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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…

Second-order time correlation measurements with a temporal resolution better than 3 ps were performed on a CdTe microcavity where spontaneous Bose-Einstein condensation is observed. After the laser pulse, the nonresonantly excited thermal…

The quantum theory of polariton condensation in a trapped state reveals a second-order phase transition evidenced by spontaneous polarization parity breaking in sub-spaces of fixed polariton occupation numbers. The emission spectra of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Huawen Xu , Timothy C. H. Liew , Yuri G. Rubo

We report the observation of vorticity in a macroscopic Bose-Einstein condensate of polaritons in a ring geometry. Because it is a spinor condensate, the elementary excitations are "half vortices" in which there is a phase rotation of $\pi$…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-02-24 Gangqiang Liu , David W. Snoke , Andrew Daley , Loren Pfeiffer , Kenneth West

We study the condensation of exciton-polaritons in a two-dimensional Lieb lattice of micropillars. We show selective polariton condensation into the flatbands formed by S and P$_{x;y}$ orbital modes of the micropillars under non-resonant…

We study the equilibrium properties of a system of dipole-active excitons coupled to a single photon mode at fixed total excitation. Treating the presence or absence of a trapped exciton as a two-level system produces a model that is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 P. R. Eastham , P. B. Littlewood

Recent experiments have shown several effects indicative of Bose-Einstein condensation in polaritons in GaAs-based microcavity structures when a harmonic potential trap for the two-dimensional polaritons is created by applied stress. These…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 R. Balili , B. Nelsen , D. W. Snoke , L. Pfeiffer , K. West

Quantum fluids of light are realized in semiconductor microcavities by exciton-polaritons, solid-state quasi-particles with a light mass and sizeable interactions. Here, we use the microscopic analogue of oceanographic techniques to measure…

We demonstrate strong light-matter interaction at ambient conditions between a ladder-type conjugated polymer and the individual modes of a vertical microcavity with tunable resonance frequencies. Zero-dimensional wavelength-scale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-28 Darius Urbonas , Thilo Stöferle , Fabio Scafirimuto , Ullrich Scherf , Rainer F. Mahrt

We investigate an all-optical microscale planar lensing technique based on coherent fluids of semiconductor cavity exciton-polariton condensates. Our theoretical analysis underpins the potential in using state-of-the-art spatial light…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-05 Y. Wang , H. Sigurdsson , J. D. Töpfer , P. G. Lagoudakis

A methodology for forming a qubit state is essential for quantum applications of room temperature polaritons. While polarization degree of freedom is expected as a possible means for this purpose, the coupling of linearly polarized…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-12 Yuta Moriyama , Takaya Inukai , Tsukasa Hirao , Yusuke Ueda , Shun Takahashi , Kenichi Yamashita

Fluids of exciton-polaritons, excitations of two dimensional quantum wells in optical cavities, show collective phenomena akin to Bose condensation. However, a fundamental difference from standard condensates stems from the finite life-time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-03 Ehud Altman , Lukas M. Sieberer , Leiming Chen , Sebastian Diehl , John Toner

We present a reaction/diffusion model for the formation of a lower polariton condensate in a micro cavity containing an organic semiconducting molecular crystalline film. Our model--based upon an anthracene film sandwiched between two…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-06-14 Eric R. Bittner , Svitlana Zaster , Carlos Silva

We present a time-resolved study of energy relaxation and trapping dynamics of polariton condensates in a semiconductor microcavity ridge. The combination of two non-resonant, pulsed laser sources in a GaAs ridge-shaped microcavity gives…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 C. Antón , T. C . H. Liew , G. Tosi , M. D. Martín , T. Gao , Z. Hatzopoulos , P. S. Eldridge , P. G. Savvidis , L. Viña

By considering driven diffusive dynamics of exciton polaritons in an optical microcavity with an embedded molybdenum disulfide monolayer, we determine experimentally relevant range of parameters at which room-temperature superfuidity can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 German V. Kolmakov , Leonid M. Pomirchi , Roman Ya. Kezerashvili

This work is inspired by recent experiments on the formation of vortices in exciton-polariton condensates placed in rotating optical traps. We study theoretically the dynamics of formation of such vortices and elucidate the fundamental role…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-03 A. V. Yulin , I. A. Shelykh , E. S. Sedov , A. V. Kavokin

We observe a spontaneous parity breaking bifurcation to a ferromagnetic state in a spatially trapped exciton-polariton condensate. At a critical bifurcation density under nonresonant excitation, the whole condensate spontaneously magnetizes…

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…

The effect of dipolar orientation with respect to the condensate plane on the mean-field dynamics of dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates in a pancake-shaped confinement is discussed. The stability of a quasi-two-dimensional condensate, with…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-10-13 Chinmayee Mishra , Rejish Nath

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…