Dr Niclas Westerberg
- Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellow (Physics & Astronomy)
telephone:
01413304268
email:
Niclas.Westerberg@glasgow.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9876-5858Research interests
I study the physics of light, matter, and their mutual interactions with the aim of benefiting society. My expertise is broad, with emphasis towards light-matter interactions, quantum electrodynamics, atomic/molecular physics, and metrology, but it also includes high-energy physics and gravity.
researcherID: AAH-3129-2021
Publications
2024
Wang, J. , Svensson, S. J., Clark, T. W., Chen, Y., Al Khafaji, M. A., Gao, H., Westerberg, N. and Franke-Arnold, S. (2024) Measuring the optical concurrence of vector beams with an atomic-state interferometer. Physical Review Letters, 132, 193803. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.193803) (PMID:38804954)
2023
Lyons, A. , Zickus, V., Alvarez-Mendoza, R., Triggiani, D., Tamma, V., Westerberg, N. , Tassieri, M. and Faccio, D. (2023) Fluorescence lifetime Hong-Ou-Mandel sensing. Nature Communications, 14, 8005. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-43868-x) (PMID:38049423) (PMCID:PMC10696080)
Westerberg, N. and Bennett, R. (2023) Perturbative light–matter interactions; from first principles to inverse design. Physics Reports, 1026, pp. 1-63. (doi: 10.1016/j.physrep.2023.07.005)
2022
Ndagano, B. , Defienne, H. , Branford, D., Shah, Y. D. , Lyons, A. , Westerberg, N. , Gauger, E. M. and Faccio, D. (2022) Quantum microscopy based on Hong-Ou-Mandel interference. Nature Photonics, 16(5), pp. 384-389. (doi: 10.1038/s41566-022-00980-6)
Westerberg, N. , Messinger, A. and Barnett, S. M. (2022) Duality, decay rates, and local-field models in macroscopic QED. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 105(5), 053704. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.105.053704)
Braidotti, M. C., Prizia, R., Maitland-Warne, C., Marino, F., Prain, A., Starshynov, I. , Westerberg, N. , Wright, E. M. and Faccio, D. (2022) Measurement of Penrose superradiance in a photon superfluid. Physical Review Letters, 128, 013901. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.013901)
2021
Scott, H., Branford, D., Westerberg, N. , Leach, J. and Gauger, E. M. (2021) Noise limits on two-photon interferometric sensing. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 104(5), 053704. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.104.053704)
Rouse, D. M., Lovett, B. W., Gauger, E. M. and Westerberg, N. (2021) Avoiding gauge ambiguities in cavity quantum electrodynamics. Scientific Reports, 11, 4281. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-83214-z) (PMID:33608609) (PMCID:PMC7896096)
2020
Scott, H., Branford, D., Westerberg, N. , Leach, J. and Gauger, E. M. (2020) Beyond coincidence in Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 102(3), 033714. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.102.033714)
Messinger, A., Westerberg, N. and Barnett, S. M. (2020) Spontaneous emission in anisotropic dielectrics. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 102, 013721. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.102.013721)
Harnchaiwat, N., Zhu, F., Westerberg, N. , Gauger, E. and Leach, J. (2020) Tracking the polarisation state of light via Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry. Optics Express, 28(2), pp. 2210-2220. (doi: 10.1364/OE.382622) (PMID:32121916)
Harnchaiwat, N., Zhu, F., Westerberg, N. , Gauger, E. and Leach, J. (2020) Tracking the polarisation state of light via Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry. Optics Express, 28(2), pp. 2210-2220. (doi: 10.1364/oe.382622)
Valentí-Rojas, G., Westerberg, N. and Öhberg, P. (2020) Synthetic flux attachment. Physical Review Research, 2, 033453. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033453)
2019
