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Zhao X, Ye Z, Chen F, Zhou H, Jia H, Xu H, Li H, Wu J. Ultrafast dynamics of exciton-polariton fluids at non-zero momenta. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2024; 36:39LT01. [PMID: 38917829 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ad5bb1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2024] [Accepted: 06/25/2024] [Indexed: 06/27/2024]
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In this study, we have explored the ultrafast formation and decay dynamics of exciton-polariton fluids at non-zero momenta, non-resonantly excited by a small-spot femtosecond pump pulse in a ZnO microcavity. Using the femtosecond angle-resolved spectroscopic imaging technique, multidimensional dynamics in both the energy and momentum degrees of freedom have been obtained. Two distinct regions with different decay rate in the energy dimension and various decay-channels in the momentum dimension can be well-resolved. Theoretical simulations based on the generalized Gross-Pitaevskii equation can reach a qualitative agreement with the experimental observations, demonstrating the significance of the initial potential barrier induced by the pump pulse during the decay process. The finding of our study can provide additional insights into the fundamental understanding of exciton-polariton condensates, enabling further advancements for controlling the fluids and practical applications.
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- Xianyan Zhao
- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, People's Republic of China
- Peking University Yangtze Delta Institute of Optoelectronics, Nantong 226010, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Physics, College of Physical Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, People's Republic of China
- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Precision Optics, Chongqing Institute of East China Normal University, Chongqing 401121, People's Republic of China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, People's Republic of China
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Gagel P, Egorov OA, Dzimira F, Beierlein J, Emmerling M, Wolf A, Jabeen F, Betzold S, Peschel U, Höfling S, Schneider C, Klembt S. An Electrically Pumped Topological Polariton Laser. NANO LETTERS 2024; 24:6538-6544. [PMID: 38771703 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c00958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2024]
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With a seminal work of Raghu and Haldane in 2008, concepts of topology have been introduced into optical systems, where some of the most promising routes to an application are efficient and highly coherent topological lasers. While some attempts have been made to excite such structures electrically, the majority of published experiments use a form of laser excitation. In this paper, we use a lattice of vertical resonator polariton micropillars to form an exponentially localized topological Su-Schrieffer-Heeger defect. Upon electrical excitation, the system unequivocally shows polariton lasing from the topological defect using a carefully placed gold contact. Despite the presence of doping and electrical contacts, the polariton band structure clearly preserves its topological properties. At high excitation power the Mott density is exceeded, leading to highly efficient lasing in the weak coupling regime. This work is an important step toward applied topological lasers using vertical resonator microcavity structures.
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- Philipp Gagel
- Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Physikalisches Institut and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Lehrstuhl für Technische Physik, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute of Condensed Matter Theory and Optics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Max-Wien Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Physikalisches Institut and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Lehrstuhl für Technische Physik, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Physikalisches Institut and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Lehrstuhl für Technische Physik, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Physikalisches Institut and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Lehrstuhl für Technische Physik, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Physikalisches Institut and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Lehrstuhl für Technische Physik, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Physikalisches Institut and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Lehrstuhl für Technische Physik, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Physikalisches Institut and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Lehrstuhl für Technische Physik, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute of Condensed Matter Theory and Optics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Max-Wien Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Physikalisches Institut and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Lehrstuhl für Technische Physik, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Physikalisches Institut and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Lehrstuhl für Technische Physik, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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Del Valle-Inclan Redondo Y, Schneider C, Klembt S, Höfling S, Tarucha S, Fraser MD. Optically Driven Rotation of Exciton-Polariton Condensates. NANO LETTERS 2023; 23:4564-4571. [PMID: 37129463 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c01021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The rotational response of quantum condensed fluids is strikingly distinct from rotating classical fluids, especially notable for the excitation and ordering of quantized vortex ensembles. Although widely studied in conservative systems, the dynamics of rotating open-dissipative superfluids such as exciton-polariton condensates remains largely unexplored, as it requires high-frequency rotation while avoiding resonantly driving the condensate. We create a rotating polariton condensate at gigahertz frequencies by off-resonantly pumping with a rotating optical stirrer composed of the time-dependent interference of two frequency-offset, structured laser modes. Acquisition of angular momentum exceeding the critical 1ℏ/particle is directly measured, accompanied by the deterministic nucleation and capture of quantized vortices with a handedness controlled by the pump rotation direction. The demonstration of controlled optical rotation of a spontaneously formed polariton condensate enables new opportunities for the study of open dissipative superfluidity, ordering of non-Hermitian quantized vortex matter, and topological states in a highly nonlinear, photonic platform.
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- Yago Del Valle-Inclan Redondo
- RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
- Physics & Informatics Laboratories (PHI Lab), NTT Research, Inc., Sunnyvale, California 94085, United States
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- Technische Physik, Physikalisches Institut and Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen-Research Center for Complex Material System, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Technische Physik, Physikalisches Institut and Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen-Research Center for Complex Material System, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
- Physics & Informatics Laboratories (PHI Lab), NTT Research, Inc., Sunnyvale, California 94085, United States
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Ikeda A, Matsuda YH, Sato K, Ishii Y, Sawabe H, Nakamura D, Takeyama S, Nasu J. Signature of spin-triplet exciton condensations in LaCoO 3 at ultrahigh magnetic fields up to 600 T. Nat Commun 2023; 14:1744. [PMID: 37015917 PMCID: PMC10073196 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37125-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2022] [Accepted: 02/28/2023] [Indexed: 04/06/2023] Open
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Bose-Einstein condensation of electron-hole pairs, exciton condensation, has been effortfully investigated since predicted 60 years ago. Irrefutable evidence has still been lacking due to experimental difficulties in verifying the condensation of the charge neutral and non-magnetic spin-singlet excitons. Whilst, condensation of spin-triplet excitons is a promising frontier because spin supercurrent and spin-Seebeck effects will be observable. A canonical cobaltite LaCoO3 under very high magnetic fields is a propitious candidate, yet to be verified. Here, we unveil the exotic phase diagram of LaCoO3 up to 600 T generated using the electromagnetic flux compression method and the state-of-the-art magnetostriction gauge. We found the continuous magnetostriction curves and a bending structure, which suggest the emergence of two distinct spin-triplet exciton condensates. By constructing a phenomenological model, we showed that quantum fluctuations of excitons are crucial for the field-induced successive transitions. The spin-triplet exciton condensation in a cobaltite, which is three-dimensional and thermally equilibrated, opens up a novel venue for spintronics technologies with spin-supercurrent such as a spin Josephson junction.
