Publications by Luca Fontanesi

Quantum Phase Transition in a Low-Dimensional Weakly Interacting Bose Gas

This thesis is devoted to the study of the effect of disorder on low-dimensional weakly interacting Bose gases. In particular, the disorder triggers a quantum phase transition in one dimension at zero temperature that is investigated here through the study ...

EPFL2011

Polariton Condensation in a One-Dimensional Disordered Potential

Vincenzo Savona, Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, Konstantinos Lagoudakis, Barbara Pietka, Luca Fontanesi, Francesco Manni

We study the coherence and density modulation of a nonequilibrium exciton-polariton condensate in a one-dimensional valley with disorder. By means of interferometric measurements we evidence a modulation of the ﬁrst-order coherence function and we relate i ...

American Physical Society2011

Fragmentation and the Bose-glass phase transition of the disordered one-dimensional Bose gas

Vincenzo Savona, Luca Fontanesi

We investigate the superfluid-insulator quantum phase transition in a disordered one-dimensional Bose gas in the mean-field limit by studying the probability distribution of the density. The superfluid phase is characterized by a vanishing probability to h ...

2011

Mean-field phase diagram of the one-dimensional Bose gas in a disorder potential

Vincenzo Savona, Luca Fontanesi

We study the quantum phase transition of the 1D weakly interacting Bose gas in the presence of disorder. We characterize the phase transition as a function of disorder and interaction strengths, by inspecting the long-range behavior of the one-body density ...

2010

Light-Matter Interaction in Organic Microcavities with Vibronic Progressions

Luca Fontanesi

The optical properties of an organic polycrystalline layer of NTCDA embedded in a microcavity show exciton-photon coupling between the cavity mode and both the 0 - 0 and 0 - 1 transitions. In this work we present a theoretical microscopic model that reprod ...

Amer Inst Physics, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Ste 1No1 D, Melville, Ny 11747-4501 Usa2009

Superfluid to Bose-Glass Transition in a 1D Weakly Interacting Bose Gas

Vincenzo Savona, Luca Fontanesi

We study the one-dimensional Bose gas in spatially correlated disorder at zero temperature, using an extended density-phase Bogoliubov method. We analyze, in particular, the decay of the one-body density matrix and the behavior of the Bogoliubov excitation ...

American Physical Society2009