Johnstone, D., Westerberg, N. , Duncan, C. W. and Öhberg, P. (2019) Staggered ground states in an optical lattice. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 100(4), 043614. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.043614)
Vezzoli, S., Mussot, A., Westerberg, N. , Kudlinski, A., Dinparasti Saleh, H., Prain, A., Biancalana, F., Lantz, E. and Faccio, D. (2019) Optical analogue of the dynamical Casimir effect in a dispersion-oscillating fibre. Communications Physics, 2, 84. (doi: 10.1038/s42005-019-0183-z)
Westerberg, N. , Prain, A., Faccio, D. and Öhberg, P. (2019) Vacuum radiation and frequency-mixing in linear light-matter systems. Journal of Physics Communications, 3(6), 065012. (doi: 10.1088/2399-6528/ab2ab2)
Butera, S. , Westerberg, N. , Faccio, D. and Öhberg, P. (2019) Curved spacetime from interacting gauge theories. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 36(3), 034002. (doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/aaf9f6)
2018
Westerberg, N. , Wilson, K. E., Duncan, C. W., Faccio, D. , Wright, E. M., Öhberg, P. and Valiente, M. (2018) Self-bound droplets of light with orbital angular momentum. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 98(5), 053835. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.98.053835)
Wilson, K. E., Westerberg, N. , Valiente, M., Duncan, C. W., Wright, E. M., Öhberg, P. and Faccio, D. (2018) Observation of photon droplets and their dynamics. Physical Review Letters, 121(13), 133903. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.133903)
Duncan, C. W., Ross, C., Westerberg, N. , Valiente, M., Schroers, B. J. and Öhberg, P. (2018) Linked and knotted synthetic magnetic fields. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 99(6), 063613. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.99.063613)
Lyons, A. , Roger, T., Westerberg, N. , Vezzoli, S., Maitland, C., Leach, J., Padgett, M. and Faccio, D. (2018) How fast is a twisted photon? Optica, 5(6), pp. 682-686. (doi: 10.1364/OPTICA.5.000682)
2017
Faccio, D. , Prain, A., Vezzoli, S., Thomas, R. and Westerberg, N. (2017) Nonlinear and Time-dependent Epsilon-Near-Zero Materials. In: Nonlinear Optics 2017, Waikoloa, HI, USA, 17-21 July 2017, ISBN 9780960038060 (doi: 10.1364/NLO.2017.NW1A.1)
Luna, A., Monteiro, R., Nicholson, I., Ochirov, A., O’Connell, D., Westerberg, N. and White, C. D. (2017) Perturbative spacetimes from Yang-Mills theory. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(4), 69. (doi: 10.1007/JHEP04(2017)069)
Prain, A., Vezzoli, S., Westerberg, N. , Roger, T. and Faccio, D. (2017) Spontaneous photon production in time-dependent epsilon-near-zero materials. Physical Review Letters, 118(13), 133904. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.133904) (PMID:28409947)
Petev, M., Westerberg, N. , Rubino, E., Moss, D., Couairon, A., Légaré, F., Morandotti, R., Faccio, D. and Clerici, M. (2017) Phase-insensitive scattering of terahertz radiation. Photonics Spectra, 4(1), 7. (doi: 10.3390/photonics4010007)
Wilson, K., Westerberg, N. , Valiente, M., Duncan, C., Wright, E., Öhberg, P. and Faccio, D. (2017) Quantum Droplets of Light in the Presence of Synthetic Magnetic Fields. In: 2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC), Munich, Germany, 25-29 Jun 2017, ISBN 9781509067367 (doi: 10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2017.8087537)
2016
Roger, T., Maitland, C., Wilson, K., Westerberg, N. , Vocke, D., Wright, E. M. and Faccio, D. (2016) Optical analogues of the Newton–Schrödinger equation and boson star evolution. Nature Communications, 7, 13492. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms13492) (PMID:27841261) (PMCID:PMC5114577)
Westerberg, N. , Maitland, C., Faccio, D. , Wilson, K., Öhberg, P. and Wright, E.M. (2016) Synthetic magnetism for photon fluids. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 94(2), 023805. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.94.023805)