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- Akihiko Ikeda
- Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-8581, Japan.
- Department of Engineering Science, University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo, 182-8585, Japan.
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- Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-8581, Japan
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- National Institute of Technology, Ibaraki College, Hitachinaka, Ibaraki, 312-0011, Japan
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- Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-8581, Japan
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- Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-8581, Japan
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- Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-8581, Japan
- RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Wako, 351-0198, Japan
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- Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-8581, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8578, Japan
- PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Honcho Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan
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Jheng SD, Chen TW, Cheng SC. Spontaneous giant vortices and circular supercurrents in a trapped exciton-polariton condensate. OPTICS EXPRESS 2022; 30:35325-35337. [PMID: 36258486 DOI: 10.1364/oe.468330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2022] [Accepted: 08/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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We theoretically study an exciton-polariton condensate trapped in a harmonic potential with an annular pump. With a circular pump, predictions were made for a spontaneous rotating vortex lattice packed by singly quantized vortices. If the circular pump is replaced by an annular pump, singly quantized vortices are absorbed into the central hole and form a multiply quantized vortex. For a sufficiently narrow annular width, all vortices are absorbed into the central hole, ultimately forming a giant vortex with supersonic circular supercurrents flowing around it. Vortex-antivortex pairs can be generated if a defect is present in these supersonic circular supercurrents. We further discover that the motion of the vortex-antivortex pairs depends on the position at which they were generated. We suggest that this property can be used to control whether the velocity of the circular supercurrents is above or below the sound velocity.
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Katow H, Akashi R, Miyamoto Y, Tsuneyuki S. First-Principles Study of the Optical Dipole Trap for Two-Dimensional Excitons in Graphane. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 129:047401. [PMID: 35938993 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.047401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2020] [Revised: 03/31/2022] [Accepted: 06/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Recent studies on excitons in two-dimensional materials have been widely conducted for their potential usages for novel electronic and optical devices. Especially, sophisticated manipulation techniques of quantum degrees of freedom of excitons are in demand. In this Letter we propose a technique of forming an optical dipole trap for excitons in graphane, a two-dimensional wide gap semiconductor, based on first-principles calculations. We develop a first-principles method to evaluate the transition dipole matrix between excitonic states and combine it with the density functional theory and GW+BSE calculations. We reveal that in graphane the huge exciton binding energy and the large dipole moments of Wannier-like excitons enable us to induce the dipole trap of the order of meV depth and μm width. This Letter opens a new way to control light-exciton interacting systems based on newly developed numerically robust ab initio calculations.
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- Hiroki Katow
- Photon Science Center, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Research Center for Computational Design of Advanced Functional Materials, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Central 2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan
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- Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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Chen F, Zhou H, Li H, Cao J, Luo S, Sun Z, Zhang Z, Shao Z, Sun F, Zhou B, Dong H, Xu H, Xu H, Kavokin A, Chen Z, Wu J. Femtosecond Dynamics of a Polariton Bosonic Cascade at Room Temperature. NANO LETTERS 2022; 22:2023-2029. [PMID: 35200029 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Whispering gallery modes in a microwire are characterized by a nearly equidistant energy spectrum. In the strong exciton-photon coupling regime, this system represents a bosonic cascade: a ladder of discrete energy levels that sustains stimulated transitions between neighboring steps. Here, by using a femtosecond angle-resolved spectroscopic imaging technique, the ultrafast dynamics of polaritons in a bosonic cascade based on a one-dimensional ZnO whispering gallery microcavity are explicitly visualized. Clear ladder-form build-up processes from higher to lower energy branches of the polariton condensates are observed, which are well reproduced by modeling using rate equations. Remarkably, a pronounced superbunching feature, which could serve as solid evidence for bosonic cascades, is demonstrated by the measured second-order time correlation factor. In addition, the nonlinear polariton parametric scattering dynamics on a time scale of hundreds of femtoseconds are revealed. Our understandings pave the way toward ultrafast coherent control of polaritons at room temperature.
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- Fei Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- Department of Physics, College of Physical Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- School of Science, Westlake University, Zhejiang 310024, China
- Institute of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, Zhejiang 310024, China
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- Department of Physics, College of Physical Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- School of Science, Westlake University, Zhejiang 310024, China
- Institute of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, Zhejiang 310024, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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- Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- School of Science, Westlake University, Zhejiang 310024, China
- Institute of Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, Zhejiang 310024, China
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- Department of Physics, College of Physical Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai 201800, China
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Su R, Fieramosca A, Zhang Q, Nguyen HS, Deleporte E, Chen Z, Sanvitto D, Liew TCH, Xiong Q. Perovskite semiconductors for room-temperature exciton-polaritonics. NATURE MATERIALS 2021; 20:1315-1324. [PMID: 34211156 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-021-01035-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2020] [Accepted: 05/07/2021] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Lead-halide perovskites are generally excellent light emitters and can have larger exciton binding energies than thermal energy at room temperature, exhibiting great promise for room-temperature exciton-polaritonics. Rapid progress has been made recently, although challenges and mysteries remain in lead-halide perovskite semiconductors to push polaritons to room-temperature operation. In this Perspective, we discuss fundamental aspects of perovskite semiconductors for exciton-polaritons and review the recent rapid experimental advances using lead-halide perovskites for room-temperature polaritonics, including the experimental realization of strong light-matter interaction using various types of microcavities as well as reaching the polariton condensation regime in planar microcavities and lattices.
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- Rui Su
- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, P. R. China
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- Institut des Nanotechnologies de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Ecully, France
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- LuMIn, Université Paris-Saclay, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, CentraleSupélec, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Department of Physics, College of Physical Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, P. R. China
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- CNR NANOTEC, Institute of Nanotechnology, Campus Ecotekne, Lecce, Italy.
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics and Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China.
- Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China.
