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We study the nonequilibrium exciton-polariton condensation in 1D to 0D and 1D to 2D junctions by means of non-resonant spectroscopy. The shape of our potential landscape allows to probe the resonant transmission of a propagating condensate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 K. Winkler , H. Flayac , S. Klembt , A. Schade , D. Nevinskiy , M. Kamp , C. Schneider , S. Höfling

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

We study exciton-polariton nonlinear optical fluids in a high momentum regime for the first time. Defects in the fluid develop into dark solitons whose healing length decreases with increasing density. We deduce interaction constants for…

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…

Besides being superfluids, microcavity exciton-polariton condensates are capable of spontaneous pattern formation due to their forced-dissipative dynamics. Their macroscopic and easily detectable response to small perturbations can be…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-11-09 Guido Franchetti , Natalia G. Berloff , Jeremy J. Baumberg

In a standard semiconductor laser, electrons and holes recombine via stimulated emission to emit coherent light, in a process that is far from thermal equilibrium. Exciton-polariton condensates -- sharing the same basic device structure as…

We analyze exciton spin dynamics in GaSe under nonresonant circularly polarized optical pumping with an exciton spin-flip rate-equation model. The model reproduces polarized time-dependent photoluminescence measurements in which the initial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-29 Yanhao Tang , Wei Xie , Krishna C. Mandal , John A. McGuire , Chih-Wei Lai

The realization of exciton-polaritons -- hybrid excitations of semiconductor quantum well excitons and cavity photons -- has been of great technological and scientific significance. In particular, the short-range collisional interaction…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-07-17 Valentin Walther , Robert Johne , Thomas Pohl

Strong light-matter interaction enriches topological photonics by dressing light with matter, which provides the possibility to realize tuneable topological devices with immunity to defects. Topological exciton polaritons, half-light…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-11 Rui Su , Sanjib Ghosh , Timothy C. H. Liew , Qihua Xiong

We present a description of the non-equilibrium properties of a microcavity polariton fluid, injected by a nearly-resonant continuous wave pump laser. In the first part, we point out the interplay between the peculiar dispersion of the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Cristiano Ciuti , Iacopo Carusotto

State-of-the-art hybrid perovskites have demonstrated excellent functionality in photovoltaics and light-emitting applications, and have emerged as a promising candidate for exciton-polariton (polariton) optoelectronics. In the strong…

A novel, optimized numerical method of modeling of an exciton-polariton superfluid in a semiconductor microcavity was proposed. Exciton-polaritons are spin-carrying quasiparticles formed from photons strongly coupled to excitons. They…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-04-26 Oksana Voronych , Adam Buraczewski , Michał Matuszewski , Magdalena Stobińska

Narrow and brilliant spectral lines are essential assets for high-resolution spectroscopy as well as for precision sensing and optomechanics. In semiconductor structures and, in particular, in the well-established (Al,Ga)As material system,…

Exciton-polaritons, hybrid light-matter elementary excitations arising from the strong coupling regime between excitons in semiconductors and photons in photonic nanostructures, offer a fruitful playground to explore the physics of quantum…

Time resolved photoluminescence is a powerful technique to study the collective dynamics of excitons and polaritons in semiconductor nanostructures. We present a two excitation pulses technique to induce the ultrafast and controlled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-25 A. Amo , D. Sanvitto , L. Vina

Quantum gases of atoms and exciton-polaritons are nowadays a well established theoretical and experimental tool for fundamental studies of quantum many-body physics and suggest promising applications to quantum computing. Given their…

Polaritons in microcavities are versatile quasi-2D bosonic particles with a high degree of coherence and strong nonlinearities, thanks to their hybrid light-matter character. In their condensed form, they display striking quantum…

We study the hydrodynamics of a nonresonantly-pumped polariton condensate in a quasi-one-dimensional quantum wire taking into account the spin degree of freedom. We clarify the relevance of the Landau criterion for superfluidity in this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-26 P. -É Larré , N. Pavloff , A. M. Kamchatnov

A spatial potential trap is formed in a 6.0 {\mu}m Al(Ga)N nanowire by varying the Al composition along its length during epitaxial growth. The polariton emission characteristics of a dielectric microcavity with the single nanowire embedded…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ayan Das , Pallab Bhattacharya , Junseok Heo , Animesh Banerjee , Wei Guo

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