphasis on Quantum Electrodynamics. As a graduate student at Stanford, I specialized in the control of light at the nanoscale. My Ph.D. thesis bore on ways to create and trap single photons in matter in a coherent and reversible way, as well as how to use these photons for interesting quantum information processing tasks. I have also worked on various aspects of quantum information theory, especially the stabilizer formalism.

Now at HP Labs, I am trying to design practical systems at the frontier between quantum information and nanophotonics. I also recently grew a strong interest for environmental issues (well California, you know...) and am trying to come up with original ideas to improve solar cells.

Here is a list of research projects that I have been involved with:

Surface-enhanced spectroscopy
Spectroscopy of semiconductor quantum dots and diamond NV centers
Single photon sources for Quantum Communication
Cavity QED with Quantum Dots in photonic crystals

Simulation of photonic nanosructures (photonic crystals, plasmons...)
Simulation of photonic network for quantum information processing

Quantum Information theory, with an emphasis on multi-partite entanglement and the stabilizer formalism
Green's function formalism to study defects or disorder in photonic nanostructures
Interface between stationnary and flying qubits in quantum network architectures

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