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Lackner L, Dusel M, Egorov OA, Han B, Knopf H, Eilenberger F, Schröder S, Watanabe K, Taniguchi T, Tongay S, Anton-Solanas C, Höfling S, Schneider C. Tunable exciton-polaritons emerging from WS 2 monolayer excitons in a photonic lattice at room temperature. Nat Commun 2021; 12:4933. [PMID: 34400620 PMCID: PMC8368091 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24925-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2021] [Accepted: 07/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Engineering non-linear hybrid light-matter states in tailored lattices is a central research strategy for the simulation of complex Hamiltonians. Excitons in atomically thin crystals are an ideal active medium for such purposes, since they couple strongly with light and bear the potential to harness giant non-linearities and interactions while presenting a simple sample-processing and room temperature operability. We demonstrate lattice polaritons, based on an open, high-quality optical cavity, with an imprinted photonic lattice strongly coupled to excitons in a WS2 monolayer. We experimentally observe the emergence of the canonical band-structure of particles in a one-dimensional lattice at room temperature, and demonstrate frequency reconfigurability over a spectral window exceeding 85 meV, as well as the systematic variation of the nearest-neighbour coupling, reflected by a tunability in the bandwidth of the p-band polaritons by 7 meV. The technology presented in this work is a critical demonstration towards reconfigurable photonic emulators operated with non-linear photonic fluids, offering a simple experimental implementation and working at ambient conditions.
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- L Lackner
- Technische Physik and Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen-Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
- Institute of Physics, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.
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- Technische Physik and Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen-Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute of Condensed Matter Theory and Solid State Optics, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
- Fraunhofer-Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF, Jena, Germany
- Max Planck School of Photonics, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
- Fraunhofer-Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF, Jena, Germany
- Max Planck School of Photonics, Jena, Germany
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- Fraunhofer-Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF, Jena, Germany
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- Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
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- School for Engineering of Matter, Transport, and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Institute of Physics, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Technische Physik and Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen-Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Technische Physik and Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen-Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
- Institute of Physics, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.
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Bhatt V, Yadav S, Jha PK, Bhattacherjee AB. Polariton multistability in a nonlinear optomechanical cavity. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2021; 33:365302. [PMID: 34171855 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ac0ea9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2021] [Accepted: 06/25/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We theoretically study the polariton multistability in a solid state based optomechanical resonator embedded with a quantum well and aχ(2)second order nonlinear medium. The excitonic transition inside the quantum well is strongly coupled to the optical cavity mode. The polariton formed due to the mixing of cavity photons and exciton states are coupled to the mechanical mode which gives rise to the bistable behavior. A transition from bistability to tristability occurs in the presence of a strongχ(2)nonlinearity. Switching between bistability and tristability can also be controlled using exciton-cavity and optomechanical coupling making the system highly tunable. Tristability appears at low input power making it a suitable candidate for polaritonic devices which requires low input power.
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- Vijay Bhatt
- Department of Physics, DDU College, University of Delhi, New Delhi 110078, India
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- Department of Physics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad-500078, India
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- Department of Physics, DDU College, University of Delhi, New Delhi 110078, India
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- Department of Physics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad-500078, India
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Zhang Y, Zhao M, Wang J, Liu W, Wang B, Hu S, Lu G, Chen A, Cui J, Zhang W, Hsu CW, Liu X, Shi L, Yin H, Zi J. Momentum-space imaging spectroscopy for the study of nanophotonic materials. Sci Bull (Beijing) 2021; 66:824-838. [PMID: 36654139 DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2020.12.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2020] [Revised: 11/05/2020] [Accepted: 12/02/2020] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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The novel phenomena in nanophotonic materials, such as the angle-dependent reflection and negative refraction effect, are closely related to the photonic dispersions E(p). E(p) describes the relation between energy E and momentum p of photonic eigenmodes, and essentially determines the optical properties of materials. As E(p) is defined in momentum space (k-space), the experimental method to detect the energy distribution, that is the spectrum, in a momentum-resolved manner is highly required. In this review, the momentum-space imaging spectroscopy (MSIS) system is presented, which can directly study the spectral information in momentum space. Using the MSIS system, the photonic dispersion can be captured in one shot with high energy and momentum resolution. From the experimental momentum-resolved spectrum data, other key features of photonic eigenmodes, such as quality factors and polarization states, can also be extracted through the post-processing algorithm based on the coupled mode theory. In addition, the interference configurations of the MSIS system enable the measurement of coherence properties and phase information of nanophotonic materials, which is important for the study of light-matter interaction and beam shaping with nanostructures. The MSIS system can give the comprehensive information of nanophotonic materials, and is greatly useful for the study of novel photonic phenomena and the development of nanophotonic technologies.
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- Yiwen Zhang
- Department of Physics, Key Laboratory of Micro- and Nano-Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), and State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Physics, Key Laboratory of Micro- and Nano-Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), and State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Physics, Key Laboratory of Micro- and Nano-Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), and State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Physics, Key Laboratory of Micro- and Nano-Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), and State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Physics, Key Laboratory of Micro- and Nano-Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), and State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Optical Metrology for Nano-fabrication (SERCOM), Shanghai 200433, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Optical Metrology for Nano-fabrication (SERCOM), Shanghai 200433, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Optical Metrology for Nano-fabrication (SERCOM), Shanghai 200433, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Optical Metrology for Nano-fabrication (SERCOM), Shanghai 200433, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Optical Metrology for Nano-fabrication (SERCOM), Shanghai 200433, China
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- Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Physics, Key Laboratory of Micro- and Nano-Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), and State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Physics, Key Laboratory of Micro- and Nano-Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), and State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Optical Metrology for Nano-fabrication (SERCOM), Shanghai 200433, China; Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Optical Metrology for Nano-fabrication (SERCOM), Shanghai 200433, China.
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- Department of Physics, Key Laboratory of Micro- and Nano-Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), and State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
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Zhao J, Su R, Fieramosca A, Zhao W, Du W, Liu X, Diederichs C, Sanvitto D, Liew TCH, Xiong Q. Ultralow Threshold Polariton Condensate in a Monolayer Semiconductor Microcavity at Room Temperature. NANO LETTERS 2021; 21:3331-3339. [PMID: 33797259 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c01162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Exciton-polaritons, hybrid light-matter bosonic quasiparticles, can condense into a single quantum state, i.e., forming a polariton Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), which represents a crucial step for the development of nanophotonic technology. Recently, atomically thin transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) emerged as promising candidates for novel polaritonic devices. Although the formation of robust valley-polaritons has been realized up to room temperature, the demonstration of polariton lasing remains elusive. Herein, we report for the first time the realization of this important milestone in a TMD microcavity at room temperature. Continuous wave pumped polariton lasing is evidenced by the macroscopic occupation of the ground state, which undergoes a nonlinear increase of the emission along with the emergence of temporal coherence, the presence of an exciton fraction-controlled threshold and the buildup of linear polarization. Our work presents a critically important step toward exploiting nonlinear polariton-polariton interactions, as well as offering a new platform for thresholdless lasing.
