Publications

Submitted

3. Nicholas Rivera, Jamison Sloan, Ido Kaminer, and Marin Soljačić. “Fock lasers based on deep-strong coupling of light and matter.” arXiv:2111.07010.

2. Nicholas Rivera, Jamison Sloan, Yannick Salamin, and Marin Soljačić. “Macroscopic condensation of photon noise in sharply nonlinear dissipative systems.” arXiv:2111.03099.

1. Andrea Pizzi, Alexey Gorlach, Nicholas Rivera, Andreas Nunnenkamp, and Ido Kaminer. “Quantum optics in strongly-driven many-body systems.”

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Published (* denotes equal contribution)

37. Charles Roques-Carmes*, Nicholas Rivera*, Ali Ghorashi, Steven Kooi, Yi Yang, Zin Lin, Justin Beroz, Aviram Massuda, Jamison Sloan, Nicolas Romeo, John Joannopoulos, Ido Kaminer, Steven Johnson, and Marin Soljačić. “A general framework for scintillation in nanophotonics.” Science (2022).

36. Jamison Sloan, Nicholas Rivera, John Joannopoulos, and Marin Soljačić. “Two-photon emission from superluminal and accelerating index perturbations.” Nature Physics (2021).

35. Aviv Karnieli, Nicholas Rivera, Ady Arie, and Ido Kaminer. “Super- and subradiance by entangled free particles.” Physical Review Letters (2021).

34. Jamison Sloan, Nicholas Rivera, John Joannopoulos, and Marin Soljačić. “Casimir light in dispersive nanophotonics.” Physical Review Letters (2021).

33. Ron Ruimy, Alexey Gorlach, Chen Mechel, Nicholas Rivera, and Ido Kaminer. “Toward Atomic-Resolution Quantum Measurements with Coherently Shaped Free Electrons.” Physical Review Letters (2021).

32. Aviv Karnieli, Nicholas Rivera, Ady Arie, and Ido Kaminer. “The coherence of light is fundamentally tied to the quantum coherence of the emitting particles.” Science Advances (2021)

31. Sutapa Ghosh, Nicholas Rivera, Gadi Eisenstein, and Ido Kaminer. “Creating heralded hyper-entangled photons using Rydberg atoms.” Light: Science & Applications. (2021)

30. L. J. Wong, Nicholas Rivera, Chitraang Murdia, Thomas Christensen, John Joannopoulos, Marin Soljačić, and Ido Kaminer. “Control of quantum electrodynamical processes by shaping electron wavepackets.” Nature Communications (2021).

29. Adi Ben-Hayun, Ori Reinhardt, Jonathan Nemirovsky, Aviv Karnieli, Nicholas Rivera, and Ido Kaminer. “Shaping quantum photonic states using free electrons“. Science Advances (2021).

28. Chen Mechel, Yaniv Kurman, Aviv Karnieli, Nicholas Rivera, Ady Arie, and Ido Kaminer. “Quantum correlations in electron microscopy“. Optica (2021).

27. Nicholas Rivera and Ido Kaminer. “Light-matter interactions with photonic quasiparticles. “Nature Reviews Physics (2020). [Review].

  • Featured on cover of October 2020 issue (image credit: Yaniv Kurman, Moriel Hoffman & Noa Nuni).

26. Alexey Gorlach, Ofer Neufeld, Nicholas Rivera, Oren Cohen, and Ido Kaminer. “On the quantum optical nature of high-harmonic generation.” Nature Communications (2020).

25. Ravishankar Sundararaman, Thomas Christensen, Yuan Ping, Nicholas Rivera, John D. Joannopoulos, and Marin Soljačić, and Prineha Narang. “Plasmonics in argentene.” Physical Review Materials (2020).

24. Alexey Gorlach, Nicholas Rivera, and Ido Kaminer. “Making materials mimic each other.” [Viewpoint article]. Physics (2020).

23. Sophie Fisher, Charles-Roques Carmes, Nicholas Rivera, Liang Jie Wong, Ido Kaminer, and Marin Soljačić. “Monochromatic X-ray source based on scattering from a magnetic nanoundulator.” ACS Photonics (2020).

22. P. A. D. Gonçalves, Thomas Christensen, Nicholas Rivera, Antti-Pekka Jauho, N. Asger Mortensen, and Marin Soljačić, “Plasmon-emitter interactions at the nanoscale.” Nature Communications (2020).

