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20152025
most citedThe next generation of analogue gravity experiments

64 citations · 428 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

gr-qc2025

Acoustic horizons and the Hawking effect in polariton fluids of light

Elisabeth Giacobino, Maxime J. Jacquet

These lecture notes develop polariton fluids of light as programmable simulators of quantum fields on tailored curved spacetimes, with emphasis on acoustic horizons and the Hawking…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025

Momentum correlations of the Hawking effect in a quantum fluid

Marcos Gil de Olivera, Malo Joly, Antonio Z. Khoury +2

The Hawking effect -- the amplification of fluctuations at the horizon -- has been detected in quantum fluids through real-space density correlations. However, real-space observabl…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Stimulated Hawking effect and quasinormal mode resonance in a polariton simulator of field theory on curved spacetime

Mattheus Burkhard, Malte Kroj, Kévin Falque +3

The Hawking effect amplifies fluctuations in the vicinity of horizons, both in black holes and in analogue platforms. Here, we consider a polariton simulator and numerically examin…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025★ 5 cited

Multiply quantized vortex spectroscopy in a quantum fluid of light

Killian Guerrero, Kevin Falque, Elisabeth Giacobino +2

The formation of quantized vortices is a unifying feature of quantum mechanical systems, making it a premier means for fundamental and comparative studies of different quantum flui…

cond-mat.quant-gas2023★ 15 cited

Polariton Fluids as Quantum Field Theory Simulators on Tailored Curved Spacetimes

Kévin Falque, Adrià Delhom, Quentin Glorieux +3

Quantum fields in curved spacetime exhibit a wealth of effects like Hawking radiation from black holes. While quantum field theory in black holes can only be studied theoretically,…

cond-mat.quant-gas2023★ 1 cited

Observation of the diffusive Nambu-Goldstone mode of a non-equilibrium phase transition

Ferdinand Claude, Maxime J. Jacquet, Michiel Wouters +4

Second-order phase transitions are governed by spontaneous symmetry breaking, which yield collective excitations with a gapless spectrum called Nambu-Goldstone (NG) modes. While NG…

gr-qc2023★ 19 cited

Entanglement from superradiance and rotating quantum fluids of light

Adrià Delhom, Killian Guerrero, Paula Calizaya +5

The amplification of radiation by superradiance is a universal phenomenon observed in numerous physical systems. We demonstrate that superradiant scattering generates entanglement…

physics.med-ph2023★ 19 cited

A high sensitivity Cherenkov detector for Prompt Gamma Timing and Time Imaging

Maxime Jacquet, Saba Ansari, Marie-Laure Gallin-Martel +13

We recently proposed a new approach for the real-time monitoring of particle therapy treatments with the goal of achieving high sensitivities on the particle range measurement alre…

physics.hist-ph2022★ 30 cited

Analogue gravity and the Hawking effect: historical perspective and literature review

Carla R Almeida, Maxime J Jacquet

Reasoning by analogies permeates theoretical developments in physics and astrophysics, motivated by the unreachable nature of many phenomena at play. For example, analogies have be…

cond-mat.quant-gas2022★ 18 cited

Spectrum of collective excitations of a quantum fluid of polaritons

Ferdinand Claude, Maxime J. Jacquet, Iacopo Carusotto +3

We use a recently developed high-resolution coherent probe spectroscopy method to investigate the dispersion of collective excitations of a polaritonic quantum fluid. We measure th…

quant-ph2022★ 3 cited

Analogue quantum simulation of the Hawking effect in a polariton superfluid

Maxime J. Jacquet, Malo Joly, Luca Giacomelli +5

Quantum effects of fields on curved spacetimes may be studied in the laboratory thanks to quantum fluids. Here we use a polariton fluid to study the Hawking effect, the correlated…

cond-mat.quant-gas2021★ 38 cited

High-resolution coherent probe spectroscopy of a polariton quantum fluid

Ferdinand Claude, Maxime J Jacquet, Romain Usciati +4

Characterising elementary excitations in quantum fluids is essential to study collective effects within. We present an original angle-resolved coherent probe spectroscopy technique…

gr-qc2021★ 35 cited

Quantum vacuum excitation of a quasi-normal mode in an analog model of black hole spacetime

