Alexey Kavokin
Alexey Kavokin is a Russian (also holding French citizenship) theoretical physicist, with a sui generis approach and understanding of the field. He is a major expert in the physics of polaritons where he has pioneered concepts such as the optical spin Hall effect, bosonic cascades, polariton-mediated superconductivity and polariton qubits. He played a key role in the development of polariton condensation and in the theory of polariton spin. He is also a highly skilled diplomat, great leader of teams of arbitrary sizes, scientific events organizer, book writer, amateur of French gastronomy and wine, erudite in several branches of the humanities, free-thinking intellectual with far-reaching views and you might get lucky to hear him sing original guitar songs where you can even pop up as a character. The list does not end there.
Alexey was my Ph. D director. He is the most remarkable person that I have ever met. I have always tried to keep a link to some of his countless activities, since this is the closest one can get to trade one's life with that of a character from a novel. He is one of Elena & I's life-changing characters, for both the amount but also magnitudes of changes he brought to our destiny. I regard one of my major insights in life as having turned to him when seeking a Ph. D director, although trained as a corpuscular physics and with little a priori interest for Alexey's condensed matter topic. There was something obvious to me, however, that he was a glowing gem cast in a basically inert rock (that was the Université Blaise Pascal). He is infinitely surprising by the definition that, however high you set the expectation, he'll eventually come to surprise you.
Joint works
In addition to our monumental Microcavities, I have several works in collaboration with him:
- Polariton laser and polariton superfluidity in microcavities. A. Kavokin, G. Malpuech and F. P. Laussy in Phys. Lett. A 306:187 (2003).
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- Dynamical Theory of Polariton Amplifiers. Yu. G. Rubo, F. P. Laussy, G. Malpuech, A. Kavokin and P. Bigenwald in Phys. Rev. Lett. 91:156403 (2003).
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- Polariton laser: thermodynamics and quantum kinetic theory. G. Malpuech, Y. G. Rubo, F. P. Laussy, P. Bigenwald and A. V. Kavokin in Semicond. Sci. Technol. 18:S395 (2003).
- Spontaneous coherence buildup in a polariton laser. F. P. Laussy, G. Malpuech and A. Kavokin in Phys. Stat. Sol. C 1:1339 (2004).
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- Spontaneous Coherence Buildup in a Polariton Laser. F. P. Laussy, G. Malpuech, A. Kavokin and P. Bigenwald in Phys. Rev. Lett. 93:016402 (2004).
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- Effects of Bose-Einstein condensation of exciton polaritons in microcavities on the polarization of emitted light. F. P. Laussy, I. A. Shelykh, G. Malpuech and A. Kavokin in Phys. Rev. B 73:035315 (2006).
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- Exciton-Polariton Mediated Superconductivity. F. P. Laussy, A. V. Kavokin and I. A. Shelykh in Phys. Rev. Lett. 104:106402 (2010).
- Superconductivity with excitons and polaritons: review and extension. F. P. Laussy, T. Taylor, I. A. Shelykh and A. V. Kavokin in J. Nanophoton. 6:064502 (2012).
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- Excitons in crystals. F. P. Laussy and A. Kavokin in Encycl. Cond. Mat. Phys. 3:706 (2024).