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20162026
most citedProbing a dissipative phase transition via dynamical optical hysteresis

223 citations · 521 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026★ 1 cited

Spin-momentum locking of polariton edge states in honeycomb lattices

Andrea Herrero Otermin, Nicola Carlon Zambon, Dheerendra Singh +10

Transverse-electric/Transverse-magnetic splitting in dielectric-mirror microcavities introduces an effective spin-orbit coupling for photons. While the bulk states remain linearly…

quant-ph2026

Shot-to-shot noise cancellation for parametric oscillators

Martynas Skrabulis, Martin Colombano Sosa, Nicola Carlon Zambon +4

Powerful approaches to squeeze the motional state of a harmonic oscillator rely on the stepwise modulation of its resonance frequency. Such protocols can be limited by forces that…

quant-ph2026★ 1 cited

Nanomechanical sensor resolving impulsive forces below its zero-point fluctuations

Martynas Skrabulis, Martin Colombano Sosa, Nicola Carlon Zambon +4

The sensitivity of a mechanical transducer is ultimately limited by its inherent quantum fluctuations. Here, we use an optically levitated nanoparticle to measure impulsive forces…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Trap-to-trap free falls with an optically levitated nanoparticle

M. Luisa Mattana, Nicola Carlon Zambon, Massimiliano Rossi +4

We perform free-fall experiments with a charge-neutral, optically levitated nanoparticle. This is achieved using an optical tweezer that can be rapidly toggled on and off and verti…

quant-ph2024★ 6 cited

Motional entanglement of remote optically levitated nanoparticles

Nicola Carlon Zambon, Massimiliano Rossi, Martin Frimmer +4

We show how to entangle the motion of optically levitated nanoparticles in distant optical tweezers. The scheme consists in coupling the inelastically scattered light of each parti…

quant-ph2024

Quantum Delocalization of a Levitated Nanoparticle

Massimiliano Rossi, Andrei Militaru, Nicola Carlon Zambon +4

Every massive particle behaves like a wave, according to quantum physics. Yet, this characteristic wave nature has only been observed in double-slit experiments with microscopic sy…

quant-ph2022

Enhanced Cavity Optomechanics with Quantum-well Exciton Polaritons

Nicola Carlon Zambon, Zakari Denis, Romain De Oliveira +4

Semiconductor microresonators embedding quantum wells can host tightly confined and mutually interacting excitonic, optical and mechanical modes at once. We theoretically investiga…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 20 cited

Chiral emission induced by optical Zeeman effect in polariton micropillars

B. Real, N. Carlon Zambon, P. St-Jean +7

The low sensitivity of photons to external magnetic fields is one of the major challenges for the engineering of photonic lattices with broken time-reversal symmetry. Here we show…

physics.optics2021★ 30 cited

Few-photon all-optical phase rotation in a quantum-well micropillar cavity

Tintu Kuriakose, Paul M. Walker, Toby Dowling +13

Photonic platforms are an excellent setting for quantum technologies because weak photon-environment coupling ensures long coherence times. The second key ingredient for quantum ph…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 32 cited

Parametric instability in coupled nonlinear microcavities

N. Carlon Zambon, S. R. K. Rodriguez, A. Lemaitre +7

We report the observation of a parametric instability in the out-of-equilibrium steady state of two coupled Kerr microresonators coherently driven by a laser. Using a resonant exci…

physics.optics2018★ 9 cited

Orbital angular momentum bistability in a microlaser

Nicola Carlon Zambon, Philippe St-Jean, Aristide Lemaître +6

Light's orbital angular momentum (OAM) is an unbounded degree of freedom emerging in helical beams that appears very advantageous technologically. Using a chiral microlaser, i.e. a…

physics.optics2018★ 22 cited

Non-reciprocity and zero reflection in nonlinear cavities with tailored loss

S. R. K. Rodriguez, V. Goblot, N. Carlon Zambon +2

We demonstrate how to tailor the losses of nonlinear cavities in order to suppress their reflection and enhance their non-reciprocal transmission. We derive analytical expressions…

physics.optics2018★ 176 cited

Optically controlling the emission chirality of microlasers

Nicola Carlon Zambon, Philippe St-Jean, Marijana Milićević +10

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) carried by helical light beams is an unbounded degree of freedom of photons that offers a promising playground in modern photonics. So far, integrate…

physics.optics2016★ 223 cited

Probing a dissipative phase transition via dynamical optical hysteresis

S. R. K. Rodriguez, W. Casteels, F. Storme +8

We experimentally explore the dynamic optical hysteresis of a semiconductor microcavity as a function of the sweep time. The hysteresis area exhibits a double power law decay due t…