Maxime J Jacquet, Luca Giacomelli, Quentin Valnais +6

Vacuum quantum fluctuations near horizons are known to yield correlated emission by the Hawking effect. We use a driven-dissipative quantum fluid of microcavity polaritons as an an…

quant-ph2021★ 16 cited

Enhanced Photonic Maxwell's Demon with Correlated Baths

Guilherme L. Zanin, Michael Antesberger, Maxime J. Jacquet +3

Maxwell's Demon is at the heart of the interrelation between quantum information processing and thermodynamics. In this thought experiment, a demon generates a temperature gradient…

physics.med-ph2020★ 28 cited

A Time-Of-Flight-Based Reconstruction for Real-Time Prompt-Gamma Imaging in Protontherapy

Maxime Jacquet, Sara Marcatili, Marie-Laure Gallin-Martel +11

We are currently conceiving, through (MC) simulation, a multi-channel gamma detector array (TIARA for Time-of-flight Imaging ARrAy) for the online monitoring of protontherapy treat…

quant-ph2020★ 21 cited

Fiber-compatible photonic feed-forward with 99% fidelity

G. L. Zanin, M. J. Jacquet, M. Spagnolo +4

Both photonic quantum computation and the establishment of a quantum internet require fiber-based measurement and feed-forward in order to be compatible with existing infrastructur…

gr-qc2020★ 64 cited

The next generation of analogue gravity experiments

Maxime J Jacquet, Silke Weinfurtner, Friedrich Koenig

This article is an introduction for a theme issue following a Scientific Discussion Meeting on \emph{The next generation of analogue gravity experiments} held at the Royal Society…

cond-mat.quant-gas2020

Microcavity Polaritons for Quantum simulation

Thomas Boulier, Maxime J. Jacquet, Anne Maître +8

Quantum simulations are one of the pillars of quantum technologies. These simulations provide insight in fields as varied as high energy physics, many-body physics, or cosmology to…

cond-mat.quant-gas2020★ 46 cited

Polariton fluids for analogue gravity physics

M. J. Jacquet, T. Boulier, F. Claude +8

Analogue gravity enables the study of fields on curved spacetimes in the laboratory. There are numerous experimental platforms in which amplification at the event horizon or the er…

physics.med-ph2020★ 2 cited

A 100 ps TOF Detection System for On-Line Range- Monitoring in Hadrontherapy

Sara Marcatili, Sébastien Curtoni, Denis Dauvergne +11

The accuracy of hadrontherapy treatment is currently limited by ion-range uncertainties. In order to fully exploit the potential of this technique, we propose the development of a…

gr-qc2020★ 20 cited

The influence of spacetime curvature on quantum emission in optical analogues to gravity

Maxime J Jacquet, Friedrich Koenig

Quantum fluctuations on curved spacetimes cause the emission of pairs of particles from the quantum vacuum, as in the Hawking effect from black holes. We use an optical analogue to…

quant-ph2019★ 17 cited

Analytical description of quantum emission in optical analogues to gravity

Maxime J Jacquet, Friedrich Koenig

We consider a moving refractive index perturbation in an optical medium as an optical analogue to waves under the influence of gravity. We describe the dielectric medium by the Lag…

quant-ph2017

Analytical description of spontaneous emission of light at the optical event horizon

Maxime J Jacquet, Friedrich König

Quantum fluctuations in curved space-time cause the emission of particles. In order to understand how they may be detected in a laboratory experiment, we consider a moving refracti…

quant-ph2015★ 29 cited

Quantum vacuum emission from a refractive index front

Maxime Jacquet, Friedrich Koenig

A moving boundary separating two otherwise homogeneous regions of a dielectric is known to emit radiation from the quantum vacuum. An analytical framework based on the Hopfield mod…