21. Jamison Sloan*, Nicholas Rivera*, John D. Joannopoulos, Ido Kaminer, and Marin Soljačić. “Controlling spins with surface magnon polaritons.” Physical Review B (2019).

20. Nicholas Rivera, Liang Jie Wong, John D. Joannopoulos, Marin Soljačić, and Ido Kaminer. “Light emission based on nanophotonic vacuum forces.” Nature Physics (2019).

  • See PhysicsWorld article for popular summary.
  • Supplementary materials can be found here.

19. Rumen Dangovski, Nicholas Rivera, Marin Soljačić, and Ido Kaminer. “Shaping long-lived electron wavepackets for customizable optical spectra.” Optica (2019).

18. Siyuan Dai, Wenjing Fang, Nicholas Rivera, Yijing Stehle, Bor-yuan Jiang, Roland Yingjie Tay, Chris Ciccarino, Qiong Ma, Daniel Rodan-Legrain, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Edwin Hang Tong Teo, Michael Fogler, Prineha Narang, Jing Kong, and Dmitri Basov. “Phonon-polaritons in monolayers of hexagonal boron nitride.” Advanced Materials (2019).

17. Nicholas Rivera, Johannes Flick, and Prineha Narang. “Variational theory of non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics.” Physical Review Letters (2019).

16. Nicholas Rivera, Thomas Christensen, and Prineha Narang. “Phonon polaritonics in two-dimensional materials.” Nano Letters (2019).

15. Nicholas Rivera, Liang Jie Wong, Marin Soljačić, and Ido Kaminer. “Ultrafast multiharmonic plasmon generation by optically dressed electrons.” Physical Review Letters 122.5 (2019): 053901.

14. Charles Roques-Carmes, Nicholas Rivera, John D. Joannopoulos, Marin Soljačić, and Ido Kaminer. “Nonperturbative quantum electrodynamics in the Cherenkov effect.” Physical Review X 8.4 (2018): 041013.

13. Johannes Flick, Nicholas Rivera, and Prineha Narang. “Strong light-matter coupling in quantum chemistry and quantum photonics.” Nanophotonics 7.9 (2018): 1479-1501. [Review Article]

12. Gilles Rosolen, Liang Jie Wong, Nicholas Rivera, Bjorn Maes, Marin Soljačić, and Ido Kaminer. “Metasurface-based multi-harmonic free-electron light source.” Light: Science & Applications 7.1 (2018): 64.

11. Francisco Machado*, Nicholas Rivera*, Hrvoje Buljan, Marin Soljačić, and Ido Kaminer. “Shaping polaritons to reshape selection rules.” ACS Photonics 5.8 (2018): 3064-3072.

10. Yaniv Kurman, Nicholas Rivera, Thomas Christensen, Shai Tsesses, Meir Orenstein, John D. Joannopoulos, Marin Soljačić , and Ido Kaminer. “Control of semiconductor emitter frequency by increasing polariton momenta.” Nature Photonics 12.7 (2018): 423.

9. Josué J. López, Antonio Ambrosio, Siyuan Dai, Chuong Huynh, David C. Bell, Xiao Lin, Nicholas Rivera, Shengxi Huang, Qiong Ma, Soeren Eyhusen, Ido Kaminer, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jing Kong, Dmitri N. Basov, Pablo Jarillo‐Herrero, and Marin Soljačić. “Large photothermal effect in sub‐40 nm h‐BN nanostructures patterned via high‐resolution ion beam.” Small 14.22 (2018): 1800072.

8. Jamison Sloan, Nicholas Rivera, Marin Soljačić, and Ido Kaminer. “Tunable UV-emitters through graphene plasmonics.” Nano Letters 18.1 (2017): 308-313.

7. Nicholas Rivera, Gilles Rosolen, John D. Joannopoulos, Ido Kaminer, and Marin Soljačić. “Making two-photon processes dominate one-photon processes using mid-IR phonon polaritons.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114.52 (2017): 13607-13612.

6. Georgia T. Papadakis, Prineha Narang, Ravishankar Sundararaman, Nicholas Rivera, Hrvoje Buljan, Nader Engheta, and Marin Soljačić. “Ultralight angstrom-scale optimal optical reflectors.” ACS Photonics 5.2 (2017): 384-389.

5. Cyuan-Han Chang, Nicholas Rivera, John D. Joannopoulos, Marin Soljačić, and Ido Kaminer. “Constructing “designer atoms” via resonant graphene-induced Lamb shifts.” ACS Photonics 4.12 (2017): 3098-3105.

