Our latest Nature publication unveiling a new mechanism that explains superfluorescence at high temperatures
Publication announcement: our latest publication in Nature highlights our collaborative research that led to the discovery of a new mechanism explaining superfluorescence occurring at high temperatures.
Perovskites show superfluorescence-quantum coherence from solitons-emerging at high temperatures. Image: Ella Maru Studios
Our latest paper was just published in Nature, marking a major milestone for an international collaboration led by North Carolina State University and including colleagues at Duke University, Boston University, and Institut Polytechnique de Paris. The article titled, “Unconventional solitonic high-temperature superfluorescence from perovskites”, reveals how a self-organized exotic soliton state allows superfluorescence to survive well above cryogenic temperatures, opening realistic design routes for quantum materials that can operate in everyday environments.
Macroscopic exotic quantum phenomena such as superconductivity, superfluidity and superradiance usually collapse once thermal noise sets in. In our work we show that, once a critical density of polarons (quasiparticles formed by charge carriers coupled to the lattice) is excited, they self-organize into solitons: large, coherent groupings that effectively shield the system from thermal disturbances. This soliton-mediated damping provides a clear, quantitative mechanism for sustaining long-range quantum coherence at high temperatures including room temperature. These insights point directly toward new classes of materials for quantum computing, secure communications, and photonic devices that can operate without cryogenic cooling.
I was privileged with the opportunity to develop the computational algorithms in FHI-aims and ELSI that helped validate the experimental observations of the solitonic mechanism in this work.
Congratulations to a truly multidisciplinary team-Kenan Gundogdu, Melike Biliroglu, Mustafa Türe, Antonia Ghita, Myratgeldi Kotyrov, Xixi Qin, Dovletgeldi Seyitliyev, Natchanun Phonthiptokun, Malek Abdelsamei, Jingshan Chai, Rui Su, Anna Swan, Vasily Temnov, Volker Blum, and Franky So for an inspiring collaboration.
Read more:
Nature article: https://rdcu.be/eoeUQ
News release: https://shorturl.at/C39yA
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