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most citedExcitonic Mott insulator in a Bose-Fermi-Hubbard system of moiré / heterobilayer

52 citations · 129 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Optical observation of interlayer spin correlation

Akiyoshi Park, Pranshoo Upadhyay, Andrey Grankin +16

Spin correlations govern numerous collective behaviors of quantum materials, underpinning exotic phenomena such as unconventional superconductivity and topological magnetism. In la…

quant-ph2026

Full-Stack High-Volume Quantum Networking Architecture based on Photonic-Integrated Tin Vacancy Centers in Diamond

Hamza Raniwala, Ian Christen, Helaman Flores +11

Solid state quantum emitters are a leading platform for photonic quantum networking with memory nodes. However, the inhomogeneous distribution of quantum emitters, as well as sever…

physics.optics2026

Single-Shot Realization of 10000-Mode Octave-Spanning Artificial Gauge Fields

Lida Xu, Apurva Padhye, Supratik Sarkar +6

Artificial gauge fields (AGFs) enable photons and other bosons to emulate fermionic phenomena such as chiral edge transport and quantum Hall phases; however, existing theories and…

physics.optics2026

18-dB on-chip vacuum squeezing in an adaptively poled lithium niobate waveguide

Tushar Sanjay Karnik, Xinyi Ren, Chun-Ho Lee +16

Quantum squeezed states of light can enhance measurement sensitivity beyond classical limits and enable quantum information processing, but scalable low-loss sources remain challen…

physics.optics2026

Visible Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography for Photonic Integrated Circuits Characterization

Yin Min Goh, Chao Li, Yunchan Hwang +4

Visible photonic integrated circuits underpin applications ranging from AR/VR to quantum control, yet lack a high-resolution, nondestructive diagnostic comparable to the optical fr…

quant-ph2025

Programmable Quantum Photonic Interfaces for Quantum Networking

Siavash Mirzaei-Ghormish, Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad, Helaman Flores +2

Quantum networks require interfaces translating memory photons to telecom wavelengths while controlling spatial modes; tasks performed by separate components today. We present a pr…

quant-ph2025

Broadband Spatio-Spectral Mode Conversion via Four-Wave Mixing

Helaman Flores, Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad, Siavash Mirzaei-Ghormish +2

We introduce a framework for scalable and broadband free-space phase-matched four-wave mixing in ring resonators. This method for four-wave mixing reduces the complexity of couplin…

physics.optics2025

Quantum Metamorphosis: Programmable Emergence and the Breakdown of Bulk-Edge Dichotomy in Multiscale Systems

Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad, Alireza Parhizkar, Lida Xu +6

Multiscale synergy -- the interplay of a system's distinct characteristic length, time, and energy scales -- is becoming a unifying thread across many contemporary branches of scie…

physics.optics2025

Breaking On/Off-coupling Loss Degeneracies via Bidirectional Nonlinear Optics

Bo-Han Wu, Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad, Mengjie Yu +1

Accurate evaluation of nonlinear photonic integrated circuits requires separating input and output coupling efficiencies (i.e., and ), yet the conventional linear-transm…

physics.optics2025★ 9 cited

Multi-timescale frequency-phase matching for high-yield nonlinear photonics

Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad, Lida Xu, Gregory Moille +9

Integrated nonlinear photonic technologies, even with state-of-the-art fabrication with only a few nanometer geometry variations, face significant challenges in achieving wafer-sca…

quant-ph2025

Quantum simulation of interacting bosons with propagating waveguide photons

Xinyuan Zheng, Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad, Avik Dutt +2

Optical networks composed of interconnected waveguides are a versatile platform to simulate bosonic physical phenomena. Significant work in the non-interacting regime has demonstra…

eess.SP2025

Microring Perceptron Sensing for Low-Power Radio-Frequency Detection with Quantum-Compatible Photonic Preprocessing

Bo-Han Wu, Shi-Yuan Ma, Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad +4

Radio-frequency (RF) sensing underpins applications ranging from radar and wireless communication to biomedical and quantum measurement, where detection sensitivity at low signal-t…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 1 cited

Probing Quantum Anomalous Hall States in Twisted Bilayer WSe2 via Attractive Polaron Spectroscopy

Beini Gao, Mahdi Ghafariasl, Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad +15

Moiré superlattices in semiconductors exhibit a rich variety of interaction-induced topological states, including quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effects. A recent study hinted that t…

physics.optics2025★ 7 cited

On-chip multi-timescale spatiotemporal optical synchronization

Lida Xu, Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad, Christopher J. Flower +7

Mode-locking mechanisms are key resources in nonlinear optical phenomena, such as micro-ring solitonic states, and have transformed metrology, precision spectroscopy, and optical c…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 2 cited

Giant enhancement of exciton diffusion near an electronic Mott insulator

Pranshoo Upadhyay, Daniel G. Suárez-Forero, Tsung-Sheng Huang +9

Bose-Fermi mixtures naturally appear in various physical systems. In semiconductor heterostructures, such mixtures can be realized, with bosons as excitons and fermions as dopant c…

physics.optics2024

Nonlinear Quantum Optics at a Topological Interface Enabled by Defect Engineering

L. Hallacy, N. J. Martin, M. Jalali Mehrabad +11

The integration of topology into photonics has generated a new design framework for constructing robust and unidirectional waveguides, which are not feasible with traditional photo…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 1 cited

Sub-wavelength optical lattice in 2D materials

Supratik Sarkar, Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad, Daniel G. Suárez-Forero +9

Recently, light-matter interaction has been vastly expanded as a control tool for inducing and enhancing many emergent non-equilibrium phenomena. However, conventional schemes for…

physics.optics2024

Dynamic control of 2D non-Hermitian photonic corner states in synthetic dimensions

Xinyuan Zheng, Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad, Jonathan Vannucci +5

Non-Hermitian models describe the physics of ubiquitous open systems with gain and loss. One intriguing aspect of non-Hermitian models is their inherent topology that can produce i…

physics.optics2023★ 1 cited

Topological and conventional nano-photonic waveguides for directional integrated quantum optics

N. J Martin, M. Jalali Mehrabad, X. Chen +12

Chirality in integrated quantum photonics has emerged as a promising route towards achieving scalable quantum technologies with quantum nonlinearity effects. Topological photonic w…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 52 cited

Excitonic Mott insulator in a Bose-Fermi-Hubbard system of moiré / heterobilayer

Beini Gao, Daniel G. Suárez-Forero, Supratik Sarkar +13

Understanding the Hubbard model is crucial for investigating various quantum many-body states and its fermionic and bosonic versions have been largely realized separately. Recently…

physics.optics2022★ 14 cited

Topological Edge Mode Tapering

Christopher J. Flower, Sabyasachi Barik, Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad +3

Mode tapering, or the gradual manipulation of the size of some mode, is a requirement for any system that aims to efficiently interface two or more subsystems of different mode siz…

physics.optics2021★ 42 cited

A chiral topological add-drop filter for integrated quantum photonic circuits

M. Jalali Mehrabad, A. P. Foster, N. J. Martin +5

The integration of quantum emitters within topological nano-photonic devices opens up new avenues for the control of light-matter interactions at the single photon level. Here, we…