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- Jiaxin Zhao
- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore
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- MajuLab, International Joint Research Unit UMI 3654, CNRS, Université Côte d'Azur, Sorbonne Université, National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore
- Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Département de physique de l'ENS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, CNRS, Paris 75005, France
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- CNR NANOTEC Institute of Nanotechnology, via Monteroni, Lecce 73100, Italy
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore
- MajuLab, International Joint Research Unit UMI 3654, CNRS, Université Côte d'Azur, Sorbonne Université, National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore
- State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics and Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R. China
- Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing 100193, P.R. China
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Pickup L, Sigurdsson H, Ruostekoski J, Lagoudakis PG. Synthetic band-structure engineering in polariton crystals with non-Hermitian topological phases. Nat Commun 2020; 11:4431. [PMID: 32887871 PMCID: PMC7474071 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18213-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2020] [Accepted: 07/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Synthetic crystal lattices provide ideal environments for simulating and exploring the band structure of solid-state materials in clean and controlled experimental settings. Physical realisations have, so far, dominantly focused on implementing irreversible patterning of the system, or interference techniques such as optical lattices of cold atoms. Here, we realise reprogrammable synthetic band-structure engineering in an all optical exciton-polariton lattice. We demonstrate polariton condensation into excited states of linear one-dimensional lattices, periodic rings, dimerised non-trivial topological phases, and defect modes utilising malleable optically imprinted non-Hermitian potential landscapes. The stable excited nature of the condensate lattice with strong interactions between sites results in an actively tuneable non-Hermitian analogue of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger system. To simulate band structures of solid state materials synthetic lattices are usually generated by optical lattices or by irreversible patterning the system. Here, the authors present reconfigurable synthetic band-structures in optical exciton-polariton lattices and generate non-Hermitian topological phases.
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- L Pickup
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.,Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Novaya Street 100, Skolkovo, 143025, Russian Federation
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- Physics Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YB, UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK. .,Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Novaya Street 100, Skolkovo, 143025, Russian Federation.
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Dusel M, Betzold S, Egorov OA, Klembt S, Ohmer J, Fischer U, Höfling S, Schneider C. Room temperature organic exciton-polariton condensate in a lattice. Nat Commun 2020; 11:2863. [PMID: 32514026 PMCID: PMC7280250 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16656-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2020] [Accepted: 05/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Interacting Bosons in artificial lattices have emerged as a modern platform to explore collective manybody phenomena and exotic phases of matter as well as to enable advanced on-chip simulators. On chip, exciton–polaritons emerged as a promising system to implement and study bosonic non-linear systems in lattices, demanding cryogenic temperatures. We discuss an experiment conducted on a polaritonic lattice at ambient conditions: We utilize fluorescent proteins providing ultra-stable Frenkel excitons. Their soft nature allows for mechanically shaping them in the photonic lattice. We demonstrate controlled loading of the coherent condensate in distinct orbital lattice modes of different symmetries. Finally, we explore the self-localization of the condensate in a gap-state, driven by the interplay of effective interaction and negative effective mass in our lattice. We believe that this work establishes organic polaritons as a serious contender to the well-established GaAs platform for a wide range of applications relying on coherent Bosons in lattices. Many studies of polariton condensates have been limited to low temperatures. Here the authors demonstrate ambient polariton condensation in lattices using organic traps that profit from the stability of organic excitons and the large Rabi splitting.
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- M Dusel
- Technische Physik, Physikalisches Institut and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg, 97074, Germany.
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- Technische Physik, Physikalisches Institut and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg, 97074, Germany
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- Institute of Condensed Matter Theory and Solid State Optics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Max-Wien-Platz 1, Jena, 07743, Germany
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- Technische Physik, Physikalisches Institut and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg, 97074, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg, 97074, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg, 97074, Germany
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- Technische Physik, Physikalisches Institut and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg, 97074, Germany.,SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, KY16 9SS, UK
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- Technische Physik, Physikalisches Institut and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg, 97074, Germany.
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Jie Q, Zhang K, Lai CW, Hsu FK, Zhang W, Luo S, Lee YS, Lin SD, Chen Z, Xie W. Room-Temperature Macroscopic Coherence of Two Electron-Hole Plasmas in a Microcavity. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 124:157402. [PMID: 32357015 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.157402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2019] [Revised: 08/06/2019] [Accepted: 03/19/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Macroscopic coherence of Bose condensates is a fundamental and practical phenomenon in many-body systems, such as the long-range correlation of exciton-polariton condensates with a dipole density typically below the exciton Mott-transition limit. Here we extend the macroscopic coherence of electron-hole-photon interacting systems to a new region in the phase diagram-the high-density plasma region, where long-range correlation is generally assumed to be broken due to the rapid dephasing. Nonetheless, a cooperative state of electron-hole plasma does emerge through the sharing of the superfluorescence field in an optical microcavity. In addition to the in situ coherence of e-h plasma, a long-range correlation is formed between two 8-μm-spaced plasma ensembles even at room temperature. Quantized and self-modulated correlation modes are generated for e-h ensembles in the plasma region. By controlling the distance between the two ensembles, multiple coupling regimes are revealed, from strong correlation to perturbative phase correlation and finally to an incoherent classical case, which has potential implications for tunable and high-temperature-compatible quantum devices.
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- Qi Jie
- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, Michigan 48824, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, and Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Shanxi 030006, China
- Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai 201315, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan 32001, Taiwan
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- Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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Abdalla AS, Zou B, Zhang Y. Optical Josephson oscillation achieved by two coupled exciton-polariton condensates. OPTICS EXPRESS 2020; 28:9136-9148. [PMID: 32225526 DOI: 10.1364/oe.389486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2020] [Accepted: 03/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Two coupled exciton-polariton condensates (EPCs) in a double-well photonic potential are suggested to form the optical Josephson oscillation (JO) whose dependences on the pump arrangement, the potential geometry, and the exciton-photon detuning are studied through the Gross-Pitaevskii equations. When the pump detuning is slightly positive with respect to the polariton energy and the phase difference between the two EPCs is near π/2 (both are controlled by the pump beams), the system demonstrates the optical JO. The optical JO tunneling strength (J) depends on the distance (d) and barrier (Λ) between the two wells, for which an empirical formula is fitted, i.e., J≈0.42exp(-d Λ/18.4) with the energy and length units in meV and μm. Since the double-well potential adopted is general, this fitting relation can show a guidance in practice for designing the optical devices based on the optical JO.
