Hello! I am Nicolas Marquez Peraca, a Ph.D. in Physics from Rice University.

[December 2021] Invited seminar talk at the Rice Quantum Initiative Quantum Group Meetings, "Quantum simulation of light-matter interactions using ErFeO3", December 10th, 2021, Houston, TX

[November 2021] Awarded the 2022 SCI Student Training for Advising Research (SCI-STAR) grant!

[June 2021] The International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes and Low-Dimensional Materials (NT21) has started, June 6-11th, 2021 [virtual]

[May 2021] Awarded the 2021 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE! [Rice News]

[May 2021] Recipient of the 2021 Kevin E. Strecker Award by the Physics and Astronomy Department at Rice University! [Rice News]

[May 2021] Invited talk at EducationUSA Uruguay serving as a Rice Ambassador in the Rice Experiences Advertised to Prospects – Internationally (REAP) program, "Studying abroad in the US: my journey to Rice", May 19th, 2021

[May 2021] Officially M.S. in Physics 🎓 

[May 2021] Our work "Ultrastrong Magnon-Magnon Coupling Dominated by Antiresonant Interactions" has been published in Nature Communications

[January 2021] Our works were accepted for oral presentation at the American Physical Society March Meeting (APS), "Terahertz Magnetospectroscopy Evidence of Spin-Magnon Interactions in the Low-Temperature Phase Transition of Erbium Orthoferrites", "Terahertz Magnon Polaritons in YFeO3 in Pulsed High Magnetic Fields",  "Terahertz Phonons and Electron–Phonon Interactions in Two-Dimensional Lead Halide Perovskites", and "Terahertz Time-Domain Magnetospectroscopy of La0.875Sr0.125MnO3", March 15-19th, 2021 [virtual]

[December 2020] Invited seminar talk at NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR), "Terahertz Magnetospectroscopy Evidence of Spin-Magnon Interactions in the Low-Temperature Phase Transition of Erbium Orthoferrites", December 11th, 2020

[November 2020] Our book chapter is now available online! N. Marquez Peraca, A. Baydin, W. Gao, M. Bamba, and J. Kono, “Ultrastrong Light-Matter Coupling in Semiconductors,” in: Semiconductor Quantum Science and Technology, Semiconductors and Semimetals, Volume 105, edited by M. Kira and S. T. Cundiff (Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2021)

[November 2020] Awarded an Outstanding Student Paper Award for my presentation at the International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), November 13th, 2020

[November 2020] Keynote talk at the International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), November 13th, 2020

[November 2020] Our review article is now available online! A. Baydin, T. Makihara, N. Marquez Peraca, and J. Kono, “Time-Domain Terahertz Spectroscopy in High Magnetic Fields,” Frontiers of Optoelectronics

[October 2020] Defended and passed my Ph.D. Candidacy examination!

[October 2020] Best Student Presentation Award finalist for my submission to the International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), November 8-13th, 2020

[September 2020] Our work "Observation of photoinduced terahertz gain in a GaAs quantum wells: Evidence for radiative two-exciton-to-biexciton scattering" has been published in Physical Review Letters

[September 2020] Oral presenter at the 81st Japan Society of Applied Physics-OSA Autumn Meeting for our work "Terahertz Magnetospectroscopy Mapping of the Low-Temperature Phase Transition of ErxY1-xFeO3", September 8th, 2020

[September 2020] Our review article "Time-Domain Terahertz Spectroscopy in High Magnetic Fields" has been submitted and is now available on arXiv

[September 2020] Our work "Perfect Intrinsic Squeezing at the Superradiant Phase Transition Critical Point" has been submitted and is now available on arXiv

[August 2020] Our work "Magnonic Quantum Simulator of Antiresonant Ultrastrong Light-Matter Coupling" has been submitted and is now available on arXiv

[August 2020] Our work "Improved Properties, Increased Production, and the Path to Broad Adoption of Carbon Nanotube Fibers" was featured in Rice News: No limit yet for carbon nanotube fibers

[August 2020]  Our work "Improved Properties, Increased Production, and the Path to Broad Adoption of Carbon Nanotube Fibers" has been published in Carbon

[August 2020] Awarded an SCI Gold Oral Presentation Award for my presentation at the Smalley-Curl Institute (SCI) Summer Research Colloquium

[August 2020] Our work "Magnonic Superradiant Phase Transition" has been submitted and is now available on arXiv

[July 2020] Our work was accepted for an oral presentation at the Smalley-Curl Institute (SCI) Summer Research Colloquium, "Terahertz Magnetospectroscopy of ErxY1-xFeO3 at Low Temperatures: What Does Quantum Optics Has to Say about Magnetic Transitions?", August 7th, 2020, Houston, TX

[June 2020]  My oral presentation at the International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz) has been upgraded to a keynote presentation, November 8-13th, 2020, Buffalo, NY

[May 2020] Oral presenter at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) for our work "Terahertz Magnon Spectroscopy Mapping of the Low-Temperature Phases of ErxY1-xFeO3", May 10-15th, 2020, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California, USA. You can watch my live presentation here (starts  1 h 30 min)

[April 2020] Awarded the Incubic/Milton Chang Travel Grant to present at CLEO 2020

[April 2020] Our work "Observation of Terahertz Gain in Two-Dimensional Magnetoexcitons" has been submitted and is now available on arXiv

[March 2020] Our work was accepted for an oral presentation at the American Physical Society March Meeting (APS), "Low-Temperature Phases of Er1-xYxFeO3 Mapped Out by Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy", March 2-6th, 2020, Denver, Colorado [conference cancelled due to COVID 2019]