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We introduce stochastic techniques that enable the simulations of polaritons resulting from placing giant 2D molecular aggregate crystals with $10^8$ interacting excitonic dyes in realistic multi-mode cavities. We show that the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Nadine Bradbury , Raphael Ribeiro , Justin R. Caram , Daniel Neuhauser

Strong coupling between excitons and confined modes of light presents a promising pathway to tunable and enhanced energy transport in organic materials. By forming hybrid light-matter quasiparticles, exciton-polaritons, electronic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Niclas Krupp , Gerrit Groenhof , Oriol Vendrell

Exciton-polaritons in semiconductors are quasi-particles which have recently shown the capability to undergo phase transition into a coherent hybrid state of light and matter. The observation of such quasi-particles in organic microcavities…

Polaritons in microcavities are versatile quasi-2D bosonic particles with a high degree of coherence and strong nonlinearities, thanks to their hybrid light-matter character. In their condensed form, they display striking quantum…

We study a hybrid system formed from an optomechanical resonator and a cavity mode strongly coupled to an excitonic transition inside a quantum well. We show that due to the mixing of cavity photon and exciton states, the emergent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-04 O. Kyriienko , T. C. H. Liew , I. A. Shelykh

While optical technology provides the best solution for the transmission of information, optical logics still calls for qualitative new concepts to be explored. Exciton-polaritons are composite particles, resulting from the strong coupling…

Strong coupling between electronic excitations in materials and photon modes results in the formation of polaritons, which display larger nonlinearities than their photonic counterparts due to their material component. We theoretically…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Sindhana Pannir-Sivajothi , Nathaniel P. Stern , Joel Yuen-Zhou

We present a microscopic theory of the equilibrium polariton condensate state of a semiconductor quantum well in a planar optical cavity. The theory accounts for the adjustment of matter excitations to the presence of a coherent photon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Fei Xue , Fengcheng Wu , Ming Xie , Jung-Jung Su , A. H. MacDonald

We describe a new type of spatially periodic structure (lattice models): a polaritonic crystal (PolC) formed by a two-dimensional lattice of trapped two-level atoms interacting with quantised electromagnetic field in a cavity (or in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-12 I. O. Barinov , A. P. Alodjants , S. M. Arakelian

Supersolidity - simultaneous superfluid flow and crystalline order - has been realized in quantum atomic systems but remains unexplored in purely photonic platforms operating at weak light-matter coupling. We predict a supersolid phase of…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-16 J. L. Figueiredo , J. T. Mendonça , H. Terças

Photonic crystal cavities can localize light into nanoscale volumes with high quality factors. This permits a strong interaction between light and matter, which is important for the construction of classical light sources with improved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jelena Vuckovic , Dirk Englund , David Fattal , Edo Waks , Yoshihisa Yamamoto

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

Motivated by the dramatic success of realizing cavity exciton-polariton condensation in experiment we consider the formation of polaritons from cavity photons and the amplitude or Higgs mode of a superconductor. Enabled by the recently…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-02-19 Zachary M. Raines , Andrew A. Allocca , Mohammad Hafezi , Victor M. Galitski

We propose leveraging strong and ultrastrong light-matter coupling to efficiently generate and exchange nonclassical light and quantum matter states. Two initial conditions are considered: (a) a displaced quadrature-squeezed matter state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Ilia Tutunnikov , Vasil Rokaj , Jianshu Cao , H. R. Sadeghpour

We show theoretically that polariton pairs with a high degree of polarization entanglement can be produced through parametric scattering. We demonstrate that it can emerge in coincidence experiments, even at low excitation densities where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Portolan , O. Di Stefano , S. Savasta , V. Savona

Exciton polaritons, hybrid quasiparticles with part-light part-matter nature in semiconductor microcavities, are extensively investigated for striking phenomena such as polariton condensation and quantum emulation. These phenomena have…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-27 Tingting Wang , Zhihao Zang , Yuchen Gao , Chao Lyu , Kai Peng , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Xiaoze Liu , Wei Bao , Yu Ye

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…

In-plane Hyperbolic Phonon polaritons (HPhPs) are quasiparticles formed via coupling of photons and optical phonons in in-plane hyperbolic materials and offer unique applications in sensing, thermal emitters and high resolution imaging.…

We present a quantitative microscopic analysis of the formation of exciton-polaritons, the composite particles possessing light and material components, polariton-polariton interactions, and resonant pumping dynamics in cylindrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Yury S. Krivosenko , Ivan V. Iorsh , Ivan A. Shelykh

Phonon interactions in solid-state photonics systems cause intrinsic quantum decoherence and often present the limiting factor in emerging quantum technology. Due to recent developments in nanophotonics, exciton-cavity structures with very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Emil V. Denning , Matias Bundgaard-Nielsen , Jesper Mork