Publications de Nicolas Piro Mastracchio

Geometric mixing

Mixing fluids often involves a periodic action, like stirring one's tea. But reciprocating motions in fluids at low Reynolds number, in Stokes flows where inertia is negligible, lead to periodic cycles of mixing and unmixing, because the physics, molecular ...

ROYAL SOC2020

Floquet dynamics in the quantum measurement of mechanical motion

Tobias Kippenberg, Nicolas Piro Mastracchio, Liu Qiu, Itay Shomroni, Marie Adrienne Ioannou

The radiation-pressure interaction between one or more laser fields and a mechanical oscillator gives rise to a wide range of phenomena: From sideband cooling and backaction-evading measurements to ponderomotive and mechanical squeezing to entanglement and ...

2019

Excitonic Emission of Monolayer Semiconductors Near-Field Coupled to High-Q Microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Clément Christian Javerzac-Galy, Ryan Daniel Schilling, Sina Khorasani, Nicolas Piro Mastracchio, Anshuman Kumar

We present quantum yield measurements of single layer WSe2 (1L-WSe2) integrated with high-Q (Q > 106) optical microdisk cavities, using an efficient (η > 90%) near-field coupling scheme based on a tapered optical fiber. Coupling of the excitonic emission i ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2018

Geometric phases in discrete dynamical systems

Nicolas Piro Mastracchio

In order to study the behaviour of discrete dynamical systems under adiabatic cyclic variations of their parameters, we consider discrete versions of adiabatically-rotated rotators. Parallelling the studies in continuous systems, we generalize the concept ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Geometric Mixing, Peristalsis, and the Geometric Phase of the Stomach

Nicolas Piro Mastracchio

Mixing fluid in a container at low Reynolds number-in an inertialess environment-is not a trivial task. Reciprocating motions merely lead to cycles of mixing and unmixing, so continuous rotation, as used in many technological applications, would appear to ...

Public Library Science2015

Molecular Optomechanics with Plasmons: Backaction at the nanoscale

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Tobias Kippenberg, Nicolas Piro Mastracchio

The plasmonic systems used in surface-enhanced Raman scattering are shown to be quivalent to optomechanical cavities. The new backaction force of the plasmon on the molecular vibration could lead to coherent amplification of vibrational motion. ...

OSA2015

Measurement-based control of a mechanical oscillator at its thermal decoherence rate

Tobias Kippenberg, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Ryan Daniel Schilling, Vivishek Sudhir, Amir Hossein Ghadimi, Nicolas Piro Mastracchio

In real-time quantum feedback protocols(1,2), the record of a continuous measurement is used to stabilize a desired quantum state. Recent years have seen successful applications of these protocols in a variety of well-isolated micro-systems, including micr ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Heralded Single-Phonon Preparation, Storage, and Readout in Cavity Optomechanics

Tobias Kippenberg, Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Nicolas Gisin, Nicolas Piro Mastracchio

We show how to use the radiation pressure optomechanical coupling between a mechanical oscillator and an optical cavity field to generate in a heralded way a single quantum of mechanical motion (a Fock state). Starting with the oscillator close to its grou ...

American Physical Society2014