Università di Napoli "Federico II"

CNR

Optics in Soft Matter Group

We perform research in optics and condensed matter physics mainly using the nonlinear optical interaction of intense laser light with matter as a spectroscopic tool. We are interested in complex materials both in the soft-matter field and in the field of highly correlated electronic materials.

Lab principal investigators:
- Lorenzo Marrucci, associate professor of physics
- Domenico Paparo, CNR scientist

People:

- Lorenzo Marrucci, associate professor
- Domenico Paparo, CNR scientist
- Ebrahim Karimi, post-doctoral fellow
- Sergei Slussarenko, post-doctoral fellow
- Andrea D'Angiò, graduate student (M.Sc.)
- Francesco D'Angelo, graduate student (M.Sc.)
Alumni page (former group members)

THESIS SUBJECTS AVAILABLE FOR STUDENTS:
"Laurea" (M.S.) and "Dottorato di Ricerca" (Ph.D.) internship positions available.

FOREIGN STUDENTS OR POST-DOC WELCOME!
If you are interested in joining our group, contact Lorenzo Marrucci, attaching a CV to your e-mail and indicating at least two references. At the moment however there are no internally funded open positions in the group. If you wish to do a PhD with us, you may apply to the Naples research doctorate in fundamental and applied physics, which supports some students with university fellowships.

Current research activities:

Current collaborations:
(outside CNR-SPIN and the Optics in Soft Matter group)

Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism, University of Augsburg, Germany (Prof. Jochen Mannhart)

Nonlinear Optics on Strongly Correlated Solid-State Systems, University of Bonn, Germany (Prof. Manfred Fiebig)

Quantum Optics Group, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy (Dr. Fabio Sciarrino).

Biosurface Spectroscopy Group, AMOLF Institute, Netherland (Prof. Mischa Bonn)

Peter Palffy-Muhoray's group, Kent State University (Ohio, USA)

Groupe de Physique des Materiaux, Université de Rouen & CNRS, France (Prof. Bernard Deconihout)

Selected recent publications from our lab:

• Onset and dynamics of vortex-antivortex pairs in polariton optical parametric oscillator superfluids
  G. Tosi, F. M. Marchetti, D. Sanvitto, C. Antón, M. H. Szymańska, A. Bercenau, C. Tejedor, L. Marrucci, A. Lemaître, J. Bloch, L. Viña, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 036401 (2011) [Link]

• Spectral and spatial distribution of polarization at the LaAlO₃/SrTiO₃ interface
  A. Rubano, M. Fiebig, D. Paparo, A. Marino, D. Maccariello, U. Scotti di Uccio, F. Miletto Granozio, L. Marrucci, C. Richter, S. Paetel, J. Mannhart, Phys. Rev. B 83, 155405 (2011) [Link]

• Experimental Optimal Cloning of Four-Dimensional Quantum States of Photons
  E. Nagali, D. Giovannini, L. Marrucci, S. Slussarenko, E. Santamato, F. Sciarrino Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 073602 (2010) [Link]

• Persistent currents and quantized vortices in a polariton superfluid
  D. Sanvitto, F. M. Marchetti, M. H. Szymańska, G. Tosi, M. Baudish, F. P. Laussy, D. N. Krizhanovskii, M. S. Skolnick, L. Marrucci, A. Lemaître, J. Bloch, C. Tejedor, L. Viña, Nature Physics 6, 527-533 (2010) [Link]

• Optimal quantum cloning of orbital angular momentum photon qubits through Hong–Ou–Mandel coalescence, E. Nagali, L. Sansoni, F. Sciarrino, F. De Martini, L. Marrucci, B. Piccirillo, E. Karimi, E. Santamato, Nature Photonics 3, 720-723 (2009) [Link]

• Polar catastrophe and electronic reconstructions at the LaAlO₃/SrTiO₃ interface: evidence from optical second harmonic generation, A. Savoia, D. Paparo, P. Perna, Z. Ristic, M. Salluzzo, F. Miletto Granozio, U. Scotti di Uccio, C. Richter, S. Thiel, J. Mannhart, L. Marrucci, Phys. Rev. B 80, 075110 (2009) [Link]

• Optical spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion in inhomogeneous anisotropic media, L. Marrucci, C. Manzo, D. Paparo, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 163905 (2006). [Link]