Non-equilibrium Bose–Einstein condensation in photonic systems

J Bloch, I Carusotto, M Wouters - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The study of Bose–Einstein condensation effects in photonic systems has revealed
a rich phenomenology related to spontaneous coherence generation in driven-dissipative …

Colloquium: Atomtronic circuits: From many-body physics to quantum technologies

L Amico, D Anderson, M Boshier, JP Brantut… - Reviews of Modern …, 2022 - APS
Atomtronics is an emerging field that aims to manipulate ultracold atom moving in matter-
wave circuits for fundamental studies in both quantum science and technological …

Polariton Bose–Einstein condensate from a bound state in the continuum

V Ardizzone, F Riminucci, S Zanotti, A Gianfrate… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Bound states in the continuum (BICs),–are peculiar topological states that, when realized in
a planar photonic crystal lattice, are symmetry-protected from radiating in the far field despite …

The road towards polaritonic devices

D Sanvitto, S Kéna-Cohen - Nature materials, 2016 - nature.com
Polaritons are quasiparticles that form in semiconductors when an elementary excitation
such as an exciton or a phonon interacts sufficiently strongly with light. In particular, exciton …

Exciton–polariton condensates

T Byrnes, NY Kim, Y Yamamoto - Nature Physics, 2014 - nature.com
Recently a new type of system exhibiting spontaneous coherence has emerged—the
exciton–polariton condensate. Exciton–polaritons (or polaritons for short) are bosonic …

Room-temperature superfluidity in a polariton condensate

G Lerario, A Fieramosca, F Barachati, D Ballarini… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Superfluidity—the suppression of scattering in a quantum fluid at velocities below a critical
value—is one of the most striking manifestations of the collective behaviour typical of Bose …

Quantum fluids of light

I Carusotto, C Ciuti - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2013 - APS
This article reviews recent theoretical and experimental advances in the fundamental
understanding and active control of quantum fluids of light in nonlinear optical systems. In …

Room-temperature polariton quantum fluids in halide perovskites

K Peng, R Tao, L Haeberlé, Q Li, D **… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Quantum fluids exhibit quantum mechanical effects at the macroscopic level, which contrast
strongly with classical fluids. Gain-dissipative solid-state exciton-polaritons systems are …

Orbital angular momentum: origins, behavior and applications

AM Yao, MJ Padgett - Advances in optics and photonics, 2011 - opg.optica.org
As they travel through space, some light beams rotate. Such light beams have angular
momentum. There are two particularly important ways in which a light beam can rotate: if …

Nonlinear polariton parametric emission in an atomically thin semiconductor based microcavity

J Zhao, A Fieramosca, R Bao, W Du, K Dini… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Parametric nonlinear optical processes are at the heart of nonlinear optics underpinning the
central role in the generation of entangled photons as well as the realization of coherent …