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Metamorphoses of the flow past an obstacle of a resonantly-driven bistable polariton fluid
Vincent Hakim, Simon Pigeon, Amandine Aftalion
Motivated by recent experiments, we theoretically analyze the flow past an obstacle of a one-dimensional "quantum fluid of light" which is resonantly driven, and exhibits bistabili…
Spontaneous generation, enhanced propagation and optical imprinting of quantized vortices and dark solitons in a polariton superfluid: towards the control of quantum turbulence
Anne Maitre, Ferdinand Claude, Giovani Lerario +7
In resonantly pumped polariton superfluids we recently explored a new regime based on the bistability of the polariton system to enhance the propagation of polariton fluids up to m…
Taming the snake instabilities in a polariton superfluid
Ferdinand Claude, Sergei V. Koniakhin, Anne Maître +8
The dark solitons observed in a large variety of nonlinear media are unstable against the modulational (snake) instabilities and can break in vortex streets. This behavior has been…
Interferences between Bogoliubov excitations and their impact on the evidence of superfluidity in a paraxial fluid of light
Quentin Fontaine, Pierre-Elie Larré, Giovanni Lerario +7
Paraxial fluids of light represent an alternative platform to atomic Bose-Einstein condensates and superfluid liquids for the study of the quantum behaviour of collective excitatio…
Critical velocity in resonantly driven polariton superfluids
Simon Pigeon, Amandine Aftalion
We study the necessary condition under which a resonantly driven exciton polariton superfluid flowing against an obstacle can generate turbulence. The value of the critical velocit…
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…
Parallel dark soliton pair in a bistable 2D exciton-polariton superfluid
Giovanni Lerario, Sergei V. Koniakhin, Anne Maître +7
Collective excitations, such as vortex-antivortex and dark solitons, are among the most fascinating effects of macroscopic quantum states. However, 2D dark solitons are unstable an…
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…
Vortex stream generation and enhanced propagation in a polariton superfluid
Giovanni Lerario, Anne Maître, Rajiv Boddeda +4
In this work, we implement a new experimental configuration which exploits the specific properties of the optical bistability exhibited by the polariton system and we demonstrate t…
Dark-soliton molecules in an exciton-polariton superfluid
Anne Maître, Giovanni Lerario, Adrià Medeiros +5
The general theory of dark solitons relies on repulsive interactions and therefore predicts the impossibility to form dark-soliton bound states. One important exception to this pre…
Classical Casimir force from a quasi-condensate of light
Tamara Bardon-brun, Simon Pigeon, Nicolas Cherroret
We show that weakly incoherent optical beams propagating in a Kerr medium exhibit a universal algebraic coherence after a short propagation time, mimicking the quasi-long-range ord…
Stationary quantum vortex street in a driven-dissipative quantum fluid of light
S. V. Koniakhin, O. Bleu, D. D. Stupin +8
We investigate the formation of a new class of density-phase defects in a resonantly driven 2D quantum fluid of light. The system bistability allows the formation of low density re…
Optical nanofiber interferometer and resonator
Chengjie Ding, Vivien Loo, Simon Pigeon +6
We report the fabrication and characterization of photonic structures using tapered optical nanofibers. Thanks to the extension of the evanescent electromagnetic field outside of t…
Generating strong anti-bunching by interfering with coherent states
Rajiv Boddeda, Quentin Glorieux, Alberto Bramati +1
The second order correlation function is traditionally used to characterize the photon statistics and to distinguish between classical and quantum states of light. In this article…
Compensation of Beer-Lambert attenuation using non-diffracting Bessel beams
Quentin Fontaine, Huiqin Hu, Simon Pigeon +5
We report on a versatile method to compensate the linear attenuation in a medium, independently of its microscopic origin. The method exploits diffraction-limited Bessel beams and…
Observation of the Bogoliubov dispersion relation in a fluid of light
Q. Fontaine, T. Bienaimé, S. Pigeon +3
Quantum fluids of light are photonic counterpart to atomic Bose gases and are attracting increasing interest for probing many-body physics quantum phenomena such as superfluidity.…
Coherent merging of counter-propagating exciton-polariton superfluids
Thomas Boulier, Simon Pigeon, Emiliano Cancellieri +4
We report the formation of a macroscopic coherent state emerging from colliding polariton fluids. Four lasers with random relative phases, arranged in a square, pump resonantly a p…
Tracer particle diffusion in a system with hardcore interacting particles
Simon Pigeon, Karl Fogelmark, Bo Söderberg +2
In this study, inspired by the work of K. Nakazato and K. Kitahara [Prog. Theor. Phys. 64, 2261 (1980)], we consider the theoretical problem of tracer particle diffusion in an envi…
Full counting statistics approach to the quantum non-equilibrium Landauer bound
Giacomo Guarnieri, Steve Campbell, John Goold +3
We develop the full counting statistics of dissipated heat to explore the relation with Landauer's principle. Combining the two-time measurement protocol for the reconstruction of…
Sustained propagation and control of topological excitations in polariton superfluid
Simon Pigeon, Alberto Bramati
We present a simple method to compensate for losses in a polariton superfluid. Based on a weak support field, it allows for an extended propagation of a resonantly driven polariton…
Vibrational assisted conduction in a molecular wire
Simon Pigeon, Lorenzo Fusco, Gabriele De Chiara +1
We present a detailed study of the conduction properties of a molecular wire where hopping processes between electronic sites are coupled to a vibrational mode of the molecule. The…
Thermodynamics of trajectories of open quantum systems, step by step
Simon Pigeon, André Xuereb
Thermodynamics of trajectories promises to make possible the thorough analysis of the dynamical properties of an open quantum system, a sought-after goal in modern physics. Unfortu…
Thermodynamics of trajectories and local fluctuation theorems for harmonic quantum networks
Simon Pigeon, Lorenzo Fusco, André Xuereb +2
We present a general method to undertake a thorough analysis of the thermodynamics of the quantum jump trajectories followed by an arbitrary quantum harmonic network undergoing lin…
Thermodynamics of trajectories of a quantum harmonic oscillator coupled to baths
Simon Pigeon, Lorenzo Fusco, André Xuereb +2
We undertake a thorough analysis of the thermodynamics of the trajectories followed by a quantum harmonic oscillator coupled to dissipative baths by using a new approach to lar…