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Ko D, Sun M, Andreanov A, Rubo YG, Savenko IG. Partial quantum revivals of localized condensates in distorted lattices. OPTICS LETTERS 2020; 45:1571-1574. [PMID: 32164019 DOI: 10.1364/ol.386848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2020] [Accepted: 02/14/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We report on a peculiar propagation of bosons loaded by a short Laguerre-Gaussian pulse in a nearly flat band of a lattice potential. Taking a system of exciton polaritons in a kagome lattice as an example, we show that an initially localized condensate propagates in a specific direction in space, if anisotropy is taken into account. This propagation consists of quantum jumps, collapses, and revivals of the whole compact states, and it persists given any direction of anisotropy. This property reveals its signatures in the tight-binding model, and, surprisingly, it is much more pronounced in a continuous model. Quantum revivals are robust to the repulsive interaction and finite lifetime of the particles. Since no magnetic field or spin-orbit interaction is required, this system provides a new kind of easily implementable optical logic.
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Barkhausen F, Schumacher S, Ma X. Multistable circular currents of polariton condensates trapped in ring potentials. OPTICS LETTERS 2020; 45:1192-1195. [PMID: 32108803 DOI: 10.1364/ol.386250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2019] [Accepted: 01/27/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We demonstrate the formation and trapping of different stationary solutions, oscillatory solutions, and rotating solutions of a polariton condensate in a planar semiconductor microcavity with a built-in ring-shaped potential well. Multistable ring-shaped solutions are trapped in shallow potential wells. These solutions have the same ring-shaped density distribution but different topological charges, corresponding to different orbital angular momentum (OAM) of the emitted light. For stronger confinement potentials, besides the fundamental modes, higher excited (dipole) modes can also be trapped. If two modes are excited simultaneously, their beating produces a complex oscillation or rotation dynamics. When the two modes have the same OAM, a double-ring solution forms for which the density oscillates between the inner and the outer ring. When the two modes have different OAM, a rotating solution with fractional OAM is created.
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Kartashov YV, Zezyulin DA. Rotating patterns in polariton condensates in ring-shaped potentials under a bichromatic pump. OPTICS LETTERS 2019; 44:4805-4808. [PMID: 31568447 DOI: 10.1364/ol.44.004805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2019] [Accepted: 09/02/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We consider a polariton condensate in a microcavity driven by a bichromatic resonant pump formed by two vortical laser beams carrying different topological charges. The system is additionally confined in a ring-shaped potential. We show that in this system, steadily rotating nonlinear localized modes can be excited, whose angular rotation frequency is determined by optical frequencies and topological charges of the pump beams. When pump frequencies approach eigenfrequencies of the modes of the ring potential, resonant growth of peak amplitude of the excited states occurs. Repulsive polariton-polariton interactions lead to tilting of the resonance curves and appearance of bistability of rotating patterns.
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Xu C, Zhou B, Wang X, Tian C, Zhang Y, Dong H, Wang G, Zhou W. Dynamics of excited-state condensate for optically confined exciton-polaritons. OPTICS EXPRESS 2019; 27:24938-24944. [PMID: 31510374 DOI: 10.1364/oe.27.024938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2019] [Accepted: 07/29/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We report experimental studies on the dynamics of excited-state condensate for exciton-polaritons confined in an optically generated trap. The three-dimensionally confined trap was realized by imposing two optical barriers onto a one-dimensional ZnO whispering gallery microcavity. Experimentally, we characterized the confined polariton condensate by varying the trap width and the barrier height. Theoretically, we calculated the spatial overlap between the polariton wavefunction and the excitonic reservoir. Direct comparison of these results verified that such polariton-reservoir overlap was responsible for the observed excited-state polariton condensate.
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Zhang C, Wang Y, Zhang W. Topological phase transition with p orbitals in the exciton-polariton honeycomb lattice. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2019; 31:335403. [PMID: 31100741 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ab2289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We study the topological phase transition with the TE-TM splitting in the p-orbital exciton-polariton honeycomb lattice. We find that some Dirac points survive at the high-symmetry points with space-inversion symmetry breaking, which reflects the characteristic of p orbitals. A phase diagram is obtained by the gap Chern number, from which the topological phase transition takes place in the intermediate gap. There is no topological phase transition in the bottom or top gap, and its edge state has the potential application for transporting signals in optoelectronic devices. When taking into account the non-degenerate p orbitals, we find that the bottom gap arises owing to the competition between the Zeeman energy and rotating angular velocity, and topological phase transition also appears in the complete gaps. These results can facilitate the experimental investigations of the topological properties of p-orbital exciton-polariton lattice structure.
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- Chuanyi Zhang
- Henan Key Laboratory of Photovoltaic Materials, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, People's Republic of China. Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, United States of America
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Zhang X, Zhang Y, Dong H, Tang B, Li D, Tian C, Xu C, Zhou W. Room temperature exciton-polariton condensate in an optically-controlled trap. NANOSCALE 2019; 11:4496-4502. [PMID: 30806407 DOI: 10.1039/c8nr08839j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We report experimental studies on the optical properties of an exciton polariton condensate confined in an optically defined trap at room temperature. As a result of the parabolic profile of the optical trap, the polariton condensate redistributes itself in simple harmonic oscillator states, forming an analog of the gravity pendulum. We observed the coexistence of two harmonic oscillator modes in a single trap, which were confirmed to be confined modes connected by longitudinal optical (LO) phonons using Raman spectroscopy. Clear features of mode competition behaviors were observed for these two harmonic oscillators when the injection rate of polaritons was varied. The observed mode competition was successfully simulated by a three-level rate equation model. In addition, as a result of the bosonic stimulation in the trap region, up to ∼88% of the injected polaritons were successfully trapped when polariton lasing takes place.
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- Xinhan Zhang
- Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.
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Miao R, Zhang Y, Tang Y, You J, Zhang Y, Shi L, Jiang T. Photoluminescence enhancement and ultrafast relaxation dynamics in a low-dimensional heterostructure: effect of plasmon-exciton coupling. OPTICS LETTERS 2018; 43:6093-6096. [PMID: 30548013 DOI: 10.1364/ol.43.006093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2018] [Accepted: 10/31/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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In this work, we present an in-depth study on a low-dimensional heterostructure comprising monolayer (ML) tungsten disulfide (WS2) and 1D plasmonic photonic crystal (PPC). Stable-state photoluminescence (PL) experiments are employed to study the optical properties of WS2 films with and without PPC. In addition, angle-resolved reflectance and PL microscopy measurements are used to identify the coupling effects between ML WS2 and 1D PPC. Furthermore, by means of femtosecond pump-probe experiments, the relaxation time for the newly proposed heterostructure is extracted to be 0.74 ps and 21.9 ps. Importantly, the underlying mechanism of the relaxation processes is also revealed in the hybrid for the first time, to the best of our knowledge.
