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August 2025: News & Views on Nature, commenting on a recent experiment that challenges the Bohmian interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (together with Prof Alessandro Fedrizzi): link here. The original article of the optical experiment by Sharoglazova et al is here.
March 2025: Breaking news! A deep analysis of spatio-spectral optical fission in subwavelength time-varying layers has been published on Nature Photonics. In collaboration with Marcello Ferrera and his group. Check the paper here
see press release here
April 2019: Breaking news! We have found a "magic formula" based on the Euler characteristic that is able to find in a straightforward manner the Hawking temperature for all black holes in physics! Check the preprint here
see the BBC interview and article here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-47773553
January 2019: Breaking news! Our debut on pure Quantum Gravity, in collaboration with Carlo Trugenberger. Check the preprint
August 2018: Solitons = Black holes ! We have found deep connections between solitons in 2D and black holes. Now easy to calculate Hawking temperature and entropy for a large variety of solitons. Check the preprint here
August 2017: The SUSY method in 1D quantum mechanics has been extended to nonlinear Hamiltonians, allowing to find SUSY-partner equations of the NLSE! Check the preprint here
June 2017: Breaking news! We have found a new super-accurate formulation of the Ikeda map based on coupled Lugiato-Lefever! Check the preprint here (thanks to Miro, Stuart and Stephane for helping!)
March 2017: Giant nonlinearities in type-II supercondutors! see preprint here
January 2017: Breaking news! We found theoretically and experimentally (in collaboration with Tom Rogers in Daniele Faccio's group) a new type of resonant radiation emitted by solitons: see PRL paper here
October 2016: Rogue waves as interplay between Anderson localization and horizon effects! see preprint here
August 2016: Breaking news! We have discovered that ALL integrable solitons evaporate emitting Hawking-like quantum radiation! See the preprint here
June 2016: New experiments on the non-perturbative nonlinear optics of graphene! here
May 2016: We discovered a novel type of symmetry breaking in graphene, leading to new nonlinear effects! here
July 2015: Review paper on the soliton dynamics in hollow-core PCFs in presence of ionization and Raman gases, here
June 2015: Formulation of a new `extended' Lugiato-Lefever equation in cavities - showing negative frequency effects! here, accepted by PRL!
Read the SPIE Newsroom article here
May 2015: Finally explaining why rogue solitons in fibers are rare and why they form, with the Energy Landscape: here
January 2015: We have studied the self-phase modulation of an intense pulse in presence of third-harmonic generation and negative frequency components. Surprisingly, new SPM lobes appear near the pulse, another signature of negative frequencies in nonlinear optics. See the paper here.
January 2015: We have methodically worked out the main ingredients of supercontinuum generation in Raman-gas media. The dynamics strangely resembles the physics of electrons in periodic media subject to an external electric field. See the paper here.