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We demonstrate theoretically that the interaction of two degenerate condensates of exciton-polaritons in microcavities leads to polarization dependent parametric oscillations. The resonant polariton-polariton scattering is governed by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-13 T C H Liew , A V Kavokin , I A Shelykh

We show the full control of the polarization dynamics of a propagating exciton-polariton condensate in a planar microcavity by using a magnetic field applied in the Voigt geometry. The change of the spin-beat frequency, the suppression of…

The manipulation of exciton-polaritons and their condensates is of great interest due to their applications in polariton simulators and high-speed, all-optical logic devices. Until now, methods of trapping and manipulating such condensates…

Optical control is achieved on the excited state energy transfer between spatially separated donor and acceptor molecules, both coupled to the same optical mode of a cavity. The energy transfer occurs through the formed hybrid polaritons…

By harnessing the unique properties of bilayer graphene, we present a flexible platform for achieving electrically tunable exciton polaritons within a microcavity. Using a semiclassical approach, we solve Maxwell's equations within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 V. G. M. Duarte , P. Ninhos , C. Tserkezis , N. Asger Mortensen , N. M. R. Peres , A. J. Chaves

Exciton-polaritons are mixed light-matter particles offering a versatile solid state platform to study many-body physical effects. In this work we demonstrate an electrically controlled polariton laser, in a compact, easy-to-fabricate and…

Manipulating bosonic condensates with electric fields is very challenging as the electric fields do not directly interact with the neutral particles of the condensate. Here we demonstrate a simple electric method to tune the vorticity of…

We propose harnessing the tools of modern nano-fabrication to provide electrical control of exciton-polariton (EP) condensates. We develop the theory of a device based on the Josephson effect in which electric fields can be used to both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Hua Wang , Hong-Yi Xie , Kieran Mullen

Exciton polaritons are inherently tunable systems with adjustable potential landscape. In this work we show that exciton polariton condensates can be selectively localized in a fixed optically induced periodic lattice with uniform potential…

The drag of half-light half-mater quasiparticles, exciton-polaritons, by an electric current is a peculiar mechanism of light-matter interaction in solids. While an ideal superfluid is protected from being dragged by its zero viscosity,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Igor Y. Chestnov , Yuri G. Rubo , Alexey V. Kavokin

Optical bistability of exciton polaritons in semiconductor microcavities is a promising platform for digital optical devices. Steady states of coherently driven polaritons can be toggled in tens of picoseconds by a short external pulse of…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 A. V. Uvarov , S. S. Gavrilov , V. D. Kulakovskii , N. A. Gippius

Spin-selective spatial filtering of propagating polariton condensates, using a controllable spin-dependent gating barrier, in a one-dimensional semiconductor microcavity ridge waveguide is reported. A nonresonant laser beam provides the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 T. Gao , C. Antón , T. C. H. Liew , M. D. Martín , Z. Hatzopoulos , L. Viña , P. S. Eldridge , P. G. Savvidis

A laser pulse, several meV red-detuned from the excitonic line of a quantum well, has been shown to induce an almost instantaneous and rigid shift of the lower and upper polariton branches. Here we demonstrate that through this shift,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Emiliano Cancellieri , Alex Hayat , Aephraim Steinberg , Elisabeth Giacobino , Alberto Bramati

Dielectric environment engineering is an efficient and general approach to manipulating polaritons. Liquids serving as surrounding media of polaritons have been used to shift polariton dispersions and tailor polariton wavefronts. However,…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-05 Zhenyang Cui , Sihao Xia , Lian Shen , Bin Zheng , Hongsheng Chen , Yingjie Wu

We propose theoretically an optical diode based on exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities. A flow of polaritons in the bistable regime is used to send signals through an asymmetric fixed potential that favours the tunneling of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-24 T. Espinosa-Ortega , T. C. H. Liew , I. A. Shelykh

We investigate the optical orientation, polarization pinning, and depolarization of optically confined semiconductor exciton-polariton condensates. We perform a complete mapping of the condensate polarization as a function of incident…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Ivan Gnusov , Helgi Sigurdsson , Stepan Baryshev , Timur Ermatov , Alexis Askitopoulos , Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

The rotational response of quantum condensed fluids is strikingly distinct from rotating classical fluids, especially notable for the excitation and ordering of quantized vortex ensembles. Although widely studied in conservative systems,…

We investigate, theoretically and numerically, the spin dynamics of a two-component exciton-polariton condensate created and sustained by non-resonant spin-polarized optical pumping of a semiconductor microcavity. Using the open-dissipative…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-08-26 G. Li , T. C. H. Liew , O. A. Egorov , E. A. Ostrovskaya

We investigate, through polarization-resolved spectroscopy, the spin transport by propagating polariton condensates in a quasi one-dimensional microcavity ridge along macroscopic distances. Under circularly polarized, continuous-wave,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-11 C. Antón , S. Morina , T. Gao , P. S. Eldridge , T. C. H. Liew , M. D. Martín , Z. Hatzopoulos , P. G. Savvidis , I. A. Shelykh , L. Viña

We show theoretically that an open-dissipative polariton condensate confined within a trapping potential and driven by an incoherent pumping scheme gives rise to bistability between odd and even modes of the potential. Switching from one…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-12-10 Helgi Sigurdsson , Ivan A. Shelykh , Timothy C. H. Liew