SOFT MATTER PLATFORM FOR OPTICAL DEVICES VIA ENGINEERING OF NON-LINEAR TOPOLOGICAL STATES OF LIGHT

Project Information

TopoLight

Grant agreement ID: 964770

DOI

10.3030/964770

Project closed

EC signature date 22 January 2021

Start date 1 September 2021

End date 31 May 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

Total cost

€ 3 099 353,75

EU contribution

€ 3 099 353,75

Coordinated by

UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI
Poland

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (7)

Project website
Confirmation of strong light-matter coupling regime

Confirmation of strong lightmatter coupling regime

Measurement of quantum geometric tensor in OLCMC with Rashba-Dresselhaus SOC

Measurement of quantum geometric tensor in OLCMC with RashbaDresselhaus SOC

Design of OLC MCs

Design of organicliquidcrystal OLC microcavities MCs

Demonstration of condensates in tuneable hybrid OLC MCs

Demonstration of condensates in tuneable hybrid organicliquidcrystal microcavity OLC MCs

Strongly coupled OLC MC with Rashba-Dresselhaus SOC

Strongly coupled organicliquidcrystal microcavity OLC MC with RashbaDresselhaus SOC

Topological spin patterns of light polarisation in OLC MCs

Topological spin patterns of light polarisation in organicliquidcrystal microcavity OLC MCs

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (36)

Electrically Tunable Spin‐Orbit Coupled Photonic Lattice in a Liquid Crystal Microcavity

Author(s): Marcin Muszyński, Przemysław Oliwa, Pavel Kokhanchik, Piotr Kapuściński, Eva Oton, Rafał Mazur, Przemysław Morawiak, Wiktor Piecek, Przemysław Kula, Witold Bardyszewski, Barbara Piętka, Daniil Bobylev, Dmitry Solnyshkov, Guillaume Malpuech, Jacek Szczytko
Published in: Laser & Photonics Reviews, Issue 19, 2025, Page(s) 2400794, ISSN 1863-8880
Publisher: Wiley - VCH Verlag GmbH & CO. KGaA
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.202400794

Design of a room-temperature topological exciton-polariton laser in a ZnO/TiO2 photonic crystal slab

Author(s): I. Septembre, C. Leblanc, L. Hermet, H. S. Nguyen, X. Letartre, D. D. Solnyshkov, and G. Malpuech
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 107, 2023, Page(s) 155304, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.107.155304

Condensation of 2D exciton-polaritons in an open-access microcavity

Author(s): Feng Li, Yiming Li, L. Giriunas, M. Sich, D. D. Solnyshkov, G. Malpuech, A. A. P. Trichet, J. M. Smith, E. Clarke, M. S. Skolnick, D. N. Krizhanovskii
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, Issue 131, 2022, Page(s) 093101, ISSN 0021-8979
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0076459

Electrically tunable Berry curvature and strong light-matter coupling in liquid crystal microcavities with 2D perovskite

Author(s): K. Łempicka-Mirek, M. Król, H. Sigurdsson, A. Wincukiewicz, P. Morawiak, R. Mazur, M. Muszyński, W. Piecek, P. Kula, T. Stefaniuk, M. Kamińska, L. De Marco, P.G. Lagoudakis, D. Ballarini, D. Sanvitto, J. Szczytko, B. Piętka
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 8 (40), 2022, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abq7533

Domain-Wall Topology Induced by Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Polariton Graphene

Author(s): D. D. Solnyshkov, C. Leblanc, I. Septembre, G. Malpuech
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 129, 2022, Page(s) 066802, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.066802

Helical Polariton Lasing from Topological Valleys in an Organic Crystalline Microcavity

Author(s): Teng Long,Xuekai Ma,Jiahuan Ren,Feng Li,Qing Liao,Stefan Schumacher,Guillaume Malpuech,Dmitry Solnyshkov,Hongbing Fu
Published in: Advanced Science, 2022, Page(s) 2203588, ISSN 2198-3844
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GmbH
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202203588

Quantum vortex formation in the “rotating bucket” experiment with polariton condensates

Author(s): Ivan Gnusov, Stella Harrison , Sergey Alyatkin, Kirill Sitnik, Julian Töpfer, Helgi Sigurdsson, Pavlos Lagoudakis
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 9, 2023, Page(s) sciadv.add1299, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.add1299

Angular-Dependent Klein Tunneling in Photonic Graphene

Author(s): Zhaoyang Zhang, Yuan Feng, Feng Li, Sergei Koniakhin, Changbiao Li, Fu Liu, Yanpeng Zhang, Min Xiao, Guillaume Malpuech, and Dmitry Solnyshkov
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 129, 2022, Page(s) 233901, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.233901

Soliton formation in an exciton-polariton condensate at a bound state in the continuum

Author(s): I. Septembre, I. Foudjo, V. Develay, T. Guillet, S. Bouchoule, J. Zúñiga-Pérez, D. D. Solnyshkov, G. Malpuech
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 109, 2024, Page(s) 205302, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.109.205302

Analog of Foucault precession in two-dimensional quantum harmonic oscillators with Berry curvature

