Enhanced metrology at the critical point of a many-body Rydberg atomic system

DS Ding, ZK Liu, BS Shi, GC Guo, K Mølmer… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Interacting many-body systems display enhanced sensitivity close to critical transition points
due to diverging quantum fluctuations. This criticality-based enhancement has been …

Nanophotonics of microcavity exciton–polaritons

S Luo, H Zhou, L Zhang, Z Chen - Applied Physics Reviews, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The past 30 years have witnessed remarkable developments of microcavity exciton–
polaritons, which have made a great impact on photonics and optoelectronics from …

Exceptional precision of a nonlinear optical sensor at a square-root singularity

KJH Peters, SRK Rodriguez - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Exceptional points (EPs)—spectral singularities of non-Hermitian linear systems—have
recently attracted interest for sensing. While initial proposals and experiments focused on …

Optical bistability and multistability with coupled quantum wells in the presence of second-and third-order nonlinearities

H Jabri, H Eleuch - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, we explore the intriguing phenomena of bistability and multistability in a cavity
comprising two coupled quantum wells via electron tunneling. The cavity is driven by …

Universal scaling in the dynamic hysteresis, and non-Markovian dynamics, of a tunable optical cavity

Z Geng, KJH Peters, AAP Trichet, K Malmir… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We investigate, experimentally and theoretically, the dynamics of a laser-driven cavity with
noninstantaneous effective photon-photon interactions. Scanning the laser-cavity frequency …

Persistent self-induced larmor precession evidenced through periodic revivals of coherence

H Sigurdsson, I Gnusov, S Alyatkin, L Pickup… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Interferometric measurements of an optically trapped exciton-polariton condensate reveal a
regime where the condensate pseudo-spin precesses persistently within the driving optical …

Non-Hermitian spectrum and multistability in exciton-polariton condensates

ZF Yu, JK Xue, L Zhuang, J Zhao, WM Liu - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We investigate non-Hermitian spectrum and multistability of exciton-polariton condensates
excited by a nonresonant pump. An increase in pum** power moves the system away …

Polaromechanics: polaritonics meets optomechanics

PV Santos, A Fainstein - Optical Materials Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Cavity exciton polariton physics and cavity optomechanics have evolved into mature and
active domains with, so far, very little connections between them. We argue here that there …

All-optical quantum fluid spin beam splitter

A Askitopoulos, AV Nalitov, ES Sedov, L Pickup… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We investigate the spin behavior of the first excited state of a polariton condensate in an
optical trap by means of polarization resolved spectroscopy. The interplay between the …

Graphene Tamm plasmon-induced low-threshold optical bistability at terahertz frequencies

L Jiang, J Tang, J Xu, Z Zheng, J Dong, J Guo… - Optical Materials …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, the low-threshold optical bistability (OB) of a reflected light beam at terahertz
frequencies is achieved by using a multilayer structure where monolayer graphene is coated …