2015
Clerici, M. , Petev, M., Westerberg, N. , Rubino, E., Moss, D., Couairon, A., Légaré, F., Morandotti, R. and Faccio, D. (2015) Stimulated Emission of Dispersive Waves. In: European Quantum Electronics Conference, Munich, Germany, 21–25 June 2015, ISBN 9781467374750
2014
Rao, S. M., Heitz, J. J. F., Roger, T., Westerberg, N. and Faccio, D. (2014) Coherent control of light interaction with graphene. Optics Letters, 39(18), pp. 5345-5347. (doi: 10.1364/OL.39.005345) (PMID:26466267)
Westerberg, N. , Cacciatori, S., Belgiorno, F., Piazza, F. D. and Faccio, D. (2014) Experimental quantum cosmology in time-dependent optical media. New Journal of Physics, 16(7), 075003. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/16/7/075003)
Roger, T., Heitz, J. J.F., Westerberg, N. , Gariepy, G., Bolduc, E., Jeffers, J., Leach, J. and Faccio, D. (2014) Coherent Modulation of Light with Graphene. In: 2014 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2014, San Jose, U.S., 8-13 June 2014, ISBN 9781557529992
2013
Petev, M., Westerberg, N. , Moss, D., Rubino, E., Rimoldi, C., Cacciatori, S.L., Belgiorno, F. and Faccio, D. (2013) Blackbody emission from light interacting with an effective moving dispersive medium. Physical Review Letters, 111(4), 043902. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.043902)
Conforti, M., Westerberg, N. , Baronio, F., Trillo, S. and Faccio, D. (2013) Negative-frequency dispersive wave generation in quadratic media. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 88(1), 013829. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.88.013829)
Conforti, M., Westerberg, N. , Baronio, F., Trillo, S. and Faccio, D. (2013) Negative-Frequency Resonant Radiation in Quadratic Media. In: International Quantum Electronics Conference 2013, Munich, Germany, 12-16 May 2013, IF_P_4. ISBN 9781479905942 (doi: 10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6801803)
Articles
Wang, J. , Svensson, S. J., Clark, T. W., Chen, Y., Al Khafaji, M. A., Gao, H., Westerberg, N. and Franke-Arnold, S. (2024) Measuring the optical concurrence of vector beams with an atomic-state interferometer. Physical Review Letters, 132, 193803. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.193803) (PMID:38804954)
Lyons, A. , Zickus, V., Alvarez-Mendoza, R., Triggiani, D., Tamma, V., Westerberg, N. , Tassieri, M. and Faccio, D. (2023) Fluorescence lifetime Hong-Ou-Mandel sensing. Nature Communications, 14, 8005. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-43868-x) (PMID:38049423) (PMCID:PMC10696080)
Westerberg, N. and Bennett, R. (2023) Perturbative light–matter interactions; from first principles to inverse design. Physics Reports, 1026, pp. 1-63. (doi: 10.1016/j.physrep.2023.07.005)
Ndagano, B. , Defienne, H. , Branford, D., Shah, Y. D. , Lyons, A. , Westerberg, N. , Gauger, E. M. and Faccio, D. (2022) Quantum microscopy based on Hong-Ou-Mandel interference. Nature Photonics, 16(5), pp. 384-389. (doi: 10.1038/s41566-022-00980-6)
Westerberg, N. , Messinger, A. and Barnett, S. M. (2022) Duality, decay rates, and local-field models in macroscopic QED. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 105(5), 053704. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.105.053704)
Braidotti, M. C., Prizia, R., Maitland-Warne, C., Marino, F., Prain, A., Starshynov, I. , Westerberg, N. , Wright, E. M. and Faccio, D. (2022) Measurement of Penrose superradiance in a photon superfluid. Physical Review Letters, 128, 013901. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.013901)
Scott, H., Branford, D., Westerberg, N. , Leach, J. and Gauger, E. M. (2021) Noise limits on two-photon interferometric sensing. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 104(5), 053704. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.104.053704)
