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Bose-Einstein condensation of exciton polaritons

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, Vincenzo Savona, Stefan Kundermann

Phase transitions to quantum condensed phases - such as Bose - Einstein condensation (BEC), superfluidity, and superconductivity - have long fascinated scientists, as they bring pure quantum effects to a macroscopic scale. BEC has, for example, famously be ...

2006

Input-output theory of the unconventional photon blockade

Vincenzo Savona, Hugo Pierre Alexandre Flayac

We study the unconventional photon blockade, recently proposed for a coupled-cavity system, in the presence of input and output quantum fields. Mixing of the input or output channels still allows strong photon antibunching of the output field, but for opti ...

American Physical Society2013

Effect of hole-shape irregularities on photonic crystal waveguides

Vincenzo Savona, Momchil Minkov

The effect of irregular hole shape on the spectrum and radiation losses of a photonic crystal waveguide is studied using Bloch-mode expansion. Deviations from a circular hole are characterized by a radius fluctuation amplitude and correlation angle. It is ...

Optical Society of America2012

A quantum algorithm for the direct estimation of the steady state of open quantum systems

Vincenzo Savona

Simulating the dynamics and the non-equilibrium steady state of an open quantum system are hard computational tasks on conventional computers. For the simulation of the time evolution, several efficient quantum algorithms have recently been developed. Howe ...

2021

Low-Rank Variational Quantum Algorithm for the Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems

Sara Isabel Alves Dos Santos, Vincenzo Savona

The simulation of many-body open quantum systems is key to solving numerous outstanding problems in physics, chemistry, material science, and in the development of quantum technologies. Near-term quantum computers may bring considerable advantage for the e ...

2025

Superfluid–insulator transition in weakly interacting disordered Bose gases: a kernel polynomial approach

Vincenzo Savona, Pierre Bernard Henri Lugan, Joseph Saliba

An iterative scheme based on the kernel polynomial method is devised for the efficient computation of the one-body density matrix of weakly interacting Bose gases within Bogoliubov theory. This scheme is used to analyze the coherence properties of disorder ...

Institute of Physics (IoP) and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft2013

Superfluidity of a nonequilibrium Bose-Einstein condensate of polaritons

Vincenzo Savona

We study theoretically superfluidity in a driven-dissipative Bose gas out of thermal equilibrium, and discuss the relation with conventional superfluids. We show how the superfluid behavior is characterized by a dramatic increase in the lifetime of a quant ...

2010

Critical Schrodinger Cat Qubit

Vincenzo Savona, Fabrizio Minganti, Luca Gravina

Encoding quantum information onto bosonic systems is a promising route to quantum error correc-tion. In a cat code, this encoding relies on the confinement of the dynamics of the system onto the two-dimensional manifold spanned by Schrodinger cats of oppos ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Coherent optical control of the wave function of zero dimensional exciton polaritons

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, Vincenzo Savona, François Morier-Genoud, Marcia Portella Oberli, Gaël Nardin, Ounsi El Daïf, Taofiq Paraïso, Davide Sarchi, Barbara Pietka, Roland Cerna

Control of the wave function of confined microcavity polaritons is demonstrated experimentally and theoretically by means of tailored resonant optical excitation. Three dimensional confinement is achieved by etching mesas on top of the microcavity spacer l ...

2009

Optically Erasing Disorder in Semiconductor Microcavities with Dynamic Nuclear Polarization

Vincenzo Savona, Timothy Chi Hin Liew

The mean squared value of the photonic disorder is found to be reduced by a factor of 100 in a typical GaAs based microcavity when exposed to a circularly polarized continuous wave optical pump without any special spatial patterning. Resonant excitation of ...

American Physical Society2011

A compact, integrated silicon device for the generation of spectrally filtered, pair-correlated photons

Vincenzo Savona, Momchil Minkov

The third-order nonlinearity of silicon gives rise to a spontaneous four-wave mixing process in which correlated photon pairs are generated. Sources based on this effect can be used for quantum computation and cryptography, and can in principle be integrat ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Spectrum and thermal fluctuations of a microcavity polariton Bose-Einstein condensate

Vincenzo Savona, Davide Sarchi

The Hartree-Fock-Popov theory of interacting Bose particles is developed, for modeling exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities undergoing Bose-Einstein condensation. A self-consistent treatment of the linear exciton-photon coupling and of the exc ...

2008

Slow-light enhanced frequency combs and dissipative Kerr solitons in silicon coupled-ring microresonators in the telecom band

Vincenzo Savona

We propose a system of coupled microring resonators for the generation frequency combs and dissipative Kerr solitons in silicon at telecommunication frequencies. By taking advantage of structural slow-light, the effective non-linearity of the material is e ...

2021

Heralded Preparation and Readout of Entangled Phonons in a Photonic Crystal Cavity

Vincenzo Savona, Hugo Pierre Alexandre Flayac

We propose a realistic protocol for the preparation and readout of mechanical Bell states in an optomechanical system. The proposal relies on parameters characterizing a photonic crystal cavity mode, coupled to two localized flexural modes of the structure ...

American Physical Society2014

Long-distance radiative excitation transfer between quantum dots in disordered photonic crystal waveguides

Vincenzo Savona, Momchil Minkov

We theoretically investigate the magnitude and range of the photon-mediated interaction between two quantum dots embedded in a photonic crystal waveguide, including fabrication disorder both in the crystal and in the dot positioning. We find that disorder- ...

Amer Physical Soc2013

Driven-dissipative quantum Monte Carlo method for open quantum systems

Vincenzo Savona, Alexandra Nagy

We develop a real-time full configuration-interaction quantum Monte Carlo approach to model driven-dissipative open quantum systems with Markovian system-bath coupling. The method enables stochastic sampling of the Liouville–von Neumann time evolution of t ...

2018

Global Optimization of Ultrahigh-Q H0 Photonic Crystal Nanocavity in Silicon

Romuald Houdré, Vincenzo Savona, Momchil Minkov, Ulagalandha Perumal Dharanipathy, Mario Lucien Henri Tonin

The design of photonic crystal cavities has always presented a considerable challenge over the past two decades. In this work, a global optimization technique has been used to maximize the Q/V ratio of a simple H0 type nanocavity. The optimization is carri ...

Ieee2014

Multipartite polariton entanglement in semiconductor microcavities

Vincenzo Savona, Timothy Chi Hin Liew

We study the entanglement of multiple polariton modes, which results in continuous variable cluster states suitable for quantum computation. Schemes are based on parametric scattering between spin-polarized lower and upper polariton branches in planar micr ...

2011

Phonon-Mediated Coupling of InGaAs/GaAs Quantum-Dot Excitons to Photonic Crystal Cavities

Elyahou Kapon, Alok Rudra, Benjamin Dwir, Vincenzo Savona, Pascal Gallo, Kirill Atlasov, Milan Calic, Guillaume Jean Tarel

We demonstrate that the emission characteristics of site-controlled InGaAs/GaAs single quantum dots embedded in photonic crystal slab cavities correspond to single confined excitons coupled to cavity modes, unlike previous reports of similar systems based ...

2011

Onset of coherent photoluminescence in semiconductor microcavities

Vincenzo Savona

The nonlinear dynamics of exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities is treated within a model of interacting bosons for the signal, pump, and idler modes. The correlations between all three polariton modes are taken into account in the lowest order ...

2005