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Exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities constitute the archetypal realization of a quantum fluid of light. Under coherent optical drive, remarkable effects such as superfluidity, dark solitons or the nucleation of hydrodynamic…

The exciton-exciton interaction is investigated for quasi-two-dimensional quantum structures. A bosonization scheme is applied including the full spin structure. For generating the effective interaction potentials, the Hartree-Fock and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-23 Christoph Schindler , Roland Zimmermann

A cavity-polariton, formed due to the strong coupling between exciton and cavity mode, is one of the most promising composite bosons for realizing macroscopic spontaneous coherence at high temperature. Up to date, most of polariton quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-28 Liaoxin Sun , Shulin Sun , Hongxing Dong , Wei Xie , M. Richard , Lei Zhou , L. S. Dang , Xuechu Shen , Zhanghai Chen

We theoretically study the superfluidity properties of a non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensate of exciton-polaritons in a semiconductor microcavity. The dynamics of the condensate is described at mean-field level in terms of a modified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-06 Michiel Wouters , Iacopo Carusotto

Motivated by the dramatic success of realizing cavity exciton-polariton condensation in experiment we consider the formation of polaritons from cavity photons and the amplitude or Higgs mode of a superconductor. Enabled by the recently…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-02-19 Zachary M. Raines , Andrew A. Allocca , Mohammad Hafezi , Victor M. Galitski

The crossover between low and high density regimes of exciton-polariton condensates is examined using a BCS wavefunction approach. Our approach is an extension of the BEC-BCS crossover theory for excitons, but includes a cavity photon…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-10-28 Tim Byrnes , Tomoyuki Horikiri , Natsuko Ishida , Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Integrated electro-optical switches are essential as one of the fundamental elements in the development of modern optoelectronics. As an architecture for photonic systems, exciton polaritons, that are hybrid bosonic quasiparticles that…

Experimental evidence of strong coupling between excitons confined in a quantum well and the photonic modes of a two-dimensional dielectric lattice is reported. Both resonant scattering and photoluminescence spectra at low temperature show…

Equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation of exciton-polaritons, demonstrated with a long-lifetime microcavity [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 016602 (2017)], has proven that driven-dissipative systems can undergo thermodynamic phase transitions in the…

We study formation of superfluid currents of exciton polaritons in annular polariton condensates in a cylindrical micropillar cavity under the spatially localised nonresonant optical pumping. Since polariton condensates are strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-07 Evgeny Sedov , Vladimir Lukoshkin , Vladimir Kalevich , Igor Chestnov , Z. Hatzopoulos , P. G. Savvidis , Alexey Kavokin

The Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons into a single quantum state is known as exciton condensation. Exciton condensation, which potentially supports the frictionless flow of energy, has recently been realized in graphene bilayers and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Anna O. Schouten , LeeAnn M. Sager-Smith , David A. Mazziotti

The bilayer systems exhibit the Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons that emerge due to Coulomb pairing of electrons belonging to one layer with the holes belonging to the other layer. Here we present the microscopic derivation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 A. I. Bezuglyj , S. I. Shevchenko

Exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities generate fascinating effects such as long-range spatial coherence and Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC), which are attractive for their potential use in low threshold lasers, vortices and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 Shuai Zhang , Qiuyu Shang , Wenna Du , Jia Shi , Yang Mi , Jie Chen , Zhiyong Wu , Yuanzheng Li , Mei Liu , Qing Zhang , Xinfeng Liu

We present a microscopic theory of the equilibrium polariton condensate state of a semiconductor quantum well in a planar optical cavity. The theory accounts for the adjustment of matter excitations to the presence of a coherent photon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Fei Xue , Fengcheng Wu , Ming Xie , Jung-Jung Su , A. H. MacDonald

Semiconductor exciton-polaritons in planar microcavities form coherent two-dimensional condensates in non-equilibrium. However, coupling of multiple lower-dimensional polariton quantum systems, critically needed for polaritonic quantum…

We show that an exciton on a discrete chain of sites can be guided by effective measurements induced by an ambient, non-equilibrium medium that is synchronised to the exciton transport. For experimental verification, we propose a hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 K. Mukherjee , S. Wüster

We consider a generalization of the Dicke model. It describes localized, physically separated, saturable excitations, such as excitons bound on impurities, coupled to a single long-lived mode of an optical cavity. We consider the thermal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 P. R. Eastham , P. B. Littlewood

We study the resonant electronic excitation dynamics for ultracold atoms trapped in a deep optical lattice prepared in a Mott insulator state. Excitons in these artificial crystals are similar to Frenkel excitons in Noble atom or molecular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-11 Hashem Zoubi , Helmut Ritsch

Semiconductor microcavities are often influenced by structural imperfections, which can disturb the flow and dynamics of exciton-polariton condensates. Additionally, in exciton-polariton condensates there is a variety of dynamical scenarios…

Supersolidity in a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), which is the coexistence of crystalline density modulation and global phase coherence, emerges from the interplay of contact interactions, long-range dipole-dipole forces, and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-29 Changjian Yu , Jinbin Li , Kui-Tian Xi