Equilibrium to nonequilibrium condensation in driven-dissipative semiconductor systems
Abstract
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 gas. Since the exciton polaritons are composite quasi-bosonic particles, many fundamental features arise from their original constituents, i.e., electrons, holes and photons. As a result, not only equilibrium phases typified by the BEC but also nonequilibrium lasing phases can be achieved. In this contribution, we describe a framework which can treat such equilibrium and nonequilibrium phases in a unified way.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1403.5593,
title = {Equilibrium to nonequilibrium condensation in driven-dissipative semiconductor systems},
author = {Makoto Yamaguchi and Tetsuo Ogawa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.5593},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
19 pages, 7 figures; prepared for the Springer Lecture Notes in Physics "Quantum Computing, Quantum Communication and Quantum Metrology" edited by Yoshihisa Yamamoto and Kouichi Semba. Several typing errors are corrected