Author(s): D. D. Solnyshkov, I. Septembre, K. Ndiaye, G. Malpuech
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 108, 2023, Page(s) 144306, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.108.144306

Imaging lattice switching with Talbot effect in reconfigurable non-Hermitian photonic graphene

Author(s): Zhaoyang Zhang; Yuan Feng; Shaohuan Ning; G. Malpuech; D. D. Solnyshkov; Zhongfeng Xu; Yanpeng Zhang; Min Xiao
Published in: Photonics Research, Issue 10, 2022, Page(s) 958, ISSN 2327-9125
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/prj.447404

Weyl singularities in polaritonic multiterminal Josephson junctions

Author(s): I. Septembre, J. S. Meyer, D. D. Solnyshkov, and G. Malpuech
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 107, 2023, Page(s) 165301, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.107.165301

Minor embedding with Stuart-Landau oscillator networks

Author(s): S. L. Harrison, H. Sigurdsson, and P. G. Lagoudakis
Published in: Physical Review Research, Issue 5, 2023, Page(s) 013018, ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevresearch.5.013018

Non-Hermitian Delocalization in a Two-Dimensional Photonic Quasicrystal

Author(s): Zhaoyang Zhang, Shun Liang, Ismaël Septembre, Jiawei Yu, Yongping Huang, Maochang Liu, Yanpeng Zhang, Min Xiao, Guillaume Malpuech, Dmitry Solnyshkov
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 132, 2024, Page(s) 263801, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.263801

Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Mechanism in Exciton–Polariton Condensates for Photonic Spiking Neuronssystem

Author(s): Krzysztof Tyszka, Magdalena Furman, Rafał Mirek, Mateusz Król, Andrzej Opala, Bartłomiej Seredyński, Jan Suffczyński, Wojciech Pacuski, Michał Matuszewski, Jacek Szczytko, Barbara Piętka
Published in: Laser and Photonics Review, Issue 30 September 2022, 2022, Page(s) 2100660, ISSN 1863-8899
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GmbH, Weinheim
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.202100660

Mode-locked waveguide polariton laser

Author(s): H. Souissi, M. Gromovyi, I. Septembre, V. Develay, C. Brimont, L. Doyennette, E. Cambril, S. Bouchoule, B. Alloing, E. Frayssinet, J. Zúñiga-Pérez, T. Ackemann, G. Malpuech, D. D. Solnyshkov, T. Guillet
Published in: Optica, Issue 11, 2024, Page(s) 962, ISSN 2334-2536
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/optica.524753

Realizing Optical Persistent Spin Helix and Stern-Gerlach Deflection in an Anisotropic Liquid Crystal Microcavity

Author(s): Mateusz Król, Katarzyna Rechcińska, Helgi Sigurdsson, Przemysław Oliwa, Rafał Mazur, Przemysław Morawiak, Wiktor Piecek, Przemysław Kula, Pavlos Lagoudakis, Michał Matuszewski, Witold Bardyszewski, Barbara Piętka, Jacek Szczytko
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 127, 2021, Page(s) 190401, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.190401

Angle-dependent Andreev reflection at an interface with a polaritonic superfluid

Author(s): I. Septembre, D. D. Solnyshkov, G. Malpuech
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 108, 2023, Page(s) 115309, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.108.115309

Occupancy-driven Zeeman suppression and inversion in trapped polariton condensates

Author(s): Krzysztof Sawicki, Dmitriy Dovzhenko, Yuan Wang, Tamsin Cookson, Helgi Sigurðsson, Pavlos G. Lagoudakis
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 109, 2024, Page(s) 125307, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.109.125307

Realizing Persistent-Spin-Helix Lasing in the Regime of Rashba-Dresselhaus Spin-Orbit Coupling in a Dye-Filled Liquid-Crystal Optical Microcavity

Author(s): Marcin Muszyński, Mateusz Król, Katarzyna Rechcińska, Przemysław Oliwa, Mateusz Kędziora, Karolina Łempicka-Mirek, Rafał Mazur, Przemysław Morawiak, Wiktor Piecek, Przemysław Kula, Pavlos G. Lagoudakis, Barbara Piętka, and Jacek Szczytko
Published in: PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED, Issue 17, 2022, Page(s) 014041, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.17.014041

Non-Hermitian skin effect induced by Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling

Author(s): Pavel Kokhanchik, Dmitry Solnyshkov, and Guillaume Malpuech
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 108, 2023, Page(s) L041403, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.108.l041403

Modulated Rashba-Dresselhaus Spin-Orbit Coupling for Topology Control and Analog Simulations

Author(s): Pavel Kokhanchik, Dmitry Solnyshkov, Thilo Stöferle, Barbara Piętka, Jacek Szczytko, and Guillaume Malpuech
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 129, 2022, Page(s) 246801, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.246801

Free‐Standing Ultrathin Films of 2D Perovskite for Light‐Emitting Devices Operating at Strong Coupling Regime

