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Three-observable measurement of the critical velocity in a paraxial superfluid of light flowing past a mobile impurity
T. Aladjidi, M. Baker-Rasooli, T. D. Ferreira +4
We report the measurement of the critical velocity of a paraxial superfluid of light flowing past a mobile impurity, realized using a dual-wavelength optical scheme in a warm vapor…
Swimming against a superfluid flow: Self-propulsion via vortex-antivortex shedding in a quantum fluid of light
Myrann Baker-Rasooli, Tangui Aladjidi, Tiago D. Ferreira +4
A superfluid flows without friction below a critical velocity, exhibiting zero drag force on impurities. Above this threshold, superfluidity breaks down, and the internal energy is…
Measuring the group velocity dispersion in near resonant hot atomic vapors
Alix Merolle, Quentin Glorieux
Group velocity dispersion (GVD) in near-resonant hot atomic vapors is difficult to measure with standard pulse broadening or interferometric techniques, as absorption, pulse distor…
Vortex leapfrogging and superfluid dissipation mechanisms in a fluid of light
Myrann Baker-Rasooli, Nathan du Toit, Nicolas Pavloff +1
We report the experimental observation of vortex leapfrogging in a two-dimensional fluid of light. By imprinting two vortex-antivortex pairs and tracking their real-time evolution…
Machine learning approach to single-shot multiparameter estimation for the non-linear Schrödinger equation
Louis Rossignol, Tangui Aladjidi, Myrann Baker-Rasooli +1
The nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) is a fundamental model for wave dynamics in nonlinear media ranging from optical fibers to Bose-Einstein condensates. Accurately estimatin…
Paraxial fluids of light
Quentin Glorieux, Clara Piekarski, Quentin Schibler +2
Paraxial fluids of light are a promising platform for exploring collective phenomena in a highly tunable environment. These systems, which map the propagation of light through nonl…
Observation of Jones-Roberts solitons in a paraxial quantum fluid of light
Myrann Baker-Rasooli, Tangui Aladjidi, Nils A. Krause +2
We investigate the formation and dynamics of Jones-Roberts solitons in a smoothly inhomogeneous quantum fluid. To do so, we create a superfluid of light using paraxial, near-resona…
Spin and Density Modes in a Binary Fluid of Light
Clara Piekarski, Nicolas Cherroret, Tangui Aladjidi +1
We present the experimental observation of spin and density modes in a binary mixture of superfluids of light. A miscible Bose-Bose mixture with repulsive interactions is obtained…
Room-temperature efficient single-photon generation from CdSe/ZnS nanoplateletes
M. D'Amato, Ningyuan Fu, Quentin Glorieux +5
In the search for materials for quantum information science applications, colloidal semiconductor nanoplatelets (NPLs) have emerged as a highly promising new class of materials due…
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,…
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…
Highly photostable Zn-treated halide perovskite nanocrystals for efficient single photon generation
Marianna D'Amato, Lucien Belzane, Corentin Dabard +6
Achieving pure single-photon emission is essential for a range of quantum technologies, from optical quantum computing to quantum key distribution to quantum metrology. Among solid…
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…
Turbulent dynamics in two-dimensional paraxial fluid of light
Myrann Baker-Rasooli, Wei Liu, Tangui Aladjidi +2
Turbulence in quantum fluids has, surprisingly, a lot in common with its classical counterpart. Recently, cold atomic gases has emerged as a well controlled experimental platform t…
Hot atomic vapors for nonlinear and quantum optics
Quentin Glorieux, Tangui Aladjidi, Paul D Lett +1
Nonlinear optics has been a very dynamic field of research with spectacular phenomena discovered mainly after the invention of lasers. The combination of high intensity fields with…
Color-Tunable Mixed-Cation Perovskite Single Photon Emitters
Marianna D'Amato, Qi Ying Tan, Quentin Glorieux +2
Quantum photonics technologies like wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) for high-rate quantum key distribution require narrowband, spectrally tunable single photon emitters. Phy…
Non-equilibrium pre-thermal states in a two-dimensional photon fluid
Murad Abuzarli, Nicolas Cherroret, Tom Bienaimé +1
Thermalization is the dynamical process by which a many-body system evolves toward a thermal equilibrium state that maximizes its entropy. In certain cases, however, the establishm…
Transit effects for non-linear index measurement in hot atomic vapors
Tangui Aladjidi, Murad Abuzarli, Guillaume Brochier +4
Hot atomic vapors are widely used in non-linear and quantum optics due to their large Kerr non-linearity. While the linear refractive index and the transmission are precisely measu…
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…
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…
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…
Dissipative phase transition with driving-controlled spatial dimension and diffusive boundary conditions
Z. Li, F. Claude, T. Boulier +4
We investigate theoretically and experimentally a first-order dissipative phase transition, with diffusive boundary conditions and the ability to tune the spatial dimension of the…
Dissipation-enhanced collapse singularity of a nonlocal fluid of light in a hot atomic vapor
Pierre Azam, Adrien Fusaro, Quentin Fontaine +6
We study the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of a two-dimensional paraxial fluid of light using a near-resonant laser propagating through a hot atomic vapor. We observe a double shock-…
Analogue cosmological particle creation in an ultracold quantum fluid of light
Jeff Steinhauer, Murad Abuzarli, Tangui Aladjidi +6
In inflationary cosmology, the rapid expansion of the early universe resulted in the spontaneous production of cosmological particles from vacuum fluctuations, observable today in…