Publications (33)
Large-scale photonic Ising machine by spatial light modulation
D. Pierangeli, G. Marcucci, C. Conti
Quantum and classical physics can be used for mathematical computations that are hard to tackle by conventional electronics. Very recently, optical Ising machines have been demonst…
The Adiabatic Piston and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
B. Crosignani, P. Di Porto, C. Conti
A detailed analysis of the adiabatic-piston problem reveals peculiar dynamical features that challenge the general belief that isolated systems necessarily reach a static equilibri…
Tunneling mediated by conical waves in a 1D lattice
A. Di Falco, C. Conti, S. Trillo
The nonlinear propagation of 3D wave-packets in a 1D Bragg-induced band-gap system, shows that tranverse effects (free space diffraction) affect the interplay of periodicity and no…
Measurement of scaling laws for shock waves in thermal nonlocal media
N. Ghofraniha, L. Santamaria Amato, V. Folli +3
We are able to detect the details of spatial optical collisionless wave-breaking through the high aperture imaging of a beam suffering shock in a fluorescent nonlinear nonlocal the…
Shock waves in thermal lensing
S. Gentilini, N. Ghofraniha, E. DeRe +1
We review experimental investigation on spatial shock waves formed by the self-defocusing action of a laser beam propagation in a disordered thermal nonlinear media.
Optical rogue waves in spheroids of tumor cells
D. Pierangeli, G. Perini, V. Palmieri +5
Rogue waves are intense and unexpected wavepackets ubiquitous in complex systems. In optics, they are promising as robust and noise-resistant beams for probing and manipulating the…