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Molecular triplets and other metastable states for excitonic quantum batteries
Daniel Tibben, Gian Marcello Andolina, Daniel E. Gómez +1
Excitonic quantum batteries, based on organic fluorescent molecules embedded in optical microcavities, offer a room-temperature platform for studying collective effects in energy s…
Interplay between photon condensation and electron-electron interactions in molecular systems
Matteo Parisi, Elisabetta Paladino, Giuseppe A. Falci +4
We investigate a minimal molecular model consisting of square planar plaquettes hosting multiple electrons, whose dynamics is governed by a tight-binding Hamiltonian supplemented b…
Electrostatics-induced breakdown of the integer quantum Hall effect in cavity QED
Gian Marcello Andolina, Zeno Bacciconi, Alberto Nardin +3
We address the prevailing theoretical explanation of the recently observed breakdown of the integer quantum Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron gas embedded in a metallic spl…
Plasmonic metamaterial time crystal
Tingwen Guo, Jules Sueiro, Gian Marcello Andolina +18
Periodically driven optical materials and metamaterials have recently emerged as a promising platform for realizing photonic time crystals (PTCs), which are systems whose optical p…
Floquet Theory of lattice electrons coupled to an off-resonant cavity
Jules Sueiro, Gian Marcello Andolina, Marco Schirò
We use Floquet theory and the High-Frequency expansion to derive an effective Hamiltonian for electrons coupled to an off resonant cavity mode, either in its vacuum or driven by cl…
Deep quantum Monte Carlo approach for polaritonic chemistry
Yifan Tang, Gian Marcello Andolina, Alica Cuzzocrea +5
Recent years have witnessed a surge of experimental and theoretical interest in controlling the properties of matter, such as its chemical reactivity, by confining it in optical ca…
Quantum Electrodynamics of graphene Landau levels in a deep-subwavelength hyperbolic phonon polariton cavity
Gian Marcello Andolina, Matteo Ceccanti, Bianca Turini +4
The confinement of electromagnetic radiation within extremely small volumes offers an effective means to significantly enhance light-matter interactions, to the extent that zero-po…
Reply to the comment on "High-Power Collective Charging of a Solid-State Quantum Battery" by Haowei Xu and Ju Li
D. Ferraro, M. Campisi, G. M. Andolina +2
In this short communication we reply to the comment by Xu and Li (arXiv:2411.04132) on our first work on Dicke quantum batteries (Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 117702 (2018)).
Many-body enhancement of energy storage in a waveguide-QED quantum battery
Salvatore Tirone, Gian Marcello Andolina, Giuseppe Calajò +2
Quantum batteries have demonstrated remarkable charging properties, showing that a quantum advantage is possible in the realm of quantum thermodynamics. However, finding an effecti…
Genuine quantum advantage in non-linear bosonic quantum batteries
Gian Marcello Andolina, Vittoria Stanzione, Vittorio Giovannetti +1
Finding a quantum battery model that displays a genuine quantum advantage, while being prone to experimental fabrication, is an extremely challenging task. In this Letter we propos…
Dicke superradiant enhancement of the heat current in circuit QED
Gian Marcello Andolina, Paolo Andrea Erdman, Frank Noé +2
Collective effects, such as Dicke superradiant emission, can enhance the performance of a quantum device. Here, we study the heat current flowing between a cold and a hot bath thro…
Light-matter interactions in the vacuum of ultra-strongly coupled systems
Daniele De Bernardis, Gian Marcello Andolina, Iacopo Carusotto
We theoretically study how the peculiar properties of the vacuum state of an ultra-strongly coupled system can affect basic light-matter interaction processes. In this unconvention…
Valley-hybridized gate-tunable 1D exciton confinement in MoSe2
Maximilian Heithoff, Álvaro Moreno, Iacopo Torre +14
Controlling excitons at the nanoscale in semiconductor materials represents a formidable challenge in the fields of quantum photonics and optoelectronics. Achieving this control ho…
Deep Subwavelength Topological Edge State in a Hyperbolic Medium
Lorenzo Orsini, Hanan Herzig Sheinfux, Yandong Li +9
Topological nanophotonics presents the potential for cutting-edge photonic systems, with a core aim revolving around the emergence of topological edge states. These states are prim…
Topological protection of Majorana polaritons in a cavity
Zeno Bacciconi, Gian Marcello Andolina, Christophe Mora
Cavity embedding is an emerging paradigm for the control of quantum matter, offering avenues to manipulate electronic states and potentially drive topological phase transitions. In…
The maximum refractive index of an atomic crystal $\unicode{x2013}$ from quantum optics to quantum chemistry
Francesco Andreoli, Bennet Windt, Stefano Grava +4
All known optical materials have an index of refraction of order unity. Despite the tremendous implications that an ultrahigh index could have for optical technologies, little rese…
Off-resonant Dicke Quantum Battery: Charging by Virtual Photons
Giulia Gemme, Gian Marcello Andolina, Francesco Maria Dimitri Pellegrino +2
We investigate a Dicke quantum battery in the dispersive regime, where the photons trapped into a resonant cavity are way more energetic with respect to the two-level systems embed…
Photon condensation, Van Vleck paramagnetism, and chiral cavities
Alberto Mercurio, Gian Marcello Andolina, Francesco M. D. Pellegrino +6
We introduce a gauge-invariant model of planar, square molecules coupled to a quantized spatially-varying cavity electromagnetic vector potential A(r). Specifically, we choose a te…
First-order photon condensation in magnetic cavities: A two-leg ladder model
Zeno Bacciconi, Gian Marcello Andolina, Titas Chanda +3
We consider a model of free fermions in a ladder geometry coupled to a nonuniform cavity mode via Peierls substitution. Since the cavity mode generates a magnetic field, no-go theo…
Reinforcement learning optimization of the charging of a Dicke quantum battery
Paolo Andrea Erdman, Gian Marcello Andolina, Vittorio Giovannetti +1
Quantum batteries are energy-storing devices, governed by quantum mechanics, that promise high charging performance thanks to collective effects. Due to its experimental feasibilit…
Optimal Control Methods for Quantum Batteries
Francesco Mazzoncini, Vasco Cavina, Gian Marcello Andolina +2
We investigate the optimal charging processes for several models of quantum batteries, finding how to maximize the energy stored in a given battery with a finite-time modulation of…
Amperean superconductivity cannot be induced by deep subwavelength cavities in a two-dimensional material
Gian Marcello Andolina, Antonella De Pasquale, Francesco Maria Dimitri Pellegrino +3
Amperean superconductivity is an exotic phenomenon stemming from attractive effective electron-electron interactions (EEEIs) mediated by a transverse gauge field. Originally introd…
A non-perturbative no-go theorem for photon condensation in approximate models
G. M. Andolina, F. M. D. Pellegrino, A. Mercurio +3
Equilibrium phase transitions between a normal and a photon condensate state (also known as superradiant phase transitions) are a highly debated research topic, where proposals for…
Theory of Photon Condensation in a Spatially-Varying Electromagnetic Field
G. M. Andolina, F. M. D. Pellegrino, V. Giovannetti +2
The realization of equilibrium superradiant quantum phases (photon condensates) in a spatially-uniform quantum cavity field is forbidden by a "no-go" theorem stemming from gauge in…