Research interests

Publications

• Su, R, Estrecho, E, Bieganska, D et al. 2021, 'Direct measurement of a non-Hermitian topological invariant in a hybrid light-matter system', Science Advances, vol. 7, no. 45, pp. 1-9.
• Bieganska, D, Pieczarka, M, Estrecho, E et al. 2021, 'Collective Excitations of Exciton-Polariton Condensates in a Synthetic Gauge Field', Physical Review Letters, vol. 127, no. 18, pp. 1-7.
• Yun, T, Wurdack, M, Pieczarka, M et al. 2021, 'Influence of direct deposition of dielectric materials on the optical response of monolayer WS2', Applied Physics Letters, vol. 119, no. 13, pp. 1-7.
• Pieczarka, M, Estrecho, E, Ghosh, S et al. 2021, 'Topological phase transition in an all-optical exciton-polariton lattice', Optica, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 1084-1091.
• C. Rupprecht, N. Lundt, M. Wurdack, P. Stepanov, E. Estrecho, M. Richard, E. A. Ostrovskaya, S. Höfling, and C. Schneider, ‘Micro-mechanical assembly and characterization of high-quality Fabry–Pérot microcavities for the integration of two-dimensional materials‘, Appl. Phys. Lett. 118, 103103 (2021)
• E. Estrecho, M. Pieczarka, M. Wurdack, M. Steger, K. West, L. N. Pfeiffer, D. W. Snoke, A. G. Truscott, and E. A. Ostrovskaya, ‘Low-energy collective oscillations and Bogoliubov sound in an exciton-polariton condensate‘, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 075301 (2021)
• M. Wurdack, E. Estrecho, S. Todd, T. Yun, M. Pieczarka, S. K. Earl, J. A. Davis, C. Schneider, A. G. Truscott, and E. A. Ostrovskaya, ‘Motional narrowing, ballistic transport, and trapping of room-temperature exciton polaritons in an atomically-thin semiconductor’, Nat. Commun. 12, 5366 (2021)
• Pieczarka, M & Estrecho, E 2020, 'Bose-Einstein condensation of exciton polaritons - A condensate made of interacting photons', Australian Physics, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 14-19.
• M. Pieczarka, E. Estrecho, M. Boozarjmehr, O. Bleu, M. Steger, K. West, L. N. Pfeiffer, D. W. Snoke, J. Levinsen, M. M. Parish, A. G. Truscott, and E. A. Ostrovskaya, 'Observation of quantum depletion in a non-equilibrium exciton-polariton condensate', Nature Communications, 11, 429 (2020).
• M. Wurdack, T. Yun, E. Estrecho, N. Syed, S. Bhattacharyya, M. Pieczarka, A. Zavabeti, S.-Yu Chen, B. Haas, J. Mueller, Q. Bao, C. Schneider, Y. Lu, M. S. Fuhrer, A. G. Truscott, T. Daeneke, and E. A. Ostrovskaya, 2020, 'Ultrathin Ga203 Glass: A Large-Scale Passivation and Protection Material for Monolayer WS2.', Advanced Materials, 33, 2005732 (2020)
• E. Estrecho, T. Gao, N. Bobrovska, D. Comber-Todd, M. D. Fraser, M. Steger, K. West, L. N. Pfeiffer, J. Levinsen, M. M. Parish, T. C. H. Liew, M. Matuszewski, D. W. Snoke, A. G. Truscott, and E. A. Ostrovskaya, ‘Direct measurement of polariton-polariton interaction strength in the Thomas-Fermi regime of exciton-polariton condensation’, Phys. Rev. B 100, 035306 (2019)
• M. Pieczarka, M. Boozarjmehr, E. Estrecho, Y. Yoon, M. Steger, K. West, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. A. Nelson, D. W. Snoke, A. G. Truscott, and E. A. Ostrovskaya, ‘Effect of optically-induced potential on the energy of trapped exciton-polaritons below the condensation threshold‘, Phys. Rev. B 100, 085301 (2019)
• E. Estrecho, T. Gao, N. Bobrovska, M. D. Fraser, M. Steger, L. Pfeiffer, K. West, T. C. H. Liew, M. Matuszewski, D. W. Snoke, A. G. Truscott, and E. A. Ostrovskaya, 'Single-shot condensation of exciton polaritons and the hole burning effect', Nature Comm., vol. 9, 2944 (2018)
• M. Waldherr , N. Lundt , M. Klaas, S. Betzold , M. Wurdack, V. Baumann, E. Estrecho, A. Nalitov, E. Cherotchenko, H. Cai, E. A. Ostrovskaya, A. Kavokin, S. Tongay, S. Klembt, S. Höfling, C. Schneider ‘Observation of bosonic condensation in an atomically thin crystal embedded in a hybrid MoSe2-GaAs microcavity‘, Nature Comm. 9, 3286 (2018)
• T. Gao, G. Li, E. Estrecho, T. C. H. Liew, D. Comber-Todd, A. Nalitov, M. Steger, K. West, L. Pfeiffer, D. Snoke, A. V. Kavokin, A. G. Truscott, and E. A. Ostrovskaya, 'Chiral Modes at Exceptional Points in Exciton-Polariton Quantum Fluids', Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 065301 (2018)
• T. Gao, O. Egorov, E. Estrecho, K. Winkler, M. Kamp, C. Schneider, S. Höfling, A. G. Truscott, and E. A. Ostrovskaya, ‘Controlled ordering of topological charges in an exciton-polariton chain’, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 225302 (2018)
• E. Estecho, T. Gao, S. Brodbeck, M. Kamp, C. Schneider, S. Höfling, A. G. Truscott, and E. A. Ostrovskaya, ‘Visualising Berry phase and diabolical points in a quantum exciton-polariton billiard‘, Scientific Reports 6, 37653 (2016)
• K. Winkler, O. A. Egorov, I. G. Savenko, X. Ma, E. Estrecho, T. Gao, S. Müller, M. Kamp, T. C. H. Liew, E. A. Ostrovskaya, S. Höfling, C. Schneider 'Collective state transitions of exciton-polaritons loaded into a periodic potential', Physical Review B, vol. 93, no. 12, pp. 121303 (2016).
• T. Gao, E. Estrecho, G. Li, O. A. Egorov, X. Ma, K. Winkler, M. Kamp, C. Schneider, S. Höfling, A. G. Truscott, and E. A. Ostrovskaya, ‘Talbot effect for exciton polaritons‘, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 097403 (2016)
• T. Gao, E. Estrecho, K.Y. Bliokh, T.C.H. Liew, M.D. Fraser, S. Brodbeck, M. Kamp, C. Schneider, S. Höfling, Y. Yamamoto, F. Nori, Y.S. Kivshar, A. Truscott, R. Dall, E.A. Ostrovskaya, 'Observation of non-Hermitian degeneracies in a chaotic exciton-polariton billiard', Nature, vol. 526, no. 7574, pp. 554-558 (2015)

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• Mixing light and matter with complex gauge fields (Primary Investigator)