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Stochastic precession of the polarization in a polariton laser
Vera Giulia Sala, Félix Marsault, Michiel Wouters +5
Microcavity polaritons in the lasing regime undergo a spontaneous symmetry breaking transition resulting in coherent emission with a well defined polarization. The order parameter…
Engineering spin-orbit coupling for photons and polaritons in microstructures
V. G. Sala, D. D. Solnyshkov, I. Carusotto +10
One of the most fundamental properties of electromagnetism and special relativity is the coupling between the spin of an electron and its orbital motion. This is at the origin of t…
Macroscopic quantum self-trapping and Josephson oscillations of exciton-polaritons
M. Abbarchi, A. Amo, V. G. Sala +8
A textbook example of quantum mechanical effects is the coupling of two states through a tunnel barrier. In the case of macroscopic quantum states subject to interactions, the tunn…
All-optical control of the quantum flow of a polariton superfluid
D. Sanvitto, S. Pigeon, A. Amo +12
While photons in vacuum are massless particles that do not interact with each other, significant photon-photon interactions appear in suitable nonlinear media, leading to novel hyd…
Polariton superfluids reveal quantum hydrodynamic solitons
A. Amo, S. Pigeon, D. Sanvitto +9
A quantum fluid passing an obstacle behaves differently from a classical one. When the flow is slow enough, the quantum gas enters a superfluid regime and neither whirlpools nor wa…
Hawking radiation from ultrashort laser pulse filaments
F. Belgiorno, S. L. Cacciatori, M. Clerici +6
Event horizons of astrophysical black holes and gravitational analogues have been predicted to excite the quantum vacuum and give rise to the emission of quanta, known as Hawking r…
Spacetime geometries and light trapping in travelling refractive index perturbations
F. Belgiorno, S. L. Cacciatori, V. Gorini +4
In the framework of transformation optics, we show that the propagation of a locally superluminal refractive index perturbation (RIP) in a Kerr medium can be described, in the eiko…
Quantum radiation from superluminal refractive index perturbations
F. Belgiorno, S. L. Cacciatori, G. Ortenzi +2
We analyze in detail photon production induced by a superluminal refractive index perturbation in realistic experimental operating conditions. The interaction between the refractiv…
Analogue Gravity and ultrashort laser pulse filamentation
D. Faccio, S. Cacciatori, V. Gorini +5
Ultrashort laser pulse filaments in dispersive nonlinear Kerr media induce a moving refractive index perturbation which modifies the space-time geometry as seen by co-propagating l…