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ArticleLight, science & applications2024

Nonlinear Rydberg exciton-polaritons in Cu

Maxim Makhonin, Anthonin Delphan, Kok Wee Song, Paul Walker, Tommi Isoniemi, Peter Claronino, Konstantinos Orfanakis, Sai Kiran Rajendran, Hamid Ohadi, Julian Heckötter and 6 more

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Article in Light, science & applications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Two-dimensional metal oxide polaritonics.Nature communications · 2026
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  3. Polaritonic quantum matter.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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16 authors.

Maxim MakhoninDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S3 7RH, UK. m.makhonin@sheffield.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0457-9024
Anthonin DelphanDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S3 7RH, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1197-7736
Kok Wee SongDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4PY, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5867-5452
Paul WalkerDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S3 7RH, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5431-318X
Tommi IsoniemiDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S3 7RH, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0238-1006
Peter ClaroninoDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S3 7RH, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3186-3442
Konstantinos OrfanakisSUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9SS, UK.
Sai Kiran RajendranSUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9SS, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9079-120X
Hamid OhadiSUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9SS, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6418-111X
Julian HeckötterFakultät Physik, TU Dortmund, August-Schmidt-Straße 4, 44227, Dortmund, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1875-6626
Marc AssmannFakultät Physik, TU Dortmund, August-Schmidt-Straße 4, 44227, Dortmund, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4953-1286
Manfred BayerFakultät Physik, TU Dortmund, August-Schmidt-Straße 4, 44227, Dortmund, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0893-5949
Alexander TartakovskiiDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S3 7RH, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4169-5510
Maurice SkolnickDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S3 7RH, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3972-8344
Oleksandr KyriienkoDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4PY, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6259-6570
Dmitry KrizhanovskiiDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S3 7RH, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6436-7384

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rydberg excitons (analogues of Rydberg atoms in condensed matter systems) are highly excited bound electron-hole states with large Bohr radii. The interaction between them as well as exciton coupling to light may lead to strong optical nonlinearity, with applications in sensing and quantum information processing. Here, we achieve strong effective photon-photon interactions (Kerr-like optical nonlinearity) via the Rydberg blockade phenomenon and the hybridisation of excitons and photons forming polaritons in a Cu2O-filled microresonator. Under pulsed resonant excitation polariton resonance frequencies are renormalised due to the reduction of the photon-exciton coupling with increasing exciton density. Theoretical analysis shows that the Rydberg blockade plays a major role in the experimentally observed scaling of the polariton nonlinearity coefficient as ∝ n

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