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Seeing macroscopic quantum states directly remains an elusive goal. Particles with boson symmetry can condense into such quantum fluids producing rich physical phenomena as well as proven potential for interferometric devices [1-10].…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-01 G. Tosi , G. Christmann , N. G. Berloff , P. Tsotsis , T. Gao , Z. Hatzopoulos , P. G. Savvidis , J. J. Baumberg

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 develop a theory of spin fluctuations of exciton-polaritons in a semiconductor microcavity under the non-resonant unpolarized pumping. It is shown that the corresponding spin noise is sensitive to the scattering rates in the system,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. M. Glazov , M. A. Semina , E. Ya. Sherman , A. V. Kavokin

Organic exciton-photon polariton lasers have recently been shown to be remarkable candidates for the realization of efficient sources of coherent light operating at room temperature. While their thresholds are now comparable with…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-22 F. Le Roux , A. Mischok , D. D. C. Bradley , M. C. Gather

Cavity-polaritons in semiconductor photonic structures have emerged as a test bed for exploring non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum fluids in an integrated solid-state device setting. Several recent experiments demonstrated the potential of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-04 Benjamin Besga , Cyril Vaneph , Jakob Reichel , Jerome Esteve , Andreas Reinhard , Javier Miguel-Sanchez , Atac Imamoglu , Thomas Volz

Exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities have advanced to become a model system for studying dynamical Bose-Einstein condensation, macroscopic coherence, many-body effects, nonclassical states of light and matter, and possibly…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-03-21 C. Schneider , K. Winkler , M. D. Fraser , M. Kamp , Y. Yamamoto , E. A. Ostrovskaya , S. Hoefling

Exciton-polaritons in a microcavity are composite two-dimensional bosonic quasiparticles, arising from the strong coupling between confined light modes in a resonant planar optical cavity and excitonic transitions, typically using excitons…

We demonstrate spin polarized jets in extended systems of ballistic exciton-polariton condensates in semiconductor microcavities using optical non-resonant excitation geometries. The structure of the spin jets is determined by the digitally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Lucinda Pickup , Julian D. Töpfer , Helgi Sigurdsson , Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

We study the magneto-photoluminescence of an optically trapped exciton-polariton condensate in a planar semiconductor microcavity with multiple In0.08Ga0.92As quantum wells. Extremely high condensate coherence time and continuous control…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Krzysztof Sawicki , Dmitriy Dovzhenko , Yuan Wang , Helgi Sigurðsson , Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

We present a precise calculation of spatially-indirect exciton states in semiconductor coupled quantum wells and polaritons formed from their coupling to the optical mode of a microcavity. We include the presence of electric and magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 J. Wilkes , E. A. Muljarov

Introducing spin-polarized carriers in semiconductor lasers reveals an alternative path to realize room-temperature spintronic applications, beyond the usual magnetoresistive effects. Through carrier recombination, the angular momentum of…

In Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC), spin-orbit coupling (SOC) produces supersolidity. It is a peculiar state of matter, which, in addition to the superfluid behaviour shows periodic density modulation typical for crystals. Here, we report…

Solid-state semiconductor lasers underpin technologies from telecommunications and data storage to sensing, medical diagnostics, and emerging quantum communication. Polaritons-hybrid exciton-photon states have further extended this reach,…

Polariton-mediated light-sound interaction is investigated through resonant Brillouin experiments in GaAs/AlAs multiple-quantum wells. Photoelastic coupling enhancement at exciton-polariton resonance reaches 105 at 30 K as compared to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 B. Jusserand , A. Poddubny , A. Poshakinskiy , A. Fainstein , A. Lemaitre

We present a complete description of spin injection and detection in Fe/Al_xGa_{1-x}As/GaAs heterostructures for temperatures from 2 to 295 K. Measurements of the steady-state spin polarization in the semiconductor indicate three…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Adelmann , X. Lou , J. Strand , C. J. Palmstrom , P. A. Crowell

Polaritons are hybrid light-matter quasi-particles that have gathered a significant attention for their capability to show room temperature and out-of-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation. More recently, a novel class of ultrafast optical…

The hybrid light-matter character of exciton-polaritons gives rise to distinct polariton parametric scattering (PPS) process, which holds promise for frontier applications in polaritonic quantum devices. However, the stable excitation and…

Spin orbit coupling gives rise to intriguing physical phenomena in bosonic condensates, such as formation of stripe phases and domains with vortex arrays. However, how the non-Hermiticity affects the spatial distribution of spin orbit…

The authors report the observation of electroluminescence from GaAs-based semiconductor microcavities in the strong coupling regime. At low current densities the emission consists of two peaks, which exhibit anti-crossing behaviour as a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 A. A. Khalifa , A. P. D. Love , D. N. Krizhanovskii , M. S. Skolnick , J. S. Roberts

Exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities have been used to demonstrate quantum effects such as Bose-Einstein condensation, superfluity, and quantized vortices. However, in these experiments, the polaritons have not reached thermal…