Join us for a ✨ FREE ✨ beer and aperitivo on Friday, 11th of October, 19:30 at the Crocevia Centro Multiculturale. We have planned an awesome night for you where we'r...
Ivan Gnusov got his PhD from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, where he studied the spin and vorticity properties of exciton-polariton condensates. His scientific interests include ...
Paolo Comaron joined the group as a fixed-term researcher. Paolo was previously working at the UCL theory group on GPE numerical simulations in polaritonic system...
2024-04-16
We have a fixed-term Level III researcher position available. The successful candidate will carry out scientific work on the manipulation of photonic quantum states by non-linear optical systems, w...
Deborah joined us as a postdoc after completing her PhD in the Quantum matter group at the University of Innsbruck. She will be working on setting up a new e...
Nicolas Cherroret from Laboratoire Kastler Brossel in Paris is visiting us to talk about his most recent results on out-of-equilibr...
2024-01-18
Are you looking for an internship, a fully-funded PhD or a post-doc position?
We currently have 2 positions open at any level for people in...
2023-12-14
Dr. Annalisa Coriolano is leaving Lecce after spending a few years with us as a PhD student. She developed a number of methods in two-dimensional materials and characterised their properties. Good ...
Today and tomorrow, 6th and 7th of November, Andrea Crespi from Milan Polytechnique is visiting us for the Kick Off meeting of the project PRIN 2022 FEMTO-PRINTER, which aims at the integration of ...
2023-11-06
We are organising a predoctorate school in polaritonics that will take place in Lecce in April 8 - 12, 2024.
The school is a gateway to the fascinating realm of quantum photonics in solid-st...
Ioannis Leontis carried out his PhD at the University of Exeter about the “Study of electron transport through graphene homojunctions and optoelectronic characterization of 2D perovskites”. His res...
Dr. Riccardo Panico, after successfully defending his thesis cum laude is moving to the University of Bonn to work on Bose-Einstein condensates ...
Ioannis is a PhD student at ETH and IBM and will spend a couple of months with us working on an all-optical implementation of topological lattice ...
Johannes Bürger is a soon-to-graduate PhD student at the Chair in Hybrid Nanosystems of Prof. Stefan A. Maier (LMU Munich). He is working on a variety of topics involving 3D-nanoprinting, hollow-co...
Grazia is an Academy Research Fellow from Aalto University, Finland, previously a Marie-Curie Fellow in the group of Päivi Törmä. Her interests ...
Clara is a PhD student from the from the Multifunctional Materials Group (CSIC-US) at the Institute of Materials Science of Seville ans id doing a research...
2023-09-12
We are currently looking for talented and motivated students with Physics and Materials Science backgrounds to join the group in experimental positions. Several research projects are available, and...
Mateusz comes from the Exciton-polariton research group at the University of Warsaw and will spend a month with us working on perovskites.
...2023-07-31
Our new website is online! The old website served us well for many years but was slowly starting to show its age. Direct editing of html files stops being fun after a little while. The old website ...
2023-05-03
We are organising the XVIII edition of OECS, the International Conference on Optics of Excitons in Confined Systems (OECS 18), that will take place in Lecce (Italy) from 12 to 16 of June 2023. OECS...
2023-01-01
Q-ONE - Quantum Optical Networks based on Exciton-polaritons, finanziato dall’Unione europea EU (2023 - 2027).
...2023-01-01
The mission of FEMTO-PRINTER is to explore and study polaritonic nonlinearities and manipulate quantum light sources within two-dimensional (2D) materials, utilizing femtosecond laser micromachinin...
2023-01-01
Complexity, disorder and fluctuations: spin glass physics and beyond (2023 - 2025).
...2023-01-01
A quantum neuromorphic recognition machine of quantum states. QNoRM aims at exploring a novel approach for sensing quantum states of light based on machine learning.
...2022-01-01
Integrated Infrastructure Initiative in Photonic and Quantum Sciences, finanziato dall’Unione europea - NextGeneration EU (2022 - 2025).
...2022-01-01
NQSTI - National Quantum Science and Technology Institute, finanziato dall’Unione europea - NextGeneration EU.
...2021-01-01
Hardware implementation of a polariton neural network for neuromorphic computing (2021 - 2023).
