Nanoscale optical trap**: a review

C Bradac - Advanced Optical Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Optical trap** is the craft of manipulating objects with light. Decades after its first inception
in 1970, the technique has become a powerful tool for ultracold‐atom physics and …

2D organic single crystals: Synthesis, novel physics, high-performance optoelectronic devices and integration

L Zhang, MM Hasan, Y Tang, AR Khan, H Yan… - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
In the last decade, two-dimensional organic single crystals (2D OSCs), defined as a class of
ultrathin crystals with atomic or molecular level thickness and micrometer-scale-lateral …

Migrating photon avalanche in different emitters at the nanoscale enables 46th-order optical nonlinearity

Y Liang, Z Zhu, S Qiao, X Guo, R Pu, H Tang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A photon avalanche (PA) effect that occurs in lanthanide-doped solids gives rise to a giant
nonlinear response in the luminescence intensity to the excitation light intensity. As a result …

Giant nonlinear optical responses from photon-avalanching nanoparticles

C Lee, EZ Xu, Y Liu, A Teitelboim, K Yao… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Avalanche phenomena use steeply nonlinear dynamics to generate disproportionately large
responses from small perturbations, and are found in a multitude of events and materials …

Superfluorescence from lead halide perovskite quantum dot superlattices

G Rainò, MA Becker, MI Bodnarchuk, RF Mahrt… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
An ensemble of emitters can behave very differently from its individual constituents when
they interact coherently via a common light field. After excitation of such an ensemble …

Open quantum systems with local and collective incoherent processes: Efficient numerical simulations using permutational invariance

N Shammah, S Ahmed, N Lambert, S De Liberato… - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
The permutational invariance of identical two-level systems allows for an exponential
reduction in the computational resources required to study the Lindblad dynamics of …

Characterizing superradiant dynamics in atomic arrays via a cumulant expansion approach

O Rubies-Bigorda, S Ostermann, SF Yelin - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
Ordered atomic arrays with subwavelength lattice spacing emit light collectively. For fully
inverted atomic arrays, this results in an initial burst of radiation and a fast buildup of …

Photon blockade with ground-state neutral atoms

A Cidrim, TS do Espirito Santo, J Schachenmayer… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We show that induced dipole-dipole interactions allow for photon blockade in
subwavelength ensembles of two-level, ground-state neutral atoms. Our protocol relies on …

Cooperative many-body enhancement of quantum thermal machine power

W Niedenzu, G Kurizki - New Journal of Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the impact of cooperative many-body effects on the operation of periodically-driven
quantum thermal machines, particularly heat engines and refrigerators. In suitable …

Validity of mean-field theory in a dissipative critical system: Liouvillian gap, -symmetric antigap, and permutational symmetry in the model

D Huybrechts, F Minganti, F Nori, M Wouters… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We study the all-to-all connected XYZ (anisotropic-Heisenberg) spin model with local and
collective dissipations, comparing the results of mean-field (MF) theory with the solution of …