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The dynamics of an exciton-polariton superfluid resonantly pumped in a semiconductor microcavity are investigated by mean-field theory. Modulational instability develops into crystalline order and then ordered and disordered states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Hiroki Saito , Tomohiko Aioi , Tsuyoshi Kadokura

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 investigate active spatial control of polariton condensates independently of the polariton-, gain-inducing excitation profile. This is achieved by introducing an extra intracavity semiconductor layer, non-resonant to the cavity mode.…

Microcavity polaritons in the lasing regime undergo a spontaneous symmetry breaking transition resulting in coherent emission with a well defined polarization. The order parameter is thus a vector describing both the laser global phase and…

Solitons and vortices obtain widespread attention in different physical systems as they offer potential use in information storage, processing, and communication. In exciton-polariton condensates in semiconductor microcavities, solitons and…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-19 Xuekai Ma , Oleg A. Egorov , Stefan Schumacher

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

We investigate the dynamics and stationary states of a semiconductor exciton-polariton condensate in a double well potential. We find that upon the population build up of the polaritons by above-threshold laser pumping, coherence relaxation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-16 Panayotis A. Kalozoumis , David Petrosyan

Superfluids under specific conditions can exhibit spontaneous breaking of continuous translation symmetries and form exotic spatially ordered states of matter known as supersolids. Despite its early theoretical prediction, it took over…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 P. N. Kozhevin , A. D. Liubomirov , R. V. Cherbunin , M. A. Chukeev , I. Yu. Chestnov , A. V. Kavokin , A. V. Nalitov

We demonstrate spontaneous formation of a nonlinear vortex cluster state in a microcavity exciton-polariton condensate with time-periodic sign flipping of its topological charges at the GHz scale. When optically pumped with a ring-shaped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Kirill A. Sitnik , Sergey Alyatkin , Julian D. Töpfer , Ivan Gnusov , Tamsin Cookson , Helgi Sigurdsson , Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

We review the recent developments of the polariton physics in microcavities featuring the exciton-photon strong coupling at room-temperature, and leading to the achievement of room-temperature polariton condensates. Such cavities embed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Thierry Guillet , Christelle Brimont

Although only a handful of organic materials have shown polariton condensation, their study is rapidly becoming more accessible. The spontaneous appearance of long-range spatial coherence is often recognized as a defining feature of such…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-07-22 Konstantinos S. Daskalakis , Stefan A. Maier , Stéphane Kéna-Cohen

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

Polariton condensates provide a versatile platform for exploring non-equilibrium phase transitions and collective phenomena in open quantum systems. Near the condensation threshold, these systems are particularly sensitive to fluctuations…

Inspired by the recent experimental observation of strongly coupled polaritons in a Moir\'e heterobilayer, we study a model of dipole-interacting excitons localized on sites of a lattice and coupled to planar cavity photons. We calculate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-25 Alexander Edelman , Peter B. Littlewood

Exciton-polaritons can condense to a macroscopic quantum state through a non-equilibrium process of pumping and decay. In recent experiments, polariton condensates are used to observe, for a short time, nonlinear Josephson phenomena by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-22 Jiun-Yi Lien , Yueh-Nan Chen , Natsuko Ishida , Hong-Bin Chen , Chi-Chuan Hwang , Franco Nori

We report new results of Bose-Einstein condensation of polaritons in specially designed microcavities with very high quality factor, on the order of $10^6$, giving the polariton lifetimes of the order of 100 ps. When the polaritons are…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-10-30 Bryan Nelsen , Gangqiang Liu , Mark Steger , David W. Snoke , Ryan Balili , Ken West , Loren Pfeiffer

The impact of a random disorder potential on the dynamical properties of Bose Einstein condensates is a very wide research field. In microcavities, these studies are even more crucial than in the condensates of cold atoms, since random…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 G. Malpuech , D. Solnyshkov

We consider exciton polaritons in a semiconductor microcavity with a saturable absorber in the growth direction of the heterostructure. This feature promotes additional nonlinear losses of the system with the emergence of bistability of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 D. V. Karpov , I. G. Savenko , H. Flayac , N. N. Rosanov

Motivated by recent experiments on generation of wave patterns by a polariton condensate incident on a localized obstacle, we study the characteristics of such flows under the condition that irreversible processes play a crucial role in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-10-11 P. -É Larré , N. Pavloff , A. M. Kamchatnov

We study the dynamics of formation and decay of a condensate of microcavity polaritons. We investigate the relationship between the number of particles, the emission's linewidth and its degree of linear polarization which serves as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-09 E. del Valle , D. Sanvitto , A. Amo , F. P. Laussy , A. Andre , C. Tejedor , L. Vina