Publications de Cristiano Ciuti

Down-conversion of a single photon as a probe of many-body localization

Decay of a particle into more particles is a ubiquitous phenomenon to interacting quantum systems, taking place in colliders, nuclear reactors or solids. In a nonlinear medium, even a single photon would decay by down-converting (splitting) into lower-freq ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Quantum Critical Regime in a Quadratically Driven Nonlinear Photonic Lattice

Vincenzo Savona, Riccardo Rota, Fabrizio Minganti, Cristiano Ciuti

We study an array of coupled optical cavities in the presence of two-photon driving and dissipation. The system displays a critical behavior similar to that of a quantum Ising model at finite temperature. Using the corner-space renormalization method, we c ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Comment on "Linear Wave Dynamics Explains Observations Attributed to Dark Solitons in a Polariton Quantum Fluid"

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, Gabriele Grosso, Cristiano Ciuti

American Physical Society2015

Polariton Superfluids Reveal Quantum Hydrodynamic Solitons

Romuald Houdré, Cristiano Ciuti

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 waves form around the obstacle. For higher flow velocities, it has been predi ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2011

All-optical control of the quantum flow of a polariton condensate

Romuald Houdré, Cristiano Ciuti

Although photons in vacuum are massless particles that do not appreciably interact with each other, significant interactions appear in suitable nonlinear media, leading to hydrodynamic behaviours typical of quantum fluids(1-6). Here, we show the generation ...

Nature Publishing Group2011

Quantum fluid properties of polaritons in semiconductor microcavities

Romuald Houdré, Cristiano Ciuti

In semiconductor quantum wells embedded in a high finesse microcavity, excitons, which are bound electron-hole systems, strongly couple to photons, forming mixed quasi-particles called polaritons. Polaritons can be coherently excited by an incident laser f ...

2010

Light engineering of the polariton landscape in semiconductor microcavities

Romuald Houdré, Cristiano Ciuti

We demonstrate a method to create potential barriers with polarized light beams for polaritons in semiconductor microcavities. The form of the barriers is engineered via the real space shape of a focalized beam on the sample. Their height can be determined ...

2010

Superfluidity of polaritons in semiconductor microcavities

Romuald Houdré, Cristiano Ciuti

Superfluidity, the ability of a quantum fluid to flow without friction, is one of the most spectacular phenomena occurring in degenerate gases of interacting bosons. Since its first discovery in liquid helium-4 (refs 1, 2), superfluidity has been observed ...

Nature Publishing Group2009

Microcavity for optical telecommunication device, comprises two bragg reflectors separated by at least one semiconductor layer

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, François Morier-Genoud, Cristiano Ciuti

Microcavity comprising two reflectors, at least one semiconductor layer separating said reflectors and a semiconductor quantum well wherein at least one of said reflectors and of said at least one semiconductor layer comprises a structure which is adjusted ...

2006

Nonlinear dynamics of excitons and photons in semiconductor planar structures

Cristiano Ciuti

EPFL2001