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We observe ground-state polariton condensation in a two dimensional GaAs/AlAs semiconductor microcavity under non resonant pulsed optical excitation. We resolve the formation of a polariton condensate by studying the spatial, angular,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-07-23 M. Maragkou , A. J. D. Grundy , P. G. Lagoudakis

We report spin and intensity coupling of an exciton-polariton condensate to the mechanical vibrations of a circular membrane microcavity. We optically drive the microcavity resonator at the lowest mechanical resonance frequency while…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-16 O. Be'er , H. Ohadi , Y. del Valle-Inclan Redondo , A. J. Ramsay , S. I. Tsintzos , Z. Hatzopoulos , P. G. Savvidis , J. J. Baumberg

We present a microcavity structure with a shifted photonic stop-band to enable efficient non-resonant injection of a polariton condensate with spectrally broad femtosecond pulses. The concept is demonstrated theoretically and confirmed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 C. Poellmann , U. Leierseder , E. Galopin , A. Lemaître , A. Amo , J. Bloch , R. Huber , J. -M. Ménard

We suggest a new spin orientation mechanism for localized electrons: $dynamic~electron~spin~polarization~provided~by~nuclear~spin~fluctuations$. The angular momentum for the electrons is gained from the nuclear spin system via the hyperfine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 D. S. Smirnov , T. S. Shamirzaev , D. R. Yakovlev , M. Bayer

Spin-selective spatial filtering of propagating polariton condensates, using a controllable spin-dependent gating barrier, in a one-dimensional semiconductor microcavity ridge waveguide is reported. A nonresonant laser beam provides the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 T. Gao , C. Antón , T. C. H. Liew , M. D. Martín , Z. Hatzopoulos , L. Viña , P. S. Eldridge , P. G. Savvidis

Spin-controlled lasers are highly interesting photonic devices and have been shown to provide ultra-fast polarization dynamics in excess of 200 GHz. In contrast to conventional semiconductor lasers their temporal properties are not limited…

Using a novel technique, we make quantitative measurements of the spin polarization of dilute (3.4 to 6.8*10^{10} cm^{-2}) GaAs (311)A two-dimensional holes as a function of an in-plane magnetic field. As the field is increased the system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Tutuc , E. P. De Poortere , S. J. Papadakis , M. Shayegan

Bose-Einstein condensates of exciton-polaritons are known for their fascinating coherent and polarization properties. The spin state of the condensate is reflected in polarization of the exciton-polariton emission, with temporal…

We demonstrate spin polarized jets in extended systems of ballistic exciton-polariton condensates in semiconductor microcavities using optical non-resonant excitation geometries. The structure of the spin jets is determined by the digitally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Lucinda Pickup , Julian D. Töpfer , Helgi Sigurdsson , Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

We report spin amplification using a capacitive beam splitter in n-type GaAs where the spin polarization is monitored via transverse electron focusing measurement. It is shown that partially spin-polarized current injected by the emitter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-29 Chengyu Yan , Sanjeev Kumar , Kalarikad Thomas , Patrick See , Ian Farrer , David Ritchie , Jonathan Griffiths , Geraint Jones , Michael Pepper

We investigate exciton spin memory in individual InAs/GaAs self-assembled quantum dots via optical alignment and conversion of exciton polarization in a magnetic field. Quasiresonant phonon-assisted excitation is successfully employed to…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Kowalik , O. Krebs , A. Lemaître , J. A. Gaj , P. Voisin

We study the time dependent polariton condensation as well as the parametric scattering process of polaritons in a semiconductor microcavity. Based upon a new stochastic scheme the dynamics for both cases is fully analyzed. We show how the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. E. Pedraza , L. Quiroga

Quasiparticles in semiconductors -- such as microcavity polaritons -- can form condensates in which the steady-state density profile is set by the balance of pumping and decay. By taking account of the polarization degree of freedom for a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-06-14 Magnus O. Borgh , Jonathan Keeling , Natalia G. Berloff

We report the observation of an anomalous conductance plateau near G = 0.5 G0 (G0 = 2e2/h) in asymmetrically biased AlGaAs/GaAs quantum point contacts (QPCs), with in-plane side gates in the presence of lateral spin-orbit coupling. This is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-24 N. Bhandari , P. P. Das , M. Cahay , R. S. Newrock , S. T. Herbert

We report on optical orientation of Mn^2+ in bulk GaAs under application of weak longitudinal magnetic field (B <= 100 mT). The manganese spin polarization of 25% is directly evaluated using spin flip Raman scattering spectroscopy. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-08 I. A. Akimov , R. I. Dzhioev , V. L. Korenev , Yu. G. Kusrayev , V. F. Sapega , D. R. Yakovlev , M. Bayer

A method of determining the temperature of the nonradiative reservoir in a microcavity exciton-polariton system is developed. A general relation for the homogeneous polariton linewidth is theoretically derived and experimentally used in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 V. V. Belykh , D. N. Sob'yanin

We report on polariton states bound to defects in planar GaAs/AlAs microcavities grown by molecular beam epitaxy. The defect types relevant for the spatial polariton dynamics in these structures are cross-hatch misfit dislocations, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-04-16 Joanna M Zajac , Wolfgang Langbein , Maxime Hugues , Mark Hopkinson

Spin-polarized electron photoemission has been studied for GaAs/GaAs$_{1-x}$P$_x$ strained superlattice cathodes grown by gas-source molecular beam epitaxy. The superlattice structural parameters are systematically varied to optimize the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Maruyama , D. -A. Luh , A. Brachmann , J. E. Clendenin , E. L. Garwin , S. Harvey , J. Jiang , R. E. Kirby , C. Y. Prescott , R. Prepost , A. M. Moy

We compare polariton lasing with photon lasing of a planar GaAs/GaAlAs microcavity with zero detuning between the bare cavity mode and the bare exciton mode. For the emission from the lower energy-momentum dispersion branch we find a…

The effect of nuclear spins in Fe/GaAs all-electrical spin-injection devices is investigated. At temperatures below 50 K, strong modifications of the non-local spin signal are found that are characteristic for hyperfine coupling between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-08 G. Salis , A. Fuhrer , S. F. Alvarado