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Alberto Bramati

Alberto Bramati

Project Coordinator - Sorbonne Université

Professor at Sorbonne Université, his main research topics at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel are in the framework of Quantum Optics, Quantum Information and Nano-Photonics. In the last years he focussed on the study of polariton systems and semiconductor nanocrystals obtaining several pioneering results: among them are the first demonstration of polariton superfluidity, hydrodynamic dark solitons and polarized single photon sources.
Quentin Glorieux

Quentin Glorieux

LKB (Sorbonne Université)

Associate professor, he conducts two experimental activities on :

Nanophotonics : studying the coupling of single-photon emitters to nanostructures such as nanofiber
Quantum fluid of light : investigating superfluidity of light propagating in atomic media
Jacqueline Bloch

Jacqueline Bloch

CNRS - C2N

Professor Jacqueline Bloch is a CNRS Research Director leading a research group at the new Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the heart of the Paris Saclay Campus. She is an experimentalist, expert in Non-linear and Quantum Optics with semiconductors. She is widely recognized for her pioneering work on quantum fluids of light in semiconductor microcavities, their use for novel concepts in photonic devices and for the emulation of many body physics with light.

Cristiano Ciuti

Cristiano Ciuti

Université de Paris (Paris Diderot)

Director of the Laboratory on Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques (MPQ), he is professor, an innovative condensed matter theorist, and author of pioneering theoretical contributions to the physics of polaritons, quantum fluids of light and ultra-strong light-matter interaction.
Daniele Faccio

Daniele Faccio

University of Glasgow

Professor in Quantum Technologies, his research interests include nonlinear optics, where he has provided fundamental contributions to the understanding of laser filamentation, analogue models for gravity and novel nonlinearities in epsilon-near-zero materials. His research in the area of quantum imaging and active-imaging has recently provided the first demonstration of light-in-flight and tracking of objects hidden from view.

Claudio Conti

Claudio Conti

University Sapienza of Rome

Associate Professor, founder of the Nonlinear Photonics Laboratory, his contribution to PhoQuS project is The goal is to report on 3D+1 simulations of photon fluids in the various framework, including second quantized regimes tackled by the P-representation and stochastic partial differential equations
Martin Weitz

Martin Weitz

University of Bonn

Martin Weitz is a Professor for Experimental Physics. His research expertise includes the thermalization of photon gases in dye-filled optical microresonators, and the demontration of Bose-Einstein condensation of photons in this system. Other research expertise of M. Weitz include the quantum physics of ultracold atomic gases and the laser cooling of dense gases.

Tito Mendonça

Tito Mendonça

Instituto Superior Técnico

is the scientific coordinator of the Laboratory for Quantum Plasmas ), at IPFN (Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear), and a retired Professor of Physics of IST, University of Lisbon. His current interests include a variety of topics: ultra-cold matter, collective processes in BECs, superfluidity of light; twisted photons, and acceleration of helical beams; Photon turbulence, Rydberg plasmas and quantum technologies.

Iacopo Carusotto

Iacopo Carusotto

Trento University

Senior researcher at INO-CNR BEC Center, his research group has pioneered the many-body theory of quantum fluids of light and, more recently, synthetic magnetism and topological effects with light, with a specific interest also on the application of these systems as quantum simulators of gravitational systems
Robin Kaiser

Robin Kaiser

CRNS - INPHYNI

Exploiting his expertise on light-matter interactions for large clouds of atoms, Robin Kaiser has initiated a number of novel investigations, ranging from coherent backscattering of light by cold atoms, Lévy flights of photons, random lasing with cold atoms, intensity correlation experiments with astrophysical applications also aiming at the observation of random lasing in space, plasma physics, pattern formation, phase transitions in NMR and the use of hot atomic vapours for the study of quantum fluids of light.

Alberto Amo Garcia

Alberto Amo Garcia

CNRS - University of Lille

Researcher at Université de Lille in the Laboratoire PhLAM (Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules), his research group is currently studying superfluidity and turbulence in planar structures, and topological photonics in polariton lattices.

Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman

Imperial College London

Rob Nyman has worked on non-equilibrium quantum fluids in the contexts of liquid helium, atomic gases, and photon condensates in microcavities. He was awarded a UK-EPSRC 5-year fellowship in 2012. Since 2018 he has combined his academic work with a role developing microcavities for nanoparticle sensing at a spinout company, Oxford HighQ.

Partner Institutions

Sorbonne Université

Sorbonne Université

Kastler Brossel Laboratory (LKB)
University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow

School of Physics and Astronomy - Extreme Light
University Sapienza of Rome

University Sapienza of Rome

Nonlinear Photonics Laboratory
CNRS - C2N

CNRS - C2N

Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
CNRS - PhLAM

CNRS - PhLAM

Laboratory of Physics of Lasers, Atoms and Molecules
Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear

Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear

Bose-Einstein Condensation

Bose-Einstein Condensation

Quantum Materials and Phenomena

Quantum Materials and Phenomena

CNR- INO

CNR- INO

CNRS - INPHYNI

CNRS - INPHYNI

Institut de Physique de Nice
Imperial College of London

Imperial College of London