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Gao T, Egorov OA, Estrecho E, Winkler K, Kamp M, Schneider C, Höfling S, Truscott AG, Ostrovskaya EA. Controlled Ordering of Topological Charges in an Exciton-Polariton Chain. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2018; 121:225302. [PMID: 30547627 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.225302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We demonstrate, experimentally and theoretically, controlled loading of an exciton-polariton vortex chain into a 1D array of trapping potentials. Switching between two types of vortex chains, with topological charges of the same or alternating signs, is achieved by appropriately shaping an off-resonant pump beam that drives the system to the regime of bosonic condensation. In analogy to spin chains, these vortex sequences realize either a "ferromagnetic" or an "antiferromagnetic" order, whereby the role of spin is played by the orbital angular momentum. The ferromagnetic ordering of vortices is associated with the formation of a persistent chiral current. Our results pave the way for the controlled creation of nontrivial distributions of orbital angular momentum and topological order in a periodic exciton-polariton system.
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- T Gao
- Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
- Institute of Molecular Plus, Tianjin University, 300072 Tianjin, China
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- Technische Physik, Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen-Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
- Institute of Condensed Matter Theory and Optics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Max-Wien-Platz 1, D-07743 Jena, Germany
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- Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Technische Physik, Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen-Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Technische Physik, Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen-Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Technische Physik, Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen-Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Technische Physik, Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen-Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews KY16 9SS, United Kingdom
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- Laser Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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Jamadi O, Reveret F, Disseix P, Medard F, Leymarie J, Moreau A, Solnyshkov D, Deparis C, Leroux M, Cambril E, Bouchoule S, Zuniga-Perez J, Malpuech G. Edge-emitting polariton laser and amplifier based on a ZnO waveguide. LIGHT, SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS 2018; 7:82. [PMID: 30393535 PMCID: PMC6207564 DOI: 10.1038/s41377-018-0084-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2018] [Revised: 09/26/2018] [Accepted: 09/26/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We demonstrate edge-emitting exciton-polariton (polariton) laser operation from 5 to 300 K and polariton amplifiers based on polariton modes within ZnO waveguides. The guided mode dispersion below and above the lasing threshold is directly measured using gratings placed on top of the sample, fully demonstrating the polaritonic nature of the lasing modes. The threshold is found to be smaller than that expected for radiative polaritons in planar ZnO microcavities below 150 K and comparable above. These results open up broad perspectives for guided polaritonics by enabling easier and more straightforward implementation of polariton integrated circuits that exploit fast propagating polaritons, and, possibly, topological protection.
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- O. Jamadi
- Institut Pascal, PHOTON-N2, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Institut Pascal, PHOTON-N2, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Institut Pascal, PHOTON-N2, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Institut Pascal, PHOTON-N2, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Institut Pascal, PHOTON-N2, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Institut Pascal, PHOTON-N2, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Institut Pascal, PHOTON-N2, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- UCA, CRHEA-CNRS, Valbonne, F-06560 France
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- UCA, CRHEA-CNRS, Valbonne, F-06560 France
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- Centre Nanosciences et Nanotechnologies (C2N), CNRS, University Paris-Saclay, Marcoussis, F-91460 France
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- Centre Nanosciences et Nanotechnologies (C2N), CNRS, University Paris-Saclay, Marcoussis, F-91460 France
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- Institut Pascal, PHOTON-N2, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Wang J, Su R, Xing J, Bao D, Diederichs C, Liu S, Liew TCH, Chen Z, Xiong Q. Room Temperature Coherently Coupled Exciton-Polaritons in Two-Dimensional Organic-Inorganic Perovskite. ACS NANO 2018; 12:8382-8389. [PMID: 30089200 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b03737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Two-dimensional (2D) organic-inorganic perovskite semiconductors with natural multiquantum well structures and confined 2D excitons are intriguing for the study of strong exciton-photon coupling, due to their large exciton binding energy and oscillation strength. This strong coupling leads to a formation of the half-light half-matter bosonic quasiparticle called exciton-polariton, consisting of a linear superposition state between photonic and excitonic states. Here, we demonstrate room temperature strong coupling in exfoliated wavelength-tunable 2D organic-inorganic perovskite semiconductors embedded into a planar microcavity, exhibiting large energetic splitting-to-line width ratios (>34.2). Angular-dependent spectroscopy measurements reveal that hybridized polariton states act as an ultrafast and reversible energy oscillation, involving 2D perovskite exciton, cavity modes (CM), and Bragg modes of the distributed Bragg reflector. Meanwhile, sizable hybrid particles dominantly couple to the measured optical field through the CMs. Our findings advocate a considerable promise of 2D organic-inorganic perovskite to explore fundamental quantum phenomena such as Bose-Einstein condensation, superfluidity, and exciton-polariton networks.
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- Jun Wang
- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 637371
- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), Department of Physics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures , Fudan University , Shanghai 200433 , P.R. China
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 637371
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 637371
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 637371
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- MajuLab, CNRS-UCA-SU-NUS-NTU International Joint Research Unit, UMI 3654, Singapore 639798
- Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Département de physique de l'ENS, Ecole normale supérieure, PSL Research University, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité , Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, CNRS , Paris 75005 , France
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 637371
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 637371
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), Department of Physics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures , Fudan University , Shanghai 200433 , P.R. China
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 637371
- MajuLab, CNRS-UCA-SU-NUS-NTU International Joint Research Unit, UMI 3654, Singapore 639798
- NOVITAS, Nanoelectronics Center of Excellence, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 639798
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Zhang Y, Zhang X, Tang B, Tian C, Xu C, Dong H, Zhou W. Realization of an all-optically controlled dynamic superlattice for exciton-polaritons. NANOSCALE 2018; 10:14082-14089. [PMID: 29999095 DOI: 10.1039/c8nr02190b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Exciton-polaritons, formed by the strong coupling between excitons and cavity-confined photons, are the building blocks of polaritonic devices. In this work, we report experimental realization of an all-optically controlled dynamic superlattice for polaritons working in the ultraviolet wavelength range at room temperature. The optical superlattice was realized on a one-dimensional (1D) ZnO microrod using an array of periodically arranged laser spots. Polaritonic mini-band features were clearly observed by both momentum- and real-space imaging spectroscopy. By controlling the periodicity of the laser spots, we demonstrated that the band structures of polaritons can be well controlled by external lasers. Theoretically, by extending the Kronig-Penney model to the polariton system, we calculated the polaritonic mini-bands and found it to be in good agreement with our experimental observations. By imaging the polariton flow in real space, the lifetime of polaritons and their relationship with their exitonic fractions were also extracted. The polaritonic superlattices demonstrated in this work are fully reconfigurable and optically controlled, and our results could thus stimulate the development of polaritonic all-optical devices.