Author(s): Karolina Łempicka‐Mirek, Mateusz Król, Rafał Mazur, Wiktor Piecek, Jacek Szczytko, Paweł W. Majewski, Barbara Piętka
Published in: Advanced Optical Materials, Issue 13, 2025, Page(s) 2401666, ISSN 2195-1071
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/adom.202401666

Topological Moiré Polaritons

Author(s): I. Septembre, C. Leblanc, D. D. Solnyshkov, G. Malpuech
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 133, 2025, Page(s) 266602, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.133.266602

Room temperature, cascadable, all-optical polariton universal gates

Author(s): Denis A. Sannikov, Anton V. Baranikov, Anton D. Putintsev, Mikhail Misko, Anton V. Zasedatelev, Ullrich Scherf, Pavlos G. Lagoudakis
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, Page(s) 5362, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49690-3

Directional planar antennae in polariton condensates

Author(s): Denis Aristov, Stepan Baryshev, Julian D. Töpfer, Helgi Sigurðsson, Pavlos G. Lagoudakis
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, Issue 123, 2023, Page(s) 121101, ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0159665

Optical Spin Hall Effect Pattern Switching in Polariton Condensates in Organic Single-Crystal Microbelts

Author(s): Jiahuan Ren, Teng Long, Chunling Gu, Hongbing Fu, Dmitry Solnyshkov, Guillaume Malpuech, Qing Liao
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 147, 2025, Page(s) 8336-8342, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c15894

Simultaneous creation of multiple vortex-antivortex pairs in momentum space in photonic lattices

Author(s): Feng Li, Sergei V. Koniakhin, Anton V. Nalitov, Evgeniia Cherotchenko, Dmitry D. Solnyshkov, Guillaume Malpuech, Min Xiao, Yanpeng Zhang, Zhaoyang Zhang
Published in: Advanced Photonics, Issue 5, 2024, Page(s) 066007, ISSN 2577-5421
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/1.ap.5.6.066007

Annihilation of exceptional points from different Dirac valleys in a 2D photonic system

Author(s): M. Król, I. Septembre, P. Oliwa, M. Kędziora, K. Łempicka-Mirek, M. Muszyński, R. Mazur, P. Morawiak, W. Piecek, P. Kula, W. Bardyszewski, P. G. Lagoudakis, D. D. Solnyshkov, G. Malpuech, B. Piętka & J. Szczytko
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 13, 2022, Page(s) 5340, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33001-9

Room-Temperature Electrical Field-Enhanced Ultrafast Switch in Organic Microcavity Polariton Condensates

Author(s): Jianbo De, Xuekai Ma, Fan Yin, Jiahuan Ren, Jiannian Yao, Stefan Schumacher, Qing Liao, Hongbing Fu, Guillaume Malpuech, and Dmitry Solnyshkov
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 145, 2023, Page(s) 1557, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c07557

Spin-Valley-Locked Electroluminescence for High-Performance Circularly Polarized Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

Author(s): Yibo Deng, Teng Long, Pingyang Wang, Han Huang, Zijian Deng, Chunling Gu, Cunbin An, Bo Liao, Guillaume Malpuech, Dmitry Solnyshkov, Hongbing Fu, Qing Liao
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 146, 2024, Page(s) 30990-30997, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c10020

Dual Orthogonally Polarized Lasing Assisted by Imaginary Fermi Arcs in Organic Microcavities

Author(s): Teng Long, Jiahuan Ren, Peng Li, Feng Yun, Guillaume Malpuech, Dmitry Solnyshkov, Hongbing Fu, Feng Li, Qing Liao
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 133, 2025, Page(s) 123802, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.133.123802

Giant effective Zeeman splitting in a monolayer semiconductor realized by spin-selective strong light–matter coupling

Author(s): T. P. Lyons, D. J. Gillard, C. Leblanc, J. Puebla, D. D. Solnyshkov, L. Klompmaker, I. A. Akimov, C. Louca, P. Muduli, A. Genco, M. Bayer, Y. Otani, G. Malpuech, A. I. Tartakovskii
Published in: Nature Photonics, Issue 16, 2022, Page(s) 632-636, ISSN 1749-4885
Publisher: Nature Pub. Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-022-01025-8

Universality of open microcavities for strong light-matter coupling

Author(s): M. Król, K. Łempicka-Mirek, K. Rechcińska, M. Furman, K. Nogajewski, R. Mazur, P. Morawiak, W. Piecek, W. Pacuski, J. Szczytko, and B. Piętka
Published in: Optical Materials Express, Issue 9, 2023, Page(s) 2651, ISSN 2159-3930
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ome.492285

Quantum mechanical-like approach with non-Hermitian effective Hamiltonians in spin-orbit coupled optical cavities

Author(s): Przemysław Oliwa, Witold Bardyszewski, Jacek Szczytko
Published in: Physical Review Research, Issue 6, 2024, Page(s) 013324, ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevresearch.6.013324

Polariton vortex Chern insulator [Invited]

Author(s): S. L. Harrison, A. Nalitov, P. G. Lagoudakis, H. Sigurðsson
Published in: Optical Materials Express, Issue 13, 2024, Page(s) 2550, ISSN 2159-3930
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ome.494448