Polariton panorama

DN Basov, A Asenjo-Garcia, PJ Schuck, X Zhu… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
In this brief review, we summarize and elaborate on some of the nomenclature of polaritonic
phenomena and systems as they appear in the literature on quantum materials and …

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 …

Quantum simulations and many-body physics with light

C Noh, DG Angelakis - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
In this review we discuss the works in the area of quantum simulation and many-body
physics with light, from the early proposals on equilibrium models to the more recent works …

Quantum nonlinear optics with single photons enabled by strongly interacting atoms

T Peyronel, O Firstenberg, QY Liang, S Hofferberth… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
The realization of strong nonlinear interactions between individual light quanta (photons) is
a long-standing goal in optical science and engineering,, being of both fundamental and …

Calculation of Rydberg interaction potentials

S Weber, C Tresp, H Menke, A Urvoy… - Journal of Physics B …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The strong interaction between individual Rydberg atoms provides a powerful tool exploited
in an ever-growing range of applications in quantum information science, quantum …

Strong coupling and single-photon nonlinearity in free-electron quantum optics

A Karnieli, C Roques-Carmes, N Rivera, S Fan - ACS Photonics, 2024 - ACS Publications
A central challenge in the emerging field of free-electron quantum optics is to achieve strong
quantum interaction and single-photon nonlinearity between a flying free electron and a …

Photon-photon interactions via Rydberg blockade

AV Gorshkov, J Otterbach, M Fleischhauer, T Pohl… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
We develop the theory of light propagation under the conditions of electromagnetically
induced transparency in systems involving strongly interacting Rydberg states. Taking into …

Cavity QED with atomic mirrors

DE Chang, L Jiang, AV Gorshkov… - New Journal of …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
A promising approach to merge atomic systems with scalable photonics has emerged
recently, which consists of trap** cold atoms near tapered nanofibers. Here, we describe a …

Electromagnetically induced transparency with Rydberg atoms

D Petrosyan, J Otterbach, M Fleischhauer - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
We present a theory of electromagnetically induced transparency in a cold ensemble of
strongly interacting Rydberg atoms. Long-range interactions between the atoms constrain …

Nonlocal nonlinear optics in cold Rydberg gases

S Sevinçli, N Henkel, C Ates, T Pohl - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
We present an analytical theory for the nonlinear optical response of a strongly interacting
Rydberg gas under conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency. Simple …