Cavity Higgs-Polaritons
Superconductivity
2020-02-19 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract
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 predicted and observed supercurrent-induced linear coupling between these excitations and light, we find that hybridization between Higgs excitations in a disordered quasi-2D superconductor and resonant cavity photons can occur, forming Higgs-polariton states. This provides the potential for a new means to manipulate the superconducting state as well as potential for novel photonic cavity circuit elements.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1905.03377,
title = {Cavity Higgs-Polaritons},
author = {Zachary M. Raines and Andrew A. Allocca and Mohammad Hafezi and Victor M. Galitski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.03377},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
8 pages; 5 figures