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We develop an analytical microscopic theory to describe the polaron-polariton dispersion, formed by hybridizing excitons, photons, and phonons, and their coherent dynamics inside optical cavities. Starting from a microscopic light-matter…

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Integrated circulators and isolators are important for developing on-chip optical technologies, such as laser cavities, communication systems, and quantum information processors. These devices appear to inherently require mirror symmetry…

The strong-coupling of an excitonic transition with an electromagnetic mode results in composite quasi-particles called exciton-polaritons, which have been shown to combine the best properties of their bare components in semiconductor…

We present a time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) study in real- and momentum-space of a polariton condensate switch in a quasi-1D semiconductor microcavity. The polariton flow across the ridge is gated by excitons inducing a barrier…

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Two dimensional semiconductors provide an ideal platform for exploration of linear exciton and polariton physics, primarily due to large exciton binding energy and strong light-matter coupling. These features, however, generically imply…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Li Bing Tan , Ovidiu Cotlet , Andrea Bergschneider , Richard Schmidt , Patrick Back , Yuya Shimazaki , Martin Kroner , Atac Imamoglu

Exciton-polaritons in a microcavity are composite two-dimensional bosonic quasiparticles, arising from the strong coupling between confined light modes in a resonant planar optical cavity and excitonic transitions, typically using excitons…

Exciton transport in 2D semiconductors holds promise for room-temperature, ultra-compact optoelectronic devices, but it is limited by short propagation distances. Hybridization of excitons with cavity photons to form exciton-polaritons can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Jamie M. Fitzgerald , Roberto Rosati , Ermin Malic

We consider theoretically the dynamics of exciton-polaritons in a zigzag chain of coupled elliptical micropillars subjected to incoherent excitation. The driven-dissipative nature of the system along with the naturally present polarization…

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Sensing light's polarization and wavefront direction enables surface curvature assessment, material identification, shadow differentiation, and improved image quality in turbid environments. Traditional polarization cameras utilize multiple…

Following the recent observation of localised phonon polaritons in user-defined silicon carbide nano-resonators, here we demonstrate coherent coupling between those localised modes and propagating phonon polaritons bound to the surface of…

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We describe a mechanism by which an electrical bias voltage applied across a unipolar semiconductor quantum well can drive an exciton or polariton supercurrent. The mechanism depends on the properties of electronic quasiparticles in quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-17 Ming Xie , David Snoke , A. H. MacDonald

Integrating two-dimensional van der Waals materials with optical cavities has revealed a fascinating platform to study exciton-polariton physics. Manipulating exciton polaritons often requires external control over the electrical and…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-08 Zhi Wang , Li He , Bumho Kim , Bo Zhen

Integrated electro-optical switches are essential as one of the fundamental elements in the development of modern optoelectronics. As an architecture for photonic systems, exciton polaritons, that are hybrid bosonic quasiparticles that…

The vast repository of van der Waals (vdW) materials supporting polaritons offers numerous possibilities to tailor electromagnetic waves at the nanoscale. The development of twistoptics - the modulation of the optical properties by twisting…

Strong coupling of excitonic resonances with a cavity gives rise to exciton-polaritons which possess a modified energy landscape compared to the uncoupled emitter. However, due to the femtosecond lifetime of the so-called bright polariton…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-19 Jan M. Lüttgens , Zhuoran Kuang , Nicolas F. Zorn , Tiago Buckup , Jana Zaumseil

The lower branch of the dispersion relation of exciton polaritons in semiconductor microcavities, operating in the strong-coupling regime, contains sections of both positive and negative curvature along one spatial direction. We show that…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 O. A. Egorov , D. V. Skryabin , A. V. Yulin , F. Lederer

Recently reported large values of exciton-polariton nonlinearity of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers coupled to optically resonant structures approach the values characteristic for GaAs-based systems in the regime of strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 F. A. Benimetskiy , A. Yulin , A. O. Mikhin , V. Kravtsov , I. Iorsh , M. S. Skolnick , I. A. Shelykh , D. N. Krizhanovskii , A. Samusev

Optical control of exciton fluxes is realized for indirect excitons in a crossed-ramp excitonic device. The device demonstrates experimental proof of principle for all-optical excitonic transistors with a high ratio between the excitonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-07 P. Andreakou , S. V. Poltavtsev , J. R. Leonard , E. V. Calman , M. Remeika , Y. Y. Kuznetsova , L. V. Butov , J. Wilkes , M. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

Although energy level repulsion is typically observed in interacting quantum systems, non-Hermitian physics predicts the effect of level attraction, which occurs when significant energy dissipation is present. Here, we show a manifestation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 Dąbrówka Biegańska , Maciej Pieczarka , Christian Schneider , Sven Höfling , Sebastian Klembt , Marcin Syperek

Optical feedback is a well-known method of controlling laser dynamics, which has been widely studied in photonic systems to induce complex behaviors such as chaos or enhanced coherence. However, its application to systems in the strong…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-29 R. Mirek , M. Furman , A. Opala , M. Król , W. Pacuski , J. Szczytko , H. Sigurðsson , B. Piętka