Rouse, D. M., Lovett, B. W., Gauger, E. M. and Westerberg, N. (2021) Avoiding gauge ambiguities in cavity quantum electrodynamics. Scientific Reports, 11, 4281. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-83214-z) (PMID:33608609) (PMCID:PMC7896096)
Scott, H., Branford, D., Westerberg, N. , Leach, J. and Gauger, E. M. (2020) Beyond coincidence in Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 102(3), 033714. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.102.033714)
Messinger, A., Westerberg, N. and Barnett, S. M. (2020) Spontaneous emission in anisotropic dielectrics. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 102, 013721. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.102.013721)
Harnchaiwat, N., Zhu, F., Westerberg, N. , Gauger, E. and Leach, J. (2020) Tracking the polarisation state of light via Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry. Optics Express, 28(2), pp. 2210-2220. (doi: 10.1364/OE.382622) (PMID:32121916)
Harnchaiwat, N., Zhu, F., Westerberg, N. , Gauger, E. and Leach, J. (2020) Tracking the polarisation state of light via Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry. Optics Express, 28(2), pp. 2210-2220. (doi: 10.1364/oe.382622)
Valentí-Rojas, G., Westerberg, N. and Öhberg, P. (2020) Synthetic flux attachment. Physical Review Research, 2, 033453. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033453)
Johnstone, D., Westerberg, N. , Duncan, C. W. and Öhberg, P. (2019) Staggered ground states in an optical lattice. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 100(4), 043614. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.043614)
Vezzoli, S., Mussot, A., Westerberg, N. , Kudlinski, A., Dinparasti Saleh, H., Prain, A., Biancalana, F., Lantz, E. and Faccio, D. (2019) Optical analogue of the dynamical Casimir effect in a dispersion-oscillating fibre. Communications Physics, 2, 84. (doi: 10.1038/s42005-019-0183-z)
Westerberg, N. , Prain, A., Faccio, D. and Öhberg, P. (2019) Vacuum radiation and frequency-mixing in linear light-matter systems. Journal of Physics Communications, 3(6), 065012. (doi: 10.1088/2399-6528/ab2ab2)
Butera, S. , Westerberg, N. , Faccio, D. and Öhberg, P. (2019) Curved spacetime from interacting gauge theories. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 36(3), 034002. (doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/aaf9f6)
Westerberg, N. , Wilson, K. E., Duncan, C. W., Faccio, D. , Wright, E. M., Öhberg, P. and Valiente, M. (2018) Self-bound droplets of light with orbital angular momentum. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 98(5), 053835. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.98.053835)
Wilson, K. E., Westerberg, N. , Valiente, M., Duncan, C. W., Wright, E. M., Öhberg, P. and Faccio, D. (2018) Observation of photon droplets and their dynamics. Physical Review Letters, 121(13), 133903. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.133903)
Duncan, C. W., Ross, C., Westerberg, N. , Valiente, M., Schroers, B. J. and Öhberg, P. (2018) Linked and knotted synthetic magnetic fields. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 99(6), 063613. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.99.063613)
Lyons, A. , Roger, T., Westerberg, N. , Vezzoli, S., Maitland, C., Leach, J., Padgett, M. and Faccio, D. (2018) How fast is a twisted photon? Optica, 5(6), pp. 682-686. (doi: 10.1364/OPTICA.5.000682)
Luna, A., Monteiro, R., Nicholson, I., Ochirov, A., O’Connell, D., Westerberg, N. and White, C. D. (2017) Perturbative spacetimes from Yang-Mills theory. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(4), 69. (doi: 10.1007/JHEP04(2017)069)
Prain, A., Vezzoli, S., Westerberg, N. , Roger, T. and Faccio, D. (2017) Spontaneous photon production in time-dependent epsilon-near-zero materials. Physical Review Letters, 118(13), 133904. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.133904) (PMID:28409947)