...2021-01-01
LazioInnova: NanoProbe "Nano-imaging endoscopico innovativo mediante tecniche di machine learning" .
...2021-01-01
Room-temperature Exciton Polariton Condensates in Perovskite Semiconductor Microcavities: from Quantum Control to Optoelectronic Devices (2021 - 2025).
...2020-07-02
Researchers from Cnr-Nanotec in Lecce have demonstrated in a work published on Nature that a photon beam can drift laterally from its trajectory due to the topological curvature of its energy band,...
2019-08-20
The kick-off meeting of the Interacting Photons in Polariton Circuits (INPhoPOL), PRIN project will take place in Lecce (Italy) from 2 to 3 of September 2019.
...2019-08-09
Cnr-Nanotec researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to create a Josephson junction in quantum superfluids of polaritons. Analogously to what happens between superconductors separated by a...
2019-05-20
The IV edition of TERAMETANANO, the International Conference on Terahertz Emission, Metamaterials and Nanophotonics, will take place in Lecce (Italy) from 27 to 31 of May 2019 in the 16th-century C...
2019-01-01
Interacting Photons in Polariton Circuits.
...2018-06-05
A pair of quantized vortices within a fluid of light and matter can evolve along trajectories analogous to the interaction of two point-like scattering particles. This was demonstrated by the exper...
2018-04-20
Polaritons are quasi-particles that originate from the coupling of light with matter and that demonstrate quantum phenomena at the many-particle mesoscopic level, such as Bose-Einstein condensation...
2018-03-20
Research conducted by researchers at the CNR Institute of Nanotechnology reveals the spontaneous formation of topological order in a photonic system. In practice, the interactions are able to spont...
2017-06-05
Scientists have known for centuries that light is composed of waves. The fact that light can also behave as a liquid, rippling and spiraling around obstacles like the current of a river, is a much ...
2017-01-01
In this proposal we plan to bring to a development stage TRL 3 an electro-optical device working at room temperature and based on polaritons (an hybrid photon-exciton particle) made of 2D perovskit...
2017-01-01
Light matter interaction solar energy and infrared detection (2017-2019).
...2016-08-28
Can photons in vacuum interact? The answer is not, since the vacuum is a linear medium where electromagnetic excitations and waves simply sum up, crossing themselves with no interaction. There exis...
2016-06-27
A laser pulse is like a drop of colored light that propagates undisturbed in a vacuum. Instead, when a drop of photons enters an optical microcavity designed to trap it and make it resonate with th...
2015-11-25
A new type of polarized light in a study by CNR researchers. It is the one with variable polarization over the pulse time, proposed again on an experimental basis by a study by the Institute of Nan...
2012-01-01
Polaritons are quantum superpositions of light and matter which combine appealing properties of both: the high coherence of photons and the strong interaction (non-linearities) of electrons. With t...
2023-01-01
Q-ONE - Quantum Optical Networks based on Exciton-polaritons, finanziato dall’Unione europea EU (2023 - 2027).
...2023-01-01
The mission of FEMTO-PRINTER is to explore and study polaritonic nonlinearities and manipulate quantum light sources within two-dimensional (2D) materials, utilizing femtosecond laser micromachinin...
2023-01-01
Complexity, disorder and fluctuations: spin glass physics and beyond (2023 - 2025).
...2023-01-01
A quantum neuromorphic recognition machine of quantum states. QNoRM aims at exploring a novel approach for sensing quantum states of light based on machine learning.
...2022-01-01
Integrated Infrastructure Initiative in Photonic and Quantum Sciences, finanziato dall’Unione europea - NextGeneration EU (2022 - 2025).
...2022-01-01
NQSTI - National Quantum Science and Technology Institute, finanziato dall’Unione europea - NextGeneration EU.
...2021-01-01
Hardware implementation of a polariton neural network for neuromorphic computing (2021 - 2023).
...2021-01-01
LazioInnova: NanoProbe "Nano-imaging endoscopico innovativo mediante tecniche di machine learning" .
...2021-01-01
Room-temperature Exciton Polariton Condensates in Perovskite Semiconductor Microcavities: from Quantum Control to Optoelectronic Devices (2021 - 2025).
...2020-07-02
Researchers from Cnr-Nanotec in Lecce have demonstrated in a work published on Nature that a photon beam can drift laterally from its trajectory due to the topological curvature of its energy band,...