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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…

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

Semiconductor microcavity systems strongly coupled to quantum wells are now receiving a great deal of attention because of their ability to efficiently generate coherent light by the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of an exciton-polariton…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Makoto Yamaguchi , Tetsuo Ogawa

Half-light half-matter quasiparticles termed exciton-polaritons arise through the strong coupling of excitons and cavity photons. They have been used to demonstrate a wide array of fundamental phenomena and potential applications ranging…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Jie Gu , Biswanath Chakraborty , Mandeep Khatoniar , Vinod M. Menon

Microcavity exciton polariton systems can have a wide range of macroscopic quantum effects that may be turned into better photonic technologies. Polariton Bose-Einstein condensation and photon lasing have been widely accepted in the limits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Jiaqi Hu , Zhaorong Wang , Seonghoon Kim , Hui Deng , Sebastian Brodbeck , Christian Schneider , Sven Höfling , Nai H. Kwong , Rolf Binder

Exciton mediated superconductor is a fascinating quantum phase of matter that occurs when excitons become the dominant excitation in materials, which is also very promising for high temperature superconductor. However, there is no…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-20 Shisheng Lin , Shaoqi Huang , Minhui Yang , Xin Chen , Hongjia Bi , Kangchen Xiong

We investigate the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC, superfluidity) of particle-hole pairs in ultracold Fermionic atoms with repulsive interactionsand arbitrary polarization, which are trapped within optical lattices. Near a Feshbach…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chaohong Lee

Semiconductor microcavities offer a unique system to investigate the physics of weakly interacting bosons. Their elementary excitations, polaritons--a mixture of excitons and photons--behave, in the low density limit, as bosons that can…

Optical bound states in the continuum (BIC) are peculiar topological states that, when realized in a planar photonic crystal lattice, are symmetry-protected from radiating in the far field despite lying within the light cone, i.e., in the…

We create exciton-polaritons in a zero-dimensional (0D) microcavity filled with organic ladder-type conjugated polymer in the strong light-matter interaction regime. Photonic confinement at wavelength scale is realized in the longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Fabio Scafirimuto , Darius Urbonas , Ullrich Scherf , Rainer F. Mahrt , Thilo Stöferle

Polaritons are quasiparticles arising from the strong coupling of electromagnetic waves in cavities and dipolar oscillations in a material medium. In this framework, localized surface plasmon in metallic nanoparticles defining optical…

We propose a novel mechanism for a nonequilibrium phase transition in a $U(1)$-broken phase of an electron-hole-photon system, from a Bose-Einstein condensate of polaritons to a photon laser, induced by the non-Hermitian nature of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-09 Ryo Hanai , Alexander Edelman , Yoji Ohashi , Peter B. Littlewood

Semiconductor microcavity polaritons, formed via strong exciton-photon coupling, provide a quantum many-body system on a chip, featuring rich physics phenomena for better photonic technology. However, conventional polariton cavities are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Long Zhang , Rahul Gogna , Will Burg , Emanuel Tutuc , Hui Deng

Polaritons in semiconductor microcavities are hybrid quasiparticles consisting of a superposition of photons and excitons. Due to the photon component, polaritons are characterized by a quantum coherence length in the several micron range.…

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

In a standard semiconductor laser, electrons and holes recombine via stimulated emission to emit coherent light, in a process that is far from thermal equilibrium. Exciton-polariton condensates -- sharing the same basic device structure as…

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 bosonic-like elementary excitations in semiconductors, which have been recently shown to display large occupancy of topologically protected polariton bound states in the continuum in suitably engineered photonic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-13 Davide Nigro , Dario Gerace

Exciton-polaritons are a coherent electron-hole-photon (e-h-p) system where condensation has been observed in semiconductor microcavities. In contrast to equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) for long lifetime systems, polariton…

We study a "strongly-coupled" (SC) polariton system formed between the atom-like intersubband transitions in a semiconductor nanostructure and the THz optical modes that are localised at the edges of a gold aperture. The polaritons can be…