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Classical and single photon memory devices based on polariton lasers

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2025-09-26 v1

Abstract

Stimulated scattering of incoherent excitons into an exciton-polariton mode leads to the build-up of a polariton condensate whose polarization is sensitive to a small seeded population that triggers the stimulated process. We show, within a semiclassical stochastic Gross-Pitaevskii model, that this mechanism enables a robust polarization memory operation: the condensate tends to align its Stokes vector with that of the seed and to maintain it for times far exceeding an individual polariton lifetime. Importantly, this single-photon-seeded regime is modeled as an initial weak excitation of the condensate mode. We quantify the memory performance by a classical polarization-alignment metric and find that the seed polarization can remain well preserved on a nanosecond timescale under realistic parameters.

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@article{arxiv.2509.20569,
  title  = {Classical and single photon memory devices based on polariton lasers},
  author = {D. Novokreschenov and A. Kudlis and A. V. Kavokin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.20569},
  year   = {2025}
}
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