Paolo Comaron

postdoc

My interests involve studying the physics of quantum fluids of light and atoms. I use numerical simulations to investigate their behavior. Specifically, my academic experience is centered on the numerical modeling of exciton-polaritons in microcavities and ultracold Bose gases of atoms. My current research focuses on the type of phase transitions these systems can exhibit, universal phenomena, quantum turbulence, vortex dynamics, topological features, and engineering artificial intelligence in photonic devices.

Biographical Info

• Researcher at CNR Nanotec, Lecce, Italy (2024- present)
• Visiting Researcher at UCL, London, UK (2024- present)
• Research Fellow in Quantum Technologies at LCN and UCL, London, UK (2023-2024)
• Research Fellow at Prof. Szymanska’s Group at UCL, London, UK (2021-2023)
• Adjunct Professor (Research Associate) at Prof. Matuszewski Group at ifPAN, Poland (2019-2021)
• Research Associate at Prof. Proukakis Group at Newcastle University, UK (2018-2019)
• PhD at Newcastle University, UK (2014-2018)

Paolo has published 9 articles with us. The most recent ones are:

1. Multicomponent Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality in degenerate coupled condensates, Harvey Weinberger, Paolo Comaron, Marzena Szymańska, Communications Physics 8(1) 324 (2025)

2. Persistent, controllable circulation of a polariton ring condensate, Qi Yao, Paolo Comaron, Hassan Alnatah, Jonathan Beaumariage, Shouvik Mukherjee, Ken West, Loren Pfeiffer, Kirk Baldwin, Marzena Szymańska, David Snoke, Optica 12(7) 991--996 (2025)

3. Dynamics of Onsager vortex clustering in decaying turbulent polariton quantum fluids, P. Comaron, R. Panico, D. Ballarini, M. Matuszewski, Phys. Rev. Res. 7 L022006 (2025)

4. Coherence of a non-equilibrium polariton condensate across the interaction-mediated phase transition, P. Comaron, E. Estrecho, M. Wurdack, M. Pieczarka, M. Steger, D. Snoke, K. West, L. Pfeiffer, A. Truscott, M. Matuszewski, M. Szymańska, E. Ostrovskaya, Communications Physics 8(1) 94 (2025)

5. Directional Optical Parametric Amplification in a Hyperbolic Metamaterial, Antonio Gianfrate, Dimitrios Trypogeorgos, Paolo Comaron, Dawid Paszko, Marzena Szymańska, Milena Giorgi, Dario Ballarini, Daniele Sanvitto, (arXiv:2502.12866) (2025)