4. Xiao Lin*, Yi Yang*, Nicholas Rivera, Josue Lopez, Yichen Shen, Ido Kaminer, Hongsheng Chen, Baile Zhang, John D. Joannopoulos, and Marin Soljačić. “All-angle negative refraction of highly squeezed plasmon and phonon polaritons in graphene–boron nitride heterostructures.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114.26 (2017): 6717-6721.

3. Xiao Lin, Nicholas Rivera, Josue Lopez, Ido Kaminer, Hongsheng Chen, and Marin Soljačić. “Tailoring the energy distribution and loss of 2D plasmons.” New Journal of Physics 18.10 (2016): 105007.

2. Nicholas Rivera, Chia Wei Hsu, Bo Zhen, Hrvoje Buljan, John D. Joannopoulos, and Marin Soljačić. “Controlling directionality and dimensionality of radiation by perturbing separable bound states in the continuum.” Scientific Reports 6 (2016): 33394.

1. Nicholas Rivera*, Ido Kaminer*, Bo Zhen, John D. Joannopoulos, and Marin Soljačić. “Shrinking light to allow forbidden transitions on the atomic scale.” Science 353.6296 (2016): 263-269.

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Invited Talks and Seminars

15. Nicholas Rivera. Harvard University Condensed Matter Physics Seminar. Cambridge, MA (2021) (recording).

14. Nicholas Rivera. Boston University Condensed Matter Seminar. Boston, MA (2021).

13. Nicholas Rivera. “Controlling light emission with photonic quasiparticles.” Bar-Ilan University Optics Seminar (2021) (recording).

12. Nicholas Rivera, Jamison Sloan, Ido Kaminer, Marin and Soljačić. “The Fock-state laser: macroscopic quantum states of light based on deep strong light-matter coupling.” Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, San Jose, CA (2021) [Upgraded from contributed talk.] (recording)

11. Nicholas Rivera, Charles Roques-Carmes, Ido Kaminer, and Marin Soljačić. “Toward nanophotonic free electron lasers.” Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, San Jose, CA (2020) [Upgraded from contributed talk.] (recording)

10. “Polaritonic probes of nonlocal and nonlinear electrodynamics.” MTL Graphene and 2D Materials Conference, Cambridge, MA (2018).

9. “Light-matter interactions in polar dielectrics.” Quantum Scanning Probe Microscopy of 2D Materials. Harvard, Cambridge, MA (2018).

8. “Quantum optics at the surface of a polaritonic medium.” Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL. (2018).

7. “Towards polariton-enabled spectroscopy and light sources.” Gordon Research Seminar, Newry ME (2018).

6. “QED at the surface of a polaritonic medium.” Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics Seminar, Harvard, Cambridge, MA (2018).

5. “QED at the surface of a polaritonic medium.” Technion Optics Seminar, Haifa, Israel (2018).

4. “Light-matter interactions in extreme refractive index 2D nanophotonics.” MTL Graphene and 2D Materials Conference, Cambridge, MA (2017).

3. “Making the forbidden allowed: new approaches to light emission.” March Meeting (APS)., New Orleans, LA (2017). [LeRoy Apker Award talk.]

2. Nicholas Rivera, Ido Kaminer, and Marin Soljačić. “Turning forbidden transitions into dominant transitions: towards efficient sources of entangled light.” Nanometa (EPS). Seefeld, Austria (2017). [Upgraded from contributed talk]

1. “Making the forbidden allowed: polariton-based approaches to light emission and absorption.” Workshop on Light-Matter Interaction and Excited State Dynamics (Northrop Grumman), Redondo Beach, CA (2016).

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Patents

6. Nanophotonic Scintillators for High-Energy Particles Detection, Imaging, and Spectroscopy, U. S. Provisional Patent.

5. Methods and apparatuses for enhancing scintillation with optical nanostructures for scintillators, LEDs, and laser sources, U.S. Provisional Patent.

4. Methods and Apparatus to Generate Macroscopic Fock and other Sub-Poissonian States of Radiation at optical frequencies, U.S. Provisional Patent.

3. Methods and Apparatus to Generate Macroscopic Fock and other Sub-Poissonian States of Radiation at microwave frequencies, U.S. Provisional Patent.

2. Efficient Smith-Purcell Radiation Sources and Enhancement Methods, U.S. Patent 10505334, 2019.

1. Apparatus and Methods for Spectroscopy and Broadband Light Emission Using Two-Dimensional Plasmon Fields, U.S. Patent 10,352,856, 2019