Publications

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2018

• Properties of the signal mode in the polariton optical parametric oscillator regime
  K. Dunnett, A. Ferrier, A. Zamora, G. Dagvadorj, and M. H. Szymańska
  Phys. Rev. B 98, 165307 (2018)
• Coherently driven microcavity-polaritons and the question of superfluidity
  R. T. Juggins, J. Keeling and M. H. Szymańska
  Nature Comms. 9, 4062 (2018)
• Dynamical critical exponents in driven-dissipative quantum systems
  P. Comaron, G. Dagvadorj, A. Zamora, I. Carusotto, N. P. Proukakis, and M. H. Szymańska
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 095302 (2018)
• Rare quantum metastable states in the strongly dispersive Jaynes-Cummings oscillator
  Th. K. Mavrogordatos, F. Barratt, U. Asari, P. Szafulski, E. Ginossar, and M. H. Szymańska
  Phys. Rev. A 97, 033828 (2018)
• Topological order and thermal equilibrium in polariton condensates
  Davide Caputo, Dario Ballarini, Galbadrakh Dagvadorj, Carlos Sánchez Muñoz, Milena De Giorgi, Lorenzo Dominici, Kenneth West, Loren N. Pfeiffer, Giuseppe Gigli, Fabrice P. Laussy, Marzena H. Szymańska, and Daniele Sanvitto
  Nature Materials 17, 145 (2018)

2017

• Tuning across Universalities with a Driven Open Condensate
  A. Zamora, L. M. Sieberer, K. Dunnett, S. Diehl, and M. H. Szymańska
  Phys. Rev. X 7, 041006 (2017)
• Macroscopic Two-Dimensional Polariton Condensates
  Dario Ballarini, Davide Caputo, Carlos Sánchez Muñoz, Milena De Giorgi, Lorenzo Dominici, Marzena H. Szymańska, Kenneth West, Loren N. Pfeiffer, Giuseppe Gigli, Fabrice P. Laussy, and Daniele Sanvitto
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 215301 (2017)
• Simultaneous Bistability of a Qubit and Resonator in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics
  Th. K. Mavrogordatos, G. Tancredi, M. Elliott, M. J. Peterer, A. Patterson, J. Rahamim, P. J. Leek, E. Ginossar, and M. H. Szymańska
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 040402 (2017)

2016

• Twist of generalized skyrmions and spin vortices in a polariton superfluid
  Stefano Donati, Lorenzo Dominici, Galbadrakh Dagvadorj, Dario Ballarini, Milena De Giorgi, Alberto Bramati, Giuseppe Gigli, Yuri G. Rubo, Marzena Hanna Szymańska, and Daniele Sanvitto
  Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci 113, 14926 (2016)
• Keldysh field theory for nonequilibrium condensation in a parametrically pumped polariton system
  K. Dunnett, M. H. Szymańska
  Phys. Rev. B 93, 195306 (2016)

2015

• Vortex and half-vortex stability in coherently driven spinor polariton fluid
  L. Dominici, G. Dagvadorj, J.M. Fellows, S. Donati, D. Ballarini, M. De Giorgi, F.M. Marchetti, B. Piccirillo, L. Marrucci, A. Bramati, G. Gigli, M.H. Szymańska, D. Sanvitto
  Sci. Adv. 1, e1500807 (2015)
• Non-equilibrium Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition in a Driven Open Quantum System
  G. Dagvadorj, J. M. Fellows, S. Matyjaskiewicz, F. M. Marchetti, I. Carusotto, M. H. Szymańska
  Phys. Rev. X 5, 041028 (2015)
• Multicomponent polariton superfluidity in the optical parametric oscillator regime
  A. C. Berceanu, L. Dominici, I. Carusotto, D. Ballarini, E. Cancellieri, G. Gigli, M. H. Szymańska, D. Sanvitto, and F. M. Marchetti
  Phys. Rev. B 92, 035307 (2015)
• Spontaneous vortex arrays in a parametrically driven polariton condensate
  J.O. Hamp, A.K. Balin, F.M. Marchetti, D. Sanvitto, M.H. Szymańska
  EPL (Europhysics Letters)110, 57006 (2015)

