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We study theoretically the transport of linearly polarized exciton-polaritons in a quasi one-dimensional microcavity channel separating two polariton condensates generated by optical pumping. The direction and value of mass and spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-25 M. Yu. Petrov , A. V. Kavokin

We consider a generalization of the Dicke model. It describes localized, physically separated, saturable excitations, such as excitons bound on impurities, coupled to a single long-lived mode of an optical cavity. We consider the thermal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 P. R. Eastham , P. B. Littlewood

We show that exciton-polariton condensates may exhibit a new fundamental, self-localized nonlinear excitation not seen in other quantum hydrodynamical systems, which takes the form of a dark ring shaped breather. We predict that these…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-10-07 Samuel N. Alperin , Natalia G. Berloff

Open many-body quantum systems can exhibit intriguing nonequilibrium phases of matter, such as time crystals. In these phases, the state of the system spontaneously breaks the time-translation symmetry of the dynamical generator, which…

We present a study of the macroscopic dynamics of a polariton condensate formed by non-resonant optical excitation in a quasi-one-dimensional ring-shaped microcavity. The presence of a gradient in the cavity photon energy creates a…

We propose a grated microcavity setup to form trapped polariton condensates with parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry and study their polarization dynamics. The pseudo-conservative dynamics of the Stokes vector in proposed configuration is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 I. Jesán Velázquez-Reséndiz , Yuri G. Rubo

We investigate the turbulent properties of a confined driven-dissipative polariton quantum fluid after a pulsed excitation. Using numerical simulations, we provide insight into the vortex clustering processes that emerge during the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-04-08 P. Comaron , R. Panico , D. Ballarini , M. Matuszewski

We theoretically analyze the synchronized and desynchronized phases of coupled non-equilibrium polariton condensates within mean field theory. An analytical condition for the existence of a synchronized phase is derived for two coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michiel Wouters

BEC of exciton-polaritons and related effects such as superfluidity1,2, spontaneous symmetry breaking3,4 and quantised vortices5,6 open way to creation of novel light sources7 and optical logic elements8. Remarkable observations of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-08-24 Elena Kammann , Hamid Ohadi , Maria Maragkou , Alexey V. Kavokin , Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

Exciton-polaritons - hybrid light-matter quasiparticles - can undergo Bose-Einstein-like condensation at elevated temperatures owing to their lower effective mass. This becomes even more pronounced in the context of molecular polariton…

Exciton-polaritons are hybrid elementary excitations of light and matter that, thanks to their nonlinear properties, enable a plethora of physical phenomena ranging from room temperature condensation to superfluidity. While polaritons are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Davide Nigro , Vincenzo D'Ambrosio , Daniele Sanvitto , Dario Gerace

We study the unitary time evolution of a simple quantum Hamiltonian describing a heat engine coupled to two heat baths. The engine is modeled as a three-level system. Each heat bath consists of a single harmonic oscillator. The engine is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-27 Winny O'Kelly de Galway , Jan Naudts

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

In the study of non-equilibrium polariton condensates it is usually assumed that the dispersion relation of polaritons is parabolic in nature. We show that considering the true non-parabolic kinetic energy of polaritons leads to significant…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-04-05 Florian Pinsker , Xinran Ruan , Tristram Alexander

Long-term quantum coherence constitutes one of the main challenges when engineering quantum devices. However, easily accessible means to quantify complex decoherence mechanisms are not readily available, nor are sufficiently stable systems.…

We investigate theoretically the creation, persistence and detection of quantized vortices in nonequilibrium polariton condensates within a stochastic classical field model. The life time of the quantized vortices is shown to increase with…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2009-04-21 Michiel Wouters , Vincenzo Savona

We study the non-equilibrium dynamics of two tunnel-coupled one-dimensional quasicondensates following a quench of the coupling strength from zero to a fixed finite value. More specifically, starting from two independent quasicondensates in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-29 F. A. Bayocboc , M. J. Davis , K. V. Kheruntsyan

We report observation of oscillations in the dynamics of a microcavity polariton condensate formed under pulsed non resonant excitation. While oscillations in a condensate have always been attributed to Josephson mechanisms due to a…

In this work we derive a theory of polariton condensation based on the theory of interacting Bose particles. In particular, we describe self-consistently the linear exciton-photon coupling and the exciton-nonlinearities, by generalizing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Davide Sarchi , Vincenzo Savona

Bound states in the continuum have recently been utilized in photonic crystal gratings to achieve strong coupling and ultralow power-driven condensation of bosonic exciton-polariton quasiparticles with atypical Dirac-like features in their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 Helgi Sigurðsson , Hai Chau Nguyen , Hai Son Nguyen