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A condensed matter platform for analogue simulation of complex two-dimensional molecular bonding configurations, based on optically trapped exciton-polariton condensates is proposed. The stable occupation of polariton condensates in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 E. D. Cherotchenko , H. Sigurdsson , A. Askitopoulos , A. V. Nalitov

Two dimensional (2D) perovskites are promising materials for photonic applications, given their outstanding nonlinear optical properties, ease of fabrication and versatility. In particular, exploiting their high oscillator strength, the…

The strong-coupling of an excitonic transition with an electromagnetic mode results in composite quasi-particles called exciton-polaritons, which have been shown to combine the best properties of their bare components in semiconductor…

We present a microcavity structure with a shifted photonic stop-band to enable efficient non-resonant injection of a polariton condensate with spectrally broad femtosecond pulses. The concept is demonstrated theoretically and confirmed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 C. Poellmann , U. Leierseder , E. Galopin , A. Lemaître , A. Amo , J. Bloch , R. Huber , J. -M. Ménard

We review the recent developments of the polariton physics in microcavities featuring the exciton-photon strong coupling at room-temperature, and leading to the achievement of room-temperature polariton condensates. Such cavities embed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Thierry Guillet , Christelle Brimont

Multi-level exciton-polariton systems offer an attractive platform for studies of non-linear optical phenomena. However, studies of such consequential non-linear phenomena as polariton condensation and lasing in planar microcavities have so…

External driving of spinor degrees of freedom by magnetic or optical fields in quantum systems underpin many applications ranging from nuclear magnetic resonance to coherent state control in quantum computing. Although spinor polariton…

We report a record-size, two-dimensional polariton condensate of a fraction of a millimeter radius free from the presence of an exciton reservoir. This macroscopically occupied state is formed by the ballistically expanding polariton flow…

Semiconductor microcavity polaritons, formed via strong exciton-photon coupling, provide a quantum many-body system on a chip, featuring rich physics phenomena for better photonic technology. However, conventional polariton cavities are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Long Zhang , Rahul Gogna , Will Burg , Emanuel Tutuc , Hui Deng

The similarities and differences between polariton condensation in microcavities and standard lasing in a semiconductor cavity structure are reviewed. The recent experiments on "photon condensation" are also reviewed.

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-05 David Snoke

Exciton-polaritons provide a great platform for developing ultrafast all-optical logic gates for quantum and optical chips. However, progress toward practical polariton logic remains limited due to incomplete logical functionality on a…

We present a theoretical model that allows us to describe the polariton dynamics in a semiconductor microcavity at large densities, for the case of non-resonant excitation. Exciton-polariton scattering from a thermalized exciton reservoir…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Porras , C. Ciuti , J. J. Baumberg , C. Tejedor

We study the dynamics of polariton condensate wave trains that propagate along a quasi one-dimensional waveguide. Through the application of tuneable potential barriers the propagation can be reflected and multiple reflections used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-13 C. Antón , T. C. H. Liew , J. Cuadra , M. D. Martín , P. S. Eldridge , Z. Hatzopoulos , G. Stavrinidis , P. G. Savvidis , L. Viña

Owing to their integer spin, exciton-polaritons in microcavities can be used for observation of non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation in solid state. However, spin-related phenomena of such condensates are difficult to explore due to…

New effects of polarization multistability and polarization hysteresis in a coherently driven polariton condensate in a semiconductor microcavity are predicted and theoretically analyzed. The multistability arises due to…

We present a fully microscopic approach to the transition rate of two exciton-photon polaritons. The non-trivial consequences of the polariton composite nature -- here treated exactly through a development of our composite-exciton many-body…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Combescot , M. -A. Dupertuis , O. Betbeder-Matibet

A method of determining the temperature of the nonradiative reservoir in a microcavity exciton-polariton system is developed. A general relation for the homogeneous polariton linewidth is theoretically derived and experimentally used in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 V. V. Belykh , D. N. Sob'yanin

We report multistate optical switching among high-order bouncing-ball modes ("ripples") and whispering-gallerying modes ("petals") of exciton-polariton condensates in a laser-generated annular trap. By tailoring the diameter and power of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Yongbao Sun , Yoseob Yoon , Saeed Khan , Li Ge , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Ken West , Hakan E. Tureci , David W. Snoke , Keith A. Nelson

We investigate the steady states of a lossy array of nonlinear optical resonators that are driven by lasers and interact via mutual photon tunneling. For weak nonlinearities, we find two-mode squeezing of polaritons in modes whose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Michael J. Hartmann

We examine the Bose-Einstein condensation of exciton-polaritons in a semiconductor microcavity via an electrical current. We propose that by embedding a quantum dot p-i-n junction inside the cavity, the tunneling current through the device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Yueh-Nan Chen , Neill Lambert , Franco Nori