2014

• Merging of vortices and antivortices in polariton superfluids
  E. Cancellieri, T. Boulier, R. Hivet, D. Ballarini, D. Sanvitto, M. H. Szymańska, C. Ciuti, E. Giacobino, A. Bramati
  Phys. Rev. B 90, 214518 (2014)
• Interaction-shaped vortex-antivortex lattices in polariton fluids
  R. Hivet, E. Cancellieri, T. Boulier, D. Ballarini, D. Sanvitto, F. M. Marchetti, M. H. Szymanska, C. Ciuti, E. Giacobino, A. Bramati
  Phys. Rev. B 90, 019904 (2014)
• Interactions in dye-microcavity photon condensates and the prospects for their observation
  R. A. Nyman and M. H. Szymańska
  Phys. Rev. A 89, 033844 (2014)

2012

• Control and ultrafast dynamics of a two-fluid polariton switch
  M. De Giorgi, D. Ballarini, E. Cancellieri, F. M. Marchetti, M. H. Szymanska, C. Tejedor, R. Cingolani, E. Giacobino, A. Bramati, G. Gigli, D. Sanvitto
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 266407 (2012)
• Intertwining Electron Tunneling with Light
  Marzena H. Szymańska
  Science 336, 679 (2012)
• Power-law decay of the spatial correlation function in exciton-polariton condensates
  Georgios Roumpos, Michael Lohse, Wolfgang H. Nitsche, Jonathan Keeling, Marzena Hanna Szymańska, Peter B. Littlewood, Andreas Löffler, Sven Höfling, Lukas Worschech, Alfred Forchel, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto
  Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci 109, 6467 (2012)
• Frictionless flow in a binary polariton superfluid
  E. Cancellieri, F. M. Marchetti, M. H. Szymańska, D. Sanvitto, C. Tejedor
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 065301 (2012)

2011

• Onset and Dynamics of Vortex-Antivortex Pairs in Polariton Optical Parametric Oscillator Superfluids
  G. Tosi, F. M. Marchetti, D. Sanvitto, C. Anton, M. H. Szymańska, A. Berceanu, C. Tejedor, L. Marrucci, A. Lematre, J. Bloch, L. Vina
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 036401 (2011)
• Strain-Induced Darkening of Trapped Excitons in Coupled Quantum Wells at Low Temperature
  N. W. Sinclair, J. K. Wuenschell, Z. Voros, B. Nelsen, D. W. Snoke, M. H. Szymańska, A. Chin, J. Keeling, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West
  Phys. Rev. B 83, 245304 (2011)
• Multistability of a two component exciton-polariton fluid
  E. Cancellieri, F. M. Marchetti, M. H. Szymańska, C. Tejedor
  Phys. Rev. B 83, 214507 (2011)

2010

• Superflow of resonantly driven polaritons against a defect
  E. Cancellieri, F. M. Marchetti, M. H. Szymańska, C. Tejedor
  Phys. Rev. B 82, 224512 (2010)
• Propagating wavepackets and quantised currents in coherently driven polariton superfluids
  M. H. Szymańska, F. M. Marchetti, D. Sanvitto
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 236402 (2010)
• Spontaneous and Triggered Vortices in Polariton Optical-Parametric-Oscillator Superfluids
  F. M. Marchetti, M. H. Szymańska, C. Tejedor, D. M. Whittaker
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 063902 (2010)
• Persistent currents and quantised vortices in a polariton superfluid
  D. Sanvitto, F. M. Marchetti, M. H. Szymańska, G. Tosi, M. Baudisch, F. P. Laussy, D. N. Krizhanovskii, M. S. Skolnick, L. Marrucci, A. Lemaitre, J. Bloch, C. Tejedor, L. Vina
  Nature Physics 6, 527 (2010)

2008

• Probing Fermionic Condensates by Fast-Sweep Projection onto Feshbach Molecules
  S. Matyjaśkiewicz, M. H. Szymańska, K. Góral
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 150410 (2008)
• Phase diagram for condensation of microcavity polaritons: From theory to practice
  F. M. Marchetti, M. H. Szymańska, J. Keeling, J. Kasprzak, R. André, Le Si Dang, P. B. Littlewood
  Phys. Rev. B 77, 235313 (2008)

