Polariton condensates for classical and quantum computing

A Kavokin, TCH Liew, C Schneider… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Polariton lasers emit coherent monochromatic light through a spontaneous emission
process. As a rare example of a system in which Bose–Einstein condensation and …

Self-assembled liquid crystal architectures for soft matter photonics

LL Ma, CY Li, JT Pan, YE Ji, C Jiang, R Zheng… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Self-assembled architectures of soft matter have fascinated scientists for centuries due to
their unique physical properties originated from controllable orientational and/or positional …

Chirality in light–matter interaction

A Lininger, G Palermo, A Guglielmelli… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The scientific effort to control the interaction between light and matter has grown
exponentially in the last 2 decades. This growth has been aided by the development of …

Roadmap on topological photonics

H Price, Y Chong, A Khanikaev… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Topological photonics seeks to control the behaviour of the light through the design of
protected topological modes in photonic structures. While this approach originated from …

Roadmap on structured waves

KY Bliokh, E Karimi, MJ Padgett, MA Alonso… - Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Structured waves are ubiquitous for all areas of wave physics, both classical and quantum,
where the wavefields are inhomogeneous and cannot be approximated by a single plane …

Halide perovskites enable polaritonic XY spin Hamiltonian at room temperature

R Tao, K Peng, L Haeberlé, Q Li, D Jin, GR Fleming… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Exciton polaritons, the part-light and part-matter quasiparticles in semiconductor optical
cavities, are promising for exploring Bose–Einstein condensation, non-equilibrium many …

Strong light-matter coupling in van der Waals materials

Y Luo, J Zhao, A Fieramosca, Q Guo, H Kang… - Light: Science & …, 2024 - nature.com
In recent years, two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals materials have emerged as a focal
point in materials research, drawing increasing attention due to their potential for isolating …

Optical switching of topological phase in a perovskite polariton lattice

R Su, S Ghosh, TCH Liew, Q Xiong - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
Strong light-matter interaction enriches topological photonics by dressing light with matter,
which provides the possibility to realize active nonlinear topological devices with immunity to …

Wave-vector-varying Pancharatnam-Berry phase photonic spin Hall effect

W Zhu, H Zheng, Y Zhong, J Yu, Z Chen - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
The geometric Pancharatnam-Berry (PB) phase not only is of physical interest but also has
wide applications ranging from condensed-matter physics to photonics. Space-varying PB …

Recent progress in functional dye‐doped liquid crystal devices

W Shen, H Zhang, Z Miao, Z Ye - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As a typical representative of dopants, organic functional dyes have demonstrated their
significant roles in novel smart liquid crystal (LC) devices, and dye‐doped LCs have also …