Mon, 1 Jan 2024 [53] arXiv:2312.17464 [pdf, ps, other] Demonstration of a low loss, highly stable and re-useable edge coupler for SOI correlated photon pair sources Jinyi Du, George F.R. Chen, Hongwei Gao, James A. Grieve, Dawn T.H. Tan, Alexander Ling Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Quantum Physics (quant-ph) [54] arXiv:2312.17332 [pdf, other] Precise in situ radius measurement of individual optically trapped microspheres using negative optical torque exerted by focused vortex beams Kainã Diniz (1 and 2), Tanja Schoger (3), Guilherme T. Moura (1 and 2), Arthur L. Fonseca (1, 2), Diney S. Ether Jr (1 and 2), Rafael S. Dutra (4), Gert-Ludwig Ingold (3), Nathan B. Viana (1 and 2), Paulo A. Maia Neto (1 and 2) ((1) Instituto de Física - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, (2) Centro Nacional de Biologia Estrutural e Bioimagem - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, (3) Institut für Physik - Universität Augsburg, (4) LISComp-IFRJ - Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia) Comments: 11 pages, 5 figures Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Applied Physics (physics.app-ph) [55] arXiv:2312.17732 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other] Photon liquefaction in time Eduardo Zubizarreta Casalengua, Elena del Valle, Fabrice P. Laussy Comments: Pre-submission version welcoming comments, missing references, etc Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas); Optics (physics.optics) [56] arXiv:2312.17374 (cross-list from cond-mat.mes-hall) [pdf, other] Theory of Quantum Light-Matter Interaction in Cavities: Extended Systems and the Long Wavelength Approximation Mark Kamper Svendsen, Michael Ruggenthaler, Hannes Hübener, Christian Schäfer, Martin Eckstein, Angel Rubio, Simone Latini Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Optics (physics.optics); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)