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Tunable magnetic alignment between trapped exciton-polariton condensates

Other Condensed Matter 2016-03-10 v1

Abstract

Tunable spin correlations are found to arise between two neighboring trapped exciton-polariton condensates which spin-polarize spontaneously. We observe a crossover from an antiferromagnetic- to a ferromagnetic pair state by reducing the coupling barrier in real-time using control of the imprinted pattern of pump light. Fast optical switching of both condensates is then achieved by resonantly but weakly triggering only a single condensate. These effects can be explained as the competition between spin bifurcations and spin-preserving Josephson coupling between the two condensates, and open the way to polariton Bose-Hubbard ladders.

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@article{arxiv.1603.02830,
  title  = {Tunable magnetic alignment between trapped exciton-polariton condensates},
  author = {H. Ohadi and Y. del Valle-Inclan Redondo and A. Dreismann and Y. G. Rubo and F. Pinsker and S. I. Tsintzos and Z. Hatzopoulos and P. G. Savvidis and J. J. Baumberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.02830},
  year   = {2016}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures

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