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- Yingjun Zhang
- Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.
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- Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Materials for High-Power Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China.
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- Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.
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- Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Materials for High-Power Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China.
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- Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.
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Gartstein YN, Malko AV. Guiding and binding of cavity photons with patterned two-dimensional semiconductors. OPTICS EXPRESS 2018; 26:20823-20834. [PMID: 30119386 DOI: 10.1364/oe.26.020823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2018] [Accepted: 07/19/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Strong optical responses of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors like transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) draw substantial attention for prospective applications in optoelectronics and photonics. Here, we propose a potentially attractive application avenue via embedding patterns of 2D semiconductors (shaped, e.g., as strips or disks) in planar optical microcavities to engineer photonic modes in the dissipation-free spectral range below the optical gap. While the cavity confines electromagnetic fields to its interior, the high in-plane polarizability of 2D materials causes the appearance of the cavity modes that are bound to the patterned pieces in the lateral directions along the cavity. A TMD strip would then act to guide such bound cavity photons, while a pair of neighboring strips could operate similar to coupled photonic waveguides. Our calculations relying on experimentally measured TMD optical suspectibilities, explicitly demonstrate this type of behavior accompanied by photonic binding energies on the order of 10 meV and micron-scale spatial extents. They indicate that patterned 2D semiconductor structures employed within microcavities could represent a new material platform to enable various functionalities of integrated photonics.
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Klaas M, Schlottmann E, Flayac H, Laussy FP, Gericke F, Schmidt M, Helversen MV, Beyer J, Brodbeck S, Suchomel H, Höfling S, Reitzenstein S, Schneider C. Photon-Number-Resolved Measurement of an Exciton-Polariton Condensate. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2018; 121:047401. [PMID: 30095927 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.047401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We measure the full photon-number distribution emitted from a Bose condensate of microcavity exciton polaritons confined in a micropillar cavity. The statistics are acquired by means of a photon-number-resolving transition edge sensor. We directly observe that the photon-number distribution evolves with the nonresonant optical excitation power from geometric to quasi-Poissonian statistics, which is canonical for a transition from a thermal to a coherent state. Moreover, the photon-number distribution allows one to evaluate the higher-order photon correlations, shedding further light on the coherence formation and phase transition of the polariton condensate. The experimental data are analyzed in terms of thermal-coherent states, which gives direct access to the thermal and coherent fraction from the measured distributions. These results pave the way for a full understanding of the contribution of interactions in light-matter condensates in the coherence buildup at threshold.
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- M Klaas
- Technische Physik, Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen-Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstraße 36, D-10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna St, Wolverhampton WV1 1LY, United Kingdom
- Russian Quantum Center, Novaya 100, 143025 Skolkovo, Moscow Region, Russia
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- Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstraße 36, D-10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstraße 36, D-10623, Berlin, Germany
- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Abbestrasse 2-12, 10587 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstraße 36, D-10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Abbestrasse 2-12, 10587 Berlin, Germany
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- Technische Physik, Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen-Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Technische Physik, Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen-Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Technische Physik, Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen-Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9SS, United Kingdom
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- Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstraße 36, D-10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Technische Physik, Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen-Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
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Zhang Y, Dong H, Zhang X, Tang B, Tian C, Xu C, Zhou W. Fabry-Perot type polariton modes and their dynamics revealed by Young's interference experiment. OPTICS EXPRESS 2018; 26:18214-18221. [PMID: 30114101 DOI: 10.1364/oe.26.018214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2018] [Accepted: 06/26/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We report experimental studies on the Fabry-Perot (F-P) type polariton modes and their dynamics using a modified Young's double-slit interference technique. The technique was based on the angle-resolved micro-photoluminescence spectroscopy and optimized for nanostructure measurements. Using this technique, we directly revealed the parity of the F-P type polariton modes from the angle-dependent interference spectra. Moreover, clear features of mode competition were observed from the power dependence of the interference patterns. The observed competition behaviors can be well simulated by a five-level rate equation model.
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Abdullaev FK, Salerno M. Dissipative solitons in the discrete Ginzburg-Landau equation with saturable nonlinearity. Phys Rev E 2018; 97:052208. [PMID: 29906973 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.97.052208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2018] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The modulational instability of nonlinear plane waves and the existence of periodic and localized dissipative solitons and waves of the discrete Ginzburg-Landau equation with saturable nonlinearity are investigated. Explicit analytic expressions for periodic solutions with a zero and a finite background are derived and their stability properties investigated by means of direct numerical simulations. We find that while discrete periodic waves and solitons on a zero background are stable under time evolution, they may become modulationally unstable on finite backgrounds. The effects of a linear ramp potential on stable localized dissipative solitons are also briefly discussed.
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- Dipartimento di Fisica E.R. Caianiello and INFN, Gruppo Collegato di Salerno, Universita di Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 84084 Fisciano, Salerno, Italy
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Cheng SC, Chen TW. Dark gap solitons in exciton-polariton condensates in a periodic potential. Phys Rev E 2018; 97:032212. [PMID: 29776165 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.97.032212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We show that dark spatial gap solitons can occur inside the band gap of an exciton-polariton condensate (EPC) in a one-dimensional periodic potential. The energy dispersions of an EPC loaded into a periodic potential show a band-gap structure. Using the effective-mass model of the complex Gross-Pitaevskii equation with pump and dissipation in an EPC in a periodic potential, dark gap solitons are demonstrated near the minimum energy points of the band center and band edge of the first and second bands, respectively. The excitation energies of dark gap solitons are below these minimum points and fall into the band gap. The spatial width of a dark gap soliton becomes smaller as the pump power is increased.