Petev, M., Westerberg, N. , Rubino, E., Moss, D., Couairon, A., Légaré, F., Morandotti, R., Faccio, D. and Clerici, M. (2017) Phase-insensitive scattering of terahertz radiation. Photonics Spectra, 4(1), 7. (doi: 10.3390/photonics4010007)
Roger, T., Maitland, C., Wilson, K., Westerberg, N. , Vocke, D., Wright, E. M. and Faccio, D. (2016) Optical analogues of the Newton–Schrödinger equation and boson star evolution. Nature Communications, 7, 13492. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms13492) (PMID:27841261) (PMCID:PMC5114577)
Westerberg, N. , Maitland, C., Faccio, D. , Wilson, K., Öhberg, P. and Wright, E.M. (2016) Synthetic magnetism for photon fluids. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 94(2), 023805. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.94.023805)
Rao, S. M., Heitz, J. J. F., Roger, T., Westerberg, N. and Faccio, D. (2014) Coherent control of light interaction with graphene. Optics Letters, 39(18), pp. 5345-5347. (doi: 10.1364/OL.39.005345) (PMID:26466267)
Westerberg, N. , Cacciatori, S., Belgiorno, F., Piazza, F. D. and Faccio, D. (2014) Experimental quantum cosmology in time-dependent optical media. New Journal of Physics, 16(7), 075003. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/16/7/075003)
Petev, M., Westerberg, N. , Moss, D., Rubino, E., Rimoldi, C., Cacciatori, S.L., Belgiorno, F. and Faccio, D. (2013) Blackbody emission from light interacting with an effective moving dispersive medium. Physical Review Letters, 111(4), 043902. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.043902)
Conforti, M., Westerberg, N. , Baronio, F., Trillo, S. and Faccio, D. (2013) Negative-frequency dispersive wave generation in quadratic media. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 88(1), 013829. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.88.013829)
Conference Proceedings
Faccio, D. , Prain, A., Vezzoli, S., Thomas, R. and Westerberg, N. (2017) Nonlinear and Time-dependent Epsilon-Near-Zero Materials. In: Nonlinear Optics 2017, Waikoloa, HI, USA, 17-21 July 2017, ISBN 9780960038060 (doi: 10.1364/NLO.2017.NW1A.1)
Wilson, K., Westerberg, N. , Valiente, M., Duncan, C., Wright, E., Öhberg, P. and Faccio, D. (2017) Quantum Droplets of Light in the Presence of Synthetic Magnetic Fields. In: 2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC), Munich, Germany, 25-29 Jun 2017, ISBN 9781509067367 (doi: 10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2017.8087537)
Clerici, M. , Petev, M., Westerberg, N. , Rubino, E., Moss, D., Couairon, A., Légaré, F., Morandotti, R. and Faccio, D. (2015) Stimulated Emission of Dispersive Waves. In: European Quantum Electronics Conference, Munich, Germany, 21–25 June 2015, ISBN 9781467374750
Roger, T., Heitz, J. J.F., Westerberg, N. , Gariepy, G., Bolduc, E., Jeffers, J., Leach, J. and Faccio, D. (2014) Coherent Modulation of Light with Graphene. In: 2014 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2014, San Jose, U.S., 8-13 June 2014, ISBN 9781557529992
Conforti, M., Westerberg, N. , Baronio, F., Trillo, S. and Faccio, D. (2013) Negative-Frequency Resonant Radiation in Quadratic Media. In: International Quantum Electronics Conference 2013, Munich, Germany, 12-16 May 2013, IF_P_4. ISBN 9781479905942 (doi: 10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6801803)
Teaching
Workshops
- Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers, Discussion Class SUPA
Research datasets
2023
Lyons, A. , Zickus, V., Alvarez Mendoza, R., Triggiani, D., Tamma, V., Westerberg, N. , Tassieri, M. and Faccio, D. (2023) Fluorescence Lifetime Hong-Ou-Mandel Sensing. [Data Collection]
2021
Braidotti, M. C., Prizia, R., Maitland, C., Marino, F., Prain, A., Starshynov, I. , Westerberg, N. , Wright, E. and Faccio, D. (2021) Measurement of Penrose superradiance in a photon superfluid. [Data Collection]
