Expérimental
Photons are great carriers of information but they usually don’t interact with one another. Atoms interact but are hard to manipulate and do not benefit from the toolbox of quantum optics for detecting quantum fluctuations and entanglement. Our approach to marry these two systems for quantum simulation is to use exciton-polaritons in semi-conductor microcavity. Our team is using this platform to simulate astrophyics effects near artificial black holes with light.