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Photonic molecules, i.e. artificial structures composed of coherently coupled optical cavities, are paradigmatic systems for investigating fundamental phenomena across photonics, quantum optics and topological physics. In recent years,…
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We present a complete analytical solution for a single four-level atom strongly coupled to a cavity field mode and driven by external coherent laser fields. The four-level atomic system consists of a three-level subsystem in an EIT…
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In recent years, novel two-dimensional materials such as graphene, bismuthene and transition-metal dichalcogenides have attracted considerable interest due to their unique physical properties. A range of physical effects can be transferred…
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We propose a lattice model, in both one- and multidimensional versions, which may give rise to matching conditions necessary for the generation of solitons through the second-harmonic generation. The model describes an array of linearly…
We study experimentally the interaction of a soliton with a nonlinear lattice. We observe the formation of a novel type of composite soliton created by strong coupling of mutually incoherent periodic and localized beam components. By…
Microcavity-polaritons in two-dimensional lattice geometries have been used to study a wide range of interesting physics. Meanwhile, organic materials have shown great promise on the road towards polaritonic devices, as the strong binding…
We study formation of superfluid currents of exciton polaritons in annular polariton condensates in a cylindrical micropillar cavity under the spatially localised nonresonant optical pumping. Since polariton condensates are strongly…