2007

• Coherence properties and luminescence spectra of condensed polaritons in CdTe microcavities
  M. H. Szymańska, F. M. Marchetti, J. Keeling, P. B. Littlewood
  Solid State Commun. 144, 364 (2007)
• Absorption, Photoluminescence and Resonant Rayleigh Scattering Probes of Condensed Microcavity Polaritons
  F. M. Marchetti, J. Keeling, M. H. Szymańska, P. B. Littlewood
  Phys. Rev. B 76, 115326 (2007)
• Mean field theory and fluctuation spectrum of a pumped, decaying Bose-Fermi system across the quantum condensation transition
  M. H. Szymańska, J. Keeling, P. B. Littlewood
  Phys. Rev. B 75, 195331 (2007)
• Collective coherence in planar semiconductor microcavities
  J. Keeling, F. M. Marchetti, M. H. Szymańska, P. B. Littlewood
  Semicond. Sci. Technol. 22, R1-R26 (2007)

2006

• Bose-Einstein condensation of exciton polaritons
  J. Kasprzak, M. Richard, S. Kundermann, A. Baas, P. Jeambrun, J. M. J. Keeling, F. M. Marchetti, M. H. Szymańska, R. Andre, J. L. Staehli, V. Savona, P. B. Littlewood, B. Deveaud, Le Si Dang
  Nature 443, 409 (2006)
• Non-equilibrium quantum condensation in an incoherently pumped dissipative system
  M. H. Szymańska, J. Keeling, P. B. Littlewood
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 230602 (2006)
• Thermodynamics and excitations of condensed polaritons in disordered microcavities
  F. M. Marchetti, J. Keeling, M. H. Szymańska, P. B. Littlewood
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 066405 (2006)

2005

• BCS-BEC crossover in a system of microcavity polaritons
  J. Keeling, P. R. Eastham, M. H. Szymańska, P. B. Littlewood
  Phys. Rev. B 72, 115320 (2005)
• Conventional character of the BCS-BEC crossover in ultracold gases of 40K
  M. H. Szymańska, K. Góral, T. Köhler, K. Burnett
  Phys. Rev. A 72, 013610 (2005)
• Dynamics of the BCS-BEC crossover in a degenerate Fermi gas
  M. H. Szymańska, B. D. Simons, K. Burnett
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 170402 (2005)
• Condensation and lasing of microcavity polaritons: comparison between two models
  F. M. Marchetti, M. H. Szymańska, P. R. Eastham, B. D. Simons, P. B. Littlewood
  Solid State Commun. 134, 111 (2005)

2004

• Polariton condensation with localized excitons and propagating photons
  J. Keeling, P. R. Eastham, M. H. Szymańska, P. B. Littlewood
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 226403 (2004)
• Models of coherent exciton condensation
  P. B. Littlewood, P. R. Eastham, J. Keeling, F. M. Marchetti, B. D. Simons, M. H. Szymańska
  J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 16, S3597 (2004)

2003

• Polarization-dependent photoluminescence-excitation spectra of one-dimensional exciton and continuum states in T-shaped quantum wires
  H. Itoh, Y. Hayamizu, M. Yoshita, H. Akiyama, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, M. H. Szymańska, P. B. Littlewood
  Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 2043 (2003)
• Polariton condensation and lasing in optical microcavities: The decoherence-driven crossover
  M. H. Szymańska, P. B. Littlewood, B. D. Simons
  Phys. Rev. A 68, 013818 (2003)
• Phase-locking in quantum and classical oscillators: polariton condensates, lasers, and arrays of Josephson junctions
  P. R. Eastham, M. H. Szymańska, P. B. Littlewood
  Solid State Commun. 127, 117 (2003)
• Excitonic Binding in Coupled Quantum Wells
  M. H. Szymańska, P. B. Littlewood
  Phys. Rev. B 67, 193305 (2003)

2002

• Some remarks on the ground state of the exciton and exciton-polariton system
  P. B. Littlewood, G. J. Brown, P. R. Eastham, M. H. Szymańska
  Physica Status Solidi (b) 234, 36 (2002)
• The crossover between lasing and polariton condensation in optical microcavities
  M. H. Szymańska, P. B. Littlewood
  Solid State Commun. 124, 103 (2002)

2001

• Coexistence of excitonic lasing with electron-hole plasma, spontaneous emission in one-dimensional semiconductor structures
  J. Rubio, L. N. Pfeiffer, M. H. Szymańska, A. Pinczuk, S. He, H. U. Baranger, P. B. Littlewood, K. W. West, B. S. Dennis
  Solid State Commun. 120, 423 (2001)
• Excitons in T-shaped quantum wires
  M. H. Szymańska, P. B. Littlewood, R. J. Needs
  Phys. Rev. B 63, 205317 (2001)

