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Fast and length-independent transport time supported by topological edge states in finite-size Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chains
Yu-Han Chang, Nadia Daniela Rivera Torres, Santiago Figueroa Manrique +9
In order to transport information with topological protection, we explore experimentally the fast transport time using edge states in one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) cha…
Optimization of a Hydrodynamic Computational Reservoir through Evolution
Alessandro Pierro, Kristine Heiney, Shamit Shrivastava +2
As demand for computational resources reaches unprecedented levels, research is expanding into the use of complex material substrates for computing. In this study, we interface wit…
A New Paradigm of Reservoir Computing Exploiting Hydrodynamics
Giulia Marcucci, Piergiorgio Caramazza, Shamit Shrivastava
Nonlinear waves have played a historical role in laying the foundations of the science of complexity. Recently, they have also allowed the development of a new reservoir computing…
From Navier-Stokes millennium-prize problem to soft matter computing
Saksham Sharma, Giulia Marcucci
Clay Mathematical Institute, in the year 2000, formulated a list of seven unsolved mathematical problems which might influence and direct the course of the research in the 21st cen…
A complexity perspective on fluid mechanics
Saksham Sharma, Giulia Marcucci, Adnan Mahmud
This article attempts to use the ideas from the field of complexity sciences to revisit the classical field of fluid mechanics. For almost a century, the mathematical self-consiste…
Beam deflection and negative drag in a moving nonlinear medium
Ryan Hogan, Akbar Safari, Giulia Marcucci +2
Light propagating in a moving medium with refractive index other than unity is subject to light drag. While the light drag effect due to the linear refractive index is often neglig…
Anomalous Optical Drag
Chitram Banerjee, Yakov Solomons, A. Nicholas Black +5
A moving dielectric medium can displace the optical path of light passing through it, a phenomenon known as the Fresnel-Fizeau optical drag effect. The resulting displacement is pr…
Photonic extreme learning machine by free-space optical propagation
Davide Pierangeli, Giulia Marcucci, Claudio Conti
Photonic brain-inspired platforms are emerging as novel analog computing devices, enabling fast and energy-efficient operations for machine learning. These artificial neural networ…
Adiabatic evolution on a spatial-photonic Ising machine
D. Pierangeli, G. Marcucci, C. Conti
Combinatorial optimization problems are crucial for widespread applications but remain difficult to solve on a large scale with conventional hardware. Novel optical platforms, know…
Noise-enhanced spatial-photonic Ising machine
Davide Pierangeli, Giulia Marcucci, Daniel Brunner +1
Ising machines are novel computing devices for the energy minimization of Ising models. These combinatorial optimization problems are of paramount importance for science and techno…
Probing topological protected transport in finite-sized Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chains
Yu-Han Chang, Nadia Daniela Rivera Torres, Santiago Figueroa Manrique +9
In order to transport information with topological protection, we reveal and demonstrate experimentally the existence of a characteristic length , coined as the transport leng…
Multidimensional topological strings by curved potentials: Simultaneous realization of mobility edge and topological protection
Chun-Yan Lin, Giulia Marcucci, Gang Wang +3
By considering a cigar-shaped trapping potential elongated in a proper curvilinear coordinate, we discover a new form of wave localization which arises from the interplay of geomet…
Theory of neuromorphic computing by waves: machine learning by rogue waves, dispersive shocks, and solitons
Giulia Marcucci, Davide Pierangeli, Claudio Conti
We study artificial neural networks with nonlinear waves as a computing reservoir. We discuss universality and the conditions to learn a dataset in terms of output channels and non…
Anisotropic Optical Shock Waves in Isotropic Media with Giant Nonlocal Nonlinearity
Giulia Marcucci, Phillip Cala, Weining Man +3
Dispersive shock waves in thermal optical media belong to the third-order nonlinear phenomena, whose intrinsic irreversibility is described by time asymmetric quantum mechanics. Re…
Topological Control of Extreme Waves
Giulia Marcucci, Davide Pierangeli, Aharon J. Agranat +3
From optics to hydrodynamics, shock and rogue waves are widespread. Although they appear as distinct phenomena, new theories state that transitions between extreme waves are allowe…
Optical Spatial Shock Waves in Nonlocal Nonlinear Media
Giulia Marcucci, Davide Pierangeli, Silvia Gentilini +3
Dispersive shock waves are fascinating phenomena occurring when nonlinearity overwhelms linear effects, such as dispersion and diffraction. Many features of shock waves are still u…
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…
Programming multi-level quantum gates in disordered computing reservoirs via machine learning and TensorFlow
Giulia Marcucci, Davide Pierangeli, Pepijn Pinkse +2
Novel machine learning computational tools open new perspectives for quantum information systems. Here we adopt the open-source programming library TensorFlow to design multi-level…
Deep optical neural network by living tumour brain cells
D. Pierangeli, V. Palmieri, G. Marcucci +5
The new era of artificial intelligence demands large-scale ultrafast hardware for machine learning. Optical artificial neural networks process classical and quantum information at…
Quantum-gravity-slingshot: orbital precession due to the modified uncertainty principle, from analogs to tests of Planckian physics with quantum fluids
Giulia Marcucci, Claudio Conti
Modified uncertainty principle and non-commutative variables may phenomenologically account for quantum gravity effects, independently of the considered theory of quantum gravity.…
Metriplectic Structure of a Radiation-Matter Interaction Toy Model
Giulia Marcucci, Claudio Conti, Massimo Materassi
A dynamical system defined by a metriplectic structure is a dissipative model characterized by a specific pair of tensors, which defines the Leibniz brackets. Generally, these tens…
Machine Learning Inverse Problem for Topological Photonics
Laura Pilozzi, Francis A. Farrelly, Giulia Marcucci +1
Topological concepts open many new horizons for photonic devices, from integrated optics to lasers. The complexity of large scale topological devices asks for an effective solution…
Sine-Gordon soliton as a model for Hawking radiation of moving black holes and quantum soliton evaporation
Leone Di Mauro Villari, Giulia Marcucci, Maria Chiara Braidotti +1
The intriguing connection between black holes' evaporation and physics of solitons is opening novel roads to finding observable phenomena. It is known from the inverse scattering t…
Irreversible Evolution of a Wave Packet in The Rigged Hilbert Space Quantum Mechanics
Giulia Marcucci, Claudio Conti
It is well known that a state with complex energy cannot be the eigenstate of a self-adjoint operator, like the Hamiltonian. Resonances, i.e. states with exponentially decaying obs…