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- Szu-Cheng Cheng
- Department of Optoelectric Physics, Chinese Culture University, Taipei 11114, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Department of Electrophysics, National Chiayi University, Chiayi city 60004, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Lebedev ME, Dolinina DA, Hong KB, Lu TC, Kavokin AV, Alodjants AP. Exciton-polariton Josephson junctions at finite temperatures. Sci Rep 2017; 7:9515. [PMID: 28842628 PMCID: PMC5572052 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-09824-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2017] [Accepted: 07/31/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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We consider finite temperature effects in a non-standard Bose-Hubbard model for an exciton- polariton Josephson junction (JJ) that is characterised by complicated potential energy landscapes (PEL) consisting of sets of barriers and wells. We show that the transition between thermal activation (classical) and tunneling (quantum) regimes exhibits universal features of the first and second order phase transition (PT) depending on the PEL for two polariton condensates that might be described as transition from the thermal to the quantum annealing regime. In the presence of dissipation the relative phase of two condensates exhibits non-equilibrium PT from the quantum regime characterized by efficient tunneling of polaritons to the regime of permanent Josephson or Rabi oscillations, where the tunneling is suppressed, respectively. This analysis paves the way for the application of coupled polariton condensates for the realisation of a quantum annealing algorithm in presently experimentally accessible semiconductor microcavities possessing high (105 and more) Q-factors.
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- M E Lebedev
- ITMO University, St. Petersburg, 197101, Russia
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- Department of Photonics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, 300, Taiwan
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- Department of Photonics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, 300, Taiwan
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- Spin Optics Laboratory, St. Petersburg State University, Ul'anovskaya, Peterhof, St. Petersburg, 198504, Russia
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Istituto CNR-SPIN, Viale del Politecnico 1, I-00133, Rome, Italy
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- ITMO University, St. Petersburg, 197101, Russia.
- Vladimir State University named after A. G. and N. G. Stoletovs, Gorkii Street 87, Vladimir, Russia.
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Nalitov AV, Liew TCH, Kavokin AV, Altshuler BL, Rubo YG. Spontaneous Polariton Currents in Periodic Lateral Chains. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 119:067406. [PMID: 28949610 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.067406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We predict spontaneous generation of superfluid polariton currents in planar microcavities with lateral periodic modulation of both the potential and decay rate. A spontaneous breaking of spatial inversion symmetry of a polariton condensate emerges at a critical pumping, and the current direction is stochastically chosen. We analyze the stability of the current with respect to the fluctuations of the condensate. A peculiar spatial current domain structure emerges, where the current direction is switched at the domain walls, and the characteristic domain size and lifetime scale with the pumping power.
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- A V Nalitov
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
- CNR-SPIN, Viale del Politecnico 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy
- Spin Optics Laboratory, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg 198504, Russia
- Russian Quantum Center, 100 Novaya Street, Skolkovo, Moscow Region 143025, Russia
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- Physics Department, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
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- Instituto de Energías Renovables, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Temixco, Morelos 62580, Mexico
- Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon 34051, Republic of Korea
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Jayaprakash R, Kalaitzakis FG, Christmann G, Tsagaraki K, Hocevar M, Gayral B, Monroy E, Pelekanos NT. Ultra-low threshold polariton lasing at room temperature in a GaN membrane microcavity with a zero-dimensional trap. Sci Rep 2017; 7:5542. [PMID: 28717162 PMCID: PMC5514101 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-06125-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2016] [Accepted: 06/08/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Polariton lasers are coherent light sources based on the condensation of exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities, which occurs either in the kinetic or thermodynamic (Bose-Einstein) regime. Besides their fundamental interest, polariton lasers have the potential of extremely low operating thresholds. Here, we demonstrate ultra-low threshold polariton lasing at room temperature, using an all-dielectric, GaN membrane-based microcavity, with a spontaneously-formed zero-dimensional trap. The microcavity is fabricated using an innovative method, which involves photo-electrochemical etching of an InGaN sacrificial layer and allows for the incorporation of optimally-grown GaN active quantum wells inside a cavity with atomically-smooth surfaces. The resulting structure presents near-theoretical Q-factors and pronounced strong-coupling effects, with a record-high Rabi splitting of 64 meV at room-temperature. Polariton lasing is observed at threshold carrier densities 2.5 orders of magnitude lower than the exciton saturation density. Above threshold, angle-resolved emission spectra reveal an ordered pattern in k-space, attributed to polariton condensation at discrete levels of a single confinement site. This confinement mechanism along with the high material and optical quality of the microcavity, accounts for the enhanced performance of our polariton laser, and pave the way for further developments in the area of robust room temperature polaritonic devices.
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- R Jayaprakash
- Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, P.O. Box 2208, 71003, Heraklion, Greece.,Microelectronics Research Group, IESL-FORTH, P.O. Box 1385, 71110, Heraklion, Greece
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- Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, P.O. Box 2208, 71003, Heraklion, Greece.,Microelectronics Research Group, IESL-FORTH, P.O. Box 1385, 71110, Heraklion, Greece
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- Microelectronics Research Group, IESL-FORTH, P.O. Box 1385, 71110, Heraklion, Greece
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- Microelectronics Research Group, IESL-FORTH, P.O. Box 1385, 71110, Heraklion, Greece
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- Université Grenoble-Alpes, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CNRS, Inst NEEL, F-38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble-Alpes, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CEA, INAC-PHELIQS, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble-Alpes, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CEA, INAC-PHELIQS, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, P.O. Box 2208, 71003, Heraklion, Greece. .,Microelectronics Research Group, IESL-FORTH, P.O. Box 1385, 71110, Heraklion, Greece.
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Ma X, Egorov OA, Schumacher S. Creation and Manipulation of Stable Dark Solitons and Vortices in Microcavity Polariton Condensates. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 118:157401. [PMID: 28452514 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.157401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2016] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Solitons and vortices obtain widespread attention in different physical systems as they offer potential use in information storage, processing, and communication. In exciton-polariton condensates in semiconductor microcavities, solitons and vortices can be created optically. However, dark solitons are unstable and vortices cannot be spatially controlled. In the present work we demonstrate the existence of stable dark solitons and vortices under nonresonant incoherent excitation of a polariton condensate with a simple spatially periodic pump. In one dimension, we show that an additional coherent light pulse can be used to create or destroy a dark soliton in a controlled manner. In two dimensions we demonstrate that a coherent light beam can be used to move a vortex to a specific position on the lattice or be set into motion by simply switching the periodic pump structure from two-dimensional (lattice) to one-dimensional (stripes). Our theoretical results open