Publications

2026

Collective Strong Coupling of Thermal Atoms to Integrated Microring Resonators,  X. Cheng, B. Shnirman, A. Köpf, G. Yang, H. X. Tang, H. Alaeian, T. Pfau, and Robert Löw [https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24509]

2025

Attosecond Control of Squeezed Light, R. Zimmerman, S. Kumar, S. Kant Tiwari, E. Liu, F. Walz, S. Pandey, G. J. Economou II, H. Alaeian, C.-T. Liao, V. Walther, and N. Shivaram [https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17046]

Phase Transitions in Open Dicke Model: a degenerate perturbation theory approach, W. Tong, H. Alaeian, and F. Robicheaux, Phys. Rev. A 112, 053721 (2025) [publisher's link] [https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12696]

Collective Enhancement of Photon Blockade via Two-Photon Interactions, L. Dong, A. Jayesh Shah, P. Kirton, H. Alaeian, and S. Felicetti [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.11506]

Dissipative Phase Transitions in the Two-Photon Dicke Model, A. J. Shah, P. Kirton, S. Felicetti, and H. Alaeian, Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 173602 (2025) [publisher's link] [https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14271] [Purdue News]

Cooperative Effects in Thin Dielectric Layers: Long-Range Dicke Superradiance, A. Kundu, R. Trivedi, A. Javadi, and H. Alaeian, Phys. Rev. Research 7, 043031 (2025) [publisher's link] [https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14913]

Topology-Optimized Dielectric Cavities for Enhanced Excitonic Light Emission from WSe2, O. Matthiessen, B. Triplett, O. Yesilyurt, D. Cassara, K. Pagadala, M. M. Yang, A. E. Llacsahuanga Allcca, H. Ather, C. Fruhling, A. Bharatbhai Solanki, Y. P. Chen, H. Alaeian, A. V. Kildishev, V. M. Shalaev, F. Capasso, A. Boltasseva, V. Mkhitaryan [https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26503]

Anticipating Decoherence: a Predictive Framework for Enhancing Coherence in Quantum Emitters, P. Maan, Y. Chen, S. Borneman, B. Lawrie, A. Puretzky, H. Alaeian, A. Boltasseva, V. M. Shalaev, A. V. Kildishev [https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02638]

Engineering nonlinear activation functions for all-optical neural networks via quantum interference, X. Xu, R. Canora, H. Alaeian*, and S. Du*, Opt. Express 33, 52458-52476 (2025) [publisher's link] [https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04009]

Single-photon Generation: Materials, Techniques, and the Rydberg Exciton Frontier, A. Keni, K. Barua, K. Heshami, A. Javadi, and H. Alaeian, Opt. Mater. Express 15(4), 626-643 (2025) [publisher's link] (Editor's Pick)

Bottom-up Fabrication of 2D Rydberg Exciton Arrays in Cuprous Oxide, K. Barua, S. Peana, A. Deepak Keni, V. Mkhitaryan, V. Shalaev, Y. P. Chen, A. Boltasseva, and H. Alaeian, Commun Mater 6, 21 (2025) [publisher's link]

2024

Dissipative Phase Transitions in the Two-Photon Dicke Model, A. J. Shah, P. Kirton, S. Felicetti, and H. Alaeian [https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14271]

Single-photon Generation: Materials, Techniques, and the Rydberg Exciton Frontier, A. Keni, K. Barua, K. Heshami, A. Javadi, and H. Alaeian [https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01573]

Bottom-up Fabrication of 2D Rydberg Exciton Arrays in Cuprous Oxide, K. Barua, S. Peana, A. Deepak Keni, V. Mkhitaryan, V. Shalaev, Y. P. Chen, A. Boltasseva, and H. Alaeian [https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03880]

The rise and fall of patterns in driven-dissipative Rydberg polaritons, H. Alaeian and V. Walther, Phys. Rev. Research 6, 033065 (2024) [publisher's link] 

Reducing system dimensionality with long-range collective dipole-dipole interactions, A. K. Boddeti, Y. Wang, X. G. Juarez, A. Boltasseva, T. W. Odom, V. Shalaev, H. Alaeian, and Z. Jacob, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 173803 (2024) [publisher's link] [Purdue News]
 
Noise-resilient phase transitions and limit-cycles in coupled Kerr oscillators, H. Alaeian, M. Soriente, K. Najafi, and S. F. Yelin, New J. Phys. 26, 023021 (2024) [publisher's link] 
 
Manipulating the Dipolar Interactions and Cooperative Effects in Confined Geometries, H. Alaeian, A. Skljarow, S. Scheel, T. Pfau, and R. Löw, New J. Phys 26, 055001 (2024) [publisher's link] [https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08831]

2023

The rise and fall of patterns in driven-dissipative Rydberg polaritons, H. Alaeian and V. Walther [https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.15091]

Highly-Excited Rydberg Excitons in Synthetic Thin-Film Cuprous Oxide, J. DeLange, K. Barua, A. Sundar Paul, H. Ohadi, V. Zwiller, S. Steinhauer, and H. Alaeian, Sci. Rep. 13, 16881 (2023) [publisher's link]