1999

• Effect of a photonic band gap on the threshold and output power of solid-state lasers and light-emitting diodes
  M. H. Szymańska, A. F. Hughes, E. R. Pike
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 69 (1999)

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Conference Proceedings

1. Pulse, polarization and topology shaping of polariton fluids 
   Lorenzo Dominici, David Colas, Stefano Donati, Galbadrakh Dagvadorj, Antonio Gianfrate, Carlos Sánchez Muñoz, Dario Ballarini, Milena De Giorgi, Giuseppe Gigli, Marzena H. Szymańska, Fabrice P. Laussy, Daniele Sanvitto
   Proc. SPIE 10120, Complex Light and Optical Forces XI, 101200E (2017)
2. Mean-field and quantum-fluctuation dynamics in the driven dispersive Jaynes-Cummings model 
   Th. Mavrogordatos, P. Szafulski, E.Gionossar and M. H. Szymańska
   Proc. SPIE 10142, 20th Slovak-Czech-Polish Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics (2016)
3. Hydrodinamical phenomena in polariton condensates 
   D. Sanvitto, M. De Giorgi, D. Ballarini, A. Amo, G. Tosi, F. Marchetti, M. H. Szymánska, S. Pigeon, V. G. Sala, E. Cancellieri, I. Carusotto, R. Hivet, F. Pisanello, G. Lemenager, R. Houdré, A. Lemaître, J. Bloch, E. Giacobino, C. Tejedor, L. Viña, C. Ciuti, A. Bramati, G. Gigli
   AIP Conference Proceeding Series 1399, 30th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (2011)
4. Drag Force and Superfluidity in Optical Parametrical Oscillators 
   E. Cancellieri, F. M. Marchetti, M. H. Szymańska, D. Sanvitto and C. Tejedor
   CLEO EUROPE/EQEC 2011, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference (2011)
5. Persistent quantised currents in a polariton superfluid 
   F. M. Marchetti, M. H. Szymańska, D. Sanvitto, G. Tosi, M. Baudisch, A. Lemaitre, J. Bloch, E. Karimi, B. Piccirillo, L. Marrucci, C. Tejedor, L. Vina
   11th International Conference on Optics of Excitons in Confined Systems, Journal of Physics Conference Series 210 (2010)
6. Bose–Einstein condensation of microcavity polaritons—myth or reality?
   J. Kasprzak, M. Richard, S. Kundermann, A. Baas, P. Jeambrun, J. Keeling, F. M. Marchetti, M. H. Szymanska, R. André, J. L. Staehli, P. B. Littlewood, B. Deveaud
   Nanosctructures: Physics and Technology, 14th International Symposium, St. Petersburg, Russia, (2006)

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Books and Book Chapters

1. Quantum Gases: Finite Temperature and Non-Equilibrium Dynamics (Vol. 1 Cold Atoms Series)
   N. P. Proukakis, S. A. Gardiner, M. Davis, M. H. Szymanska (editors)
   and chapter Non-Equilibrium Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Dissipative Environment M. H. Szymańska, J. Keeling, P. B. Littlewood 
   Imperial College Press, London, ISBN: 978-1-84816-810-7
2. Vortices in polariton OPO superfluids 
   F. M. Marchetti, M. H. Szymańska
   chapter in Exciton Polaritons in Microcavities – New Frontiers 
   Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 3642241948, arXiv:1107.4487 (2011)
3. Keldysh Green’s function approach to coherence in a non-equilibrium steady state: connecting Bose-Einstein condensation and lasing 
   J. Keeling, M. H. Szymańska, P. B. Littlewood
   chapter in Optical Generation and Control of Quantum Coherence in Semiconductor Nanostructures  
   Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-642-12490-7, arXiv:1001.3338 (2010)
4. Novel Quantum Condensates in Excitonic Matter 
   P. B. Littlewood, J. M. J. Keeling, P. R. Eastham, F. M. Marchetti, M. H. Szymańska
   chapter in Lectures on the physics of strongly correlated systems XIII, 
   AIP Conference Proceedings 1162 15 (2009)
5. The Photonic Band Gap Laser: The Role of Spontaneous Emission in the Theory of Solid-State Lasers and LEDs 
   E. R. Pike, A. F. Hughes, M. H. Szymańska
   chapter in Directions in Quantum Optics edited by H. J. Carmichael, R. J. Glauber, M. O. Scully
   p. 250-260, Springer-Verlag ISBN: 3540411879 (2001)