Dario Ballarini

Dr. Dario Ballarini

Advanced Photonics Lab, CNR-NANOTEC, 73100 Lecce LE, Italy

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Academic Career Length

22Years (2005-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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15 January 2009 in Nature
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AAA. Amo
A. Amo
DSD. Sanvitto
D. Sanvitto
FLF. P. Laussy
F. P. Laussy
Dario BallariniDario Ballarini
Dario Ballarini
EVE. del Valle
E. del Valle
LVL. Viña
L. Viña

30 April 2013 in Nature Communications
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Dario BallariniDario Ballarini
Dario Ballarini
MGM. De Giorgi
M. De Giorgi
ECE. Cancellieri
E. Cancellieri
RHR. Houdré
R. Houdré
EGE. Giacobino
E. Giacobino
DSD. Sanvitto
D. Sanvitto
Although optical technology provides the best solution for the transmission of information, all-optical devices must satisfy several qualitative criteria to be used as logic elements. In particular, cascadability is difficult to obtain in optical systems, and it is assured only if the output of one stage is in the correct form to drive the input of the next stage. Exciton-polaritons, which are composite particles resulting from the strong coupling between excitons and photons, have recently demonstrated huge non-linearities and unique propagation properties. Here we show that polariton fluids moving in the plane of the microcavity can operate as input and output of an all-optical transistor, obtaining up to 19 times amplification and demonstrating the cascadability of the system. Moreover, the operation as an AND/OR gate is shown, validating the connectivity of multiple transistors in the microcavity plane and opening the way to the implementation of polariton integrated circuits.

5 June 2017 in Nature Physics
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GLGiovanni Lerario
Giovanni Lerario
AFAntonio Fieramosca
Antonio Fieramosca
FBFábio Barachati
Fábio Barachati
Dario BallariniDario Ballarini
Dario Ballarini
KDKonstantinos S. Daskalakis
Konstantinos S. Daskalakis
DSDaniele Sanvitto
Daniele Sanvitto
Superfluidity---the suppression of scattering in a quantum fluid at velocities below a critical value---is one of the most striking manifestations of the collective behaviour typical of Bose-Einstein condensates. This phenomenon, akin to superconductivity in metals, has until now only been observed at prohibitively low cryogenic temperatures. For atoms, this limit is imposed by the small thermal de Broglie wavelength, which is inversely related to the particle mass. Even in the case of ultralight quasiparticles such as exciton-polaritons, superfluidity has only been demonstrated at liquid helium temperatures. In this case, the limit is not imposed by the mass, but instead by the small exciton binding energy of Wannier-Mott excitons, which places the upper temperature limit. Here we demonstrate a transition from normal to superfluid flow in an organic microcavity supporting stable Frenkel exciton-polaritons at room temperature. This result paves the way not only to table-top studies of quantum hydrodynamics, but also to room-temperature polariton devices that can be robustly protected from scattering.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures, supporting information 7 pages, 9 figure

19 February 2020 in Nature
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AGA. Gianfrate
A. Gianfrate
OBO. Bleu
O. Bleu
LDLorenzo Dominici
Lorenzo Dominici
VAV. Ardizzone
V. Ardizzone
MGM. De Giorgi
M. De Giorgi
GMG. Malpuech
G. Malpuech

18 May 2022 in Nature
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VAV. Ardizzone
V. Ardizzone
FRF. Riminucci
F. Riminucci
SZS. Zanotti
S. Zanotti
AGA. Gianfrate
A. Gianfrate
MEM. Efthymiou-Tsironi
M. Efthymiou-Tsironi
DSD. Sanvitto
D. Sanvitto

3 October 2014 in ACS Photonics
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SGSalvatore Gambino
Salvatore Gambino
MMMarco Mazzeo
Marco Mazzeo
AGArmando Genco
Armando Genco
Omar Di StefanoOmar Di Stefano
Omar Di Stefano
SSSalvatore Savasta
Salvatore Savasta
GGGiuseppe Gigli
Giuseppe Gigli