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We present a method to implement 3-dimensional polariton confinement with in-situ spectral tuning of the cavity mode. Our tunable microcavity is a hybrid system consisting of a bottom semiconductor distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) with a…

Two-dimensional (2D) van-der-Waals materials are a promising platform for exciton state engineering. In this paper, we study the properties of excitons in 2D group VI transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors that are modified by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-08 Jose M. Torres-Lopez , Sudipta Kundu , Felipe H. da Jornada , Tony Heinz , Allan H. MacDonald

Multidimensional coherent spectroscopy directly unravels multiply excited states that overlap in a linear spectrum. We report multidimensional coherent optical photocurrent spectroscopy in a semiconductor polariton diode and explore the…

We consider an ensemble of ultracold bosonic atoms within a near-planar cavity, driven by a far detuned laser whose phase is modulated at a frequency comparable to the transverse cavity mode spacing. We show that a strong, dispersive…

Cavity electro-(opto-)mechanics allows us to access not only single isolated but also multiple mechanical modes in a massive object. Here we develop a multi-mode electromechanical system in which a several membrane vibrational modes are…

Electrons in two-dimensional materials possess an additional quantum attribute, the valley pseudospin, labelled as $\mathbf{K}$ and $\mathbf{K}^{\prime}$ -- analogous to the spin up and spin down. The majority of research to achieve…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-06 Navdeep Rana , Gopal Dixit

We study theoretically the entanglement of two-photon states in the ground state of the intersubband cavity system, the so-called polariton vacuum. The system consists of a sequence of doped quantum wells located inside a microcavity and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Adrian Auer , Guido Burkard

The interplay between strong light-matter interactions and charge doping represents an important frontier in the pursuit of exotic many-body physics and optoelectronics. Here, we consider a simplified model of a two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Guangyao Li , Olivier Bleu , Meera M. Parish , Jesper Levinsen

Transition-metal dichalcogenides can be easily produced as atomically thin sheets, exhibiting the possibility to optically polarize and read out the valley pseudospin of extremely stable excitonic quasiparticles present in these 2D…

A novel type of exciton-phonon bound state -- interlayer polaron -- in a double-layer two-dimensional semiconductor with transition metal dichalcogenides as an example, is predicted. In these systems the interaction of the interlayer…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-06 M. A. Semina , M. M. Glazov , E. Ya. Sherman

So far, selective excitation of a desired valley in the Brillouin zone of a hexagonal two-dimensional material has relied on using circularly polarized fields. We theoretically demonstrate a way to induce, control, and read valley…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-21 Álvaro Jiménez-Galán , Rui Silva , Olga Smirnova , Misha Ivanov

We investigate electron paring in a two-dimensional electron system mediated by vacuum fluctuations inside a nanoplasmonic terahertz cavity. We show that the structured cavity vacuum can induce long-range attractive interactions between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Frank Schlawin , Andrea Cavalleri , Dieter Jaksch

Electronic states in silicon quantum dots are examined theoretically, taking into account a multivalley structure of the conduction band. We find that (i) exchange interaction hardly works between electrons in different valleys. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yoko Hada , Mikio Eto

We demonstrate, both experimentally and theoretically, a new phenomenon: the presence of dissipative coupling in the system of driven bosons. This is evidenced for a particular case of externally excited spots of exciton-polariton…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-25 H. Ohadi , R. L. Gregory , T. Freegarde , Y. G. Rubo , A. V. Kavokin , P. G. Lagoudakis

We propose and theoretically analyze a new scheme for generating hyper-entangled photon pairs in a system of polaritons in coupled planar microcavities. Starting from a microscopic model, we evaluate the relevant parametric scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-06 S. Portolan , L. Einkemmer , Z. Vörös , G. Weihs , P. Rabl

Strongly nonlinear transport through Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor multiquantum wells occurs due to the interplay between confinement, Coulomb and exchange interaction. Nonlinear effects include the appearance of spin polarized stationary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-14 R. Escobedo , M. Carretero , L. L. Bonilla , G. Platero

Microcavity polaritons are light-matter quasiparticles that arise from the strong coupling between excitons and photons confined in a semiconductor microcavity. They typically operate at visible or near visible wavelengths. They combine the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-06 Dmitry D. Solnyshkov , Guillaume Malpuech , Philippe St-Jean , Sylvain Ravets , Jacqueline Bloch , Alberto Amo

Photons and excitons in a semiconductor microcavity interact to form exciton-polariton condensates. These are governed by a nonlinear quantum-mechanical system involving exciton and photon wavefunctions. We calculate all non-traveling…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-07-15 Stavros Komineas , Stephen P. Shipman , Stephanos Venakides

Manipulating and reserving the valley pseudospin of excitons is one core aim in the two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). However, due to the strong electron-hole exchange and spin-orbit coupling interactions, the exciton…

I present a theoretical treatment of parametric scattering in strong coupling semiconductor microcavities to model experiments in which parametric oscillator behaviour has been observed. The model consists of a non-linear excitonic…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-06 D. M. Whittaker