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20172026
most citedOptical control of synchronous phases in a programmable polariton cell

66 citations · 329 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

physics.optics2026★ 2 cited

Thresholdless corner vortex solitons in fractal Sierpiński topological insulators

Yiqi Zhang, Alexander V. Kireev, Victor O. Kompanets +12

Quantized vortices are ubiquitous in physics, spanning superconductivity, astrophysics, superfluid condensed matter systems, and nonlinear optics. Yet embedding vorticity into topo…

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Observation of an aperiodic polariton monotile

Sergey Alyatkin, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Kirill Sitnik +2

A plethora of unconventional localization phenomena and fractal features of linear spectrum observed in quasiperiodic structures have been accompanied by a long-standing quest for…

physics.optics2026

Coherence Revivals and Lifetime Extension of Polariton Condensates by Mirror-Mediated Self-Feedback

I. Smirnov, S. Alyatkin, P. G. Lagoudakis

Temporal coherence of driven-dissipative condensates is limited by phase noise. We show that mirror-mediated time-delayed self-feedback enables control of coherence in a trapped ex…

physics.optics2026★ 3 cited

Observation of topological vortex solitons on disclinations

A. V. Kireev, K. Sabour, V. O. Kompanets +13

Vortex-carrying wave fields play a crucial role in photonics due to unusual propagation properties and interactions with matter, which enable numerous practical applications rangin…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Single-Shot Flow Spectroscopy of a Polariton Condensate: Kibble-Zurek and Kolmogorov-Like Scaling

Ivan Krasionov, Anton Putintsev, Maksim Kolker +3

Quantized vortices are fundamental topological excitations of quantum fluids. We report single-shot interferometric measurements of spontaneous vortex nucleation in a room-temperat…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025

Tailoring the resonant spin response of a stirred polariton condensate

Ivan Gnusov, Alexey Yulin, Stepan Baryshev +2

We report on the enhancement of the spin coherence time (T2) by almost an order-of-magnitude in exciton-polariton condensates through driven spin precession resonance. Using a rota…

physics.optics2025★ 4 cited

Observation of Light Localization at the Edges of Quasicrystal Waveguide Arrays

S. K. Ivanov, S. A. Zhuravitskii, N. S. Kostyuchenko +10

Quasicrystals are unique systems that, unlike periodic structures, lack translational symmetry but exhibit long-range order dramatically enriching the system properties. While evol…

cond-mat.quant-gas2024★ 1 cited

Quantum Fluids of Light in 2D Artificial Reconfigurable Aperiodic Crystals with Tailored Coupling

Sergey Alyatkin, Kirill Sitnik, Valtýr Kári Daníelsson +4

Aperiodic crystals are the intermediates between strictly periodic crystalline matter and amorphous solids. The lack of translational symmetry combined with intrinsic long-range or…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 10 cited

Vortex clusters in a stirred polariton condensate

Ivan Gnusov, Stella Harrison, Sergey Alyatkin +3

The response of superfluids to the external rotation, evidenced by emergence of quantised vortices, distinguishes them from conventional fluids. In this work, we demonstrate that t…

physics.optics2023★ 2 cited

Optically driven spin precession in polariton condensates

Ivan Gnusov, Stepan Baryshev, Helgi Sigurðsson +4

External driving of spinor degrees of freedom by magnetic or optical fields in quantum systems underpin many applications ranging from nuclear magnetic resonance to coherent state…

cond-mat.quant-gas2022★ 60 cited

Quantum Vortex Formation in the "Rotating Bucket'' Experiment with Polariton Condensates

Ivan Gnusov, Stella Harrison, Sergey Alyatkin +4

The appearance of quantised vortices in the classical ``rotating bucket'' experiments of liquid helium and ultracold dilute gases provides the means for fundamental and comparative…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 20 cited

Antiferromagnetic Ising model in a triangular vortex lattice of quantum fluids of light

Sergey Alyatkin, Carles Milián, Yaroslav V. Kartashov +4

Vortices are topologically distinctive objects appearing as phase twists in coherent fields of optical beams and Bose-Einstein condensates. Structured networks and artificial latti…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 27 cited

Spontaneous formation of time-periodic vortex cluster in nonlinear fluids of light

Kirill A. Sitnik, Sergey Alyatkin, Julian D. Töpfer +4

We demonstrate spontaneous formation of a nonlinear vortex cluster state in a microcavity exciton-polariton condensate with time-periodic sign flipping of its topological charges a…

physics.optics2021★ 18 cited

All-optical linear polarization engineering in single and coupled exciton-polariton condensates

I. Gnusov, H. Sigurdsson, J. Toepfer +3

We demonstrate all-optical linear polarization control of exciton-polariton condensates in anisotropic elliptical optical traps. The cavity inherent TE-TM splitting lifts the groun…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 22 cited

Lotka-Volterra population dynamics in coherent and tunable oscillators of trapped polariton condensates

Julian D. Töpfer, Helgi Sigurdsson, Sergey Alyatkin +1

We demonstrate a regime in which matter-wave condensates of exciton-polaritons trapped in an elliptically shaped two-dimensional potential appear as a coherent mixture of ground an…

quant-ph2020★ 12 cited

Solving the max-3-cut problem using synchronized dissipative networks

Stella L. Harrison, Helgi Sigurdsson, Sergey Alyatkin +2

Many computational problems are intractable through classical computing and, as Moore's law is drawing to a halt, demand for finding alternative methods in tackling these problems…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 42 cited

Quantum fluids of light in all-optical scatterer lattices

Sergey Alyatkin, Helgi Sigurdsson, Alexis Askitopoulos +2

One of the recently established paradigms in condensed matter physics is examining a system's behaviour in artificially constructed potentials, giving insight into physical phenome…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020

Coherence Revivals of a Spinor Polariton Condensate from Self-induced Larmor Precession

Alexis Askitopoulos, Helgi Sigurdsson, Ivan Gnusov +4

First order coherence measurements of a polariton condensate, reveal a regime where the condensate pseudo-spin precesses persistently within the driving optical pulse. Within a sin…

cond-mat.quant-gas2019★ 7 cited

Giant increase of temporal coherence in optically trapped polariton condensate

Alexis Askitopoulos, Lucy Pickup, Sergey Alyatkin +4

Coherent bosonic ensembles offer the promise of harnessing quantum effects in photonic and quantum circuits. In the dynamic equilibrium regime, the application of polariton condens…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 66 cited

Optical control of synchronous phases in a programmable polariton cell

Sergey Alyatkin, Julian D. Töpfer, Alexis Askitopoulos +2

We demonstrate deterministic control of the nearest and next-nearest neighbor coupling in the unit cell of a square lattice of microcavity exciton-polariton condensates. We tune th…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 31 cited

Geometric frustration in polygons of polariton condensates creating vortices of varying topological charge

Tamsin Cookson, Kirill Kalinin, Helgi Sigurdsson +6

Vorticity is a key ingredient to a broad variety of fluid phenomena, and its quantised version is considered to be the hallmark of superfluidity. Circulating flows that correspond…

cond-mat.other2017★ 2 cited

Simulating the spectral gap with polariton graphs

Kirill Kalinin, Pavlos G. Lagoudakis, Natalia G. Berloff

We recently proposed polariton graphs as a novel platform for solving hard optimization problems that can be mapped into the model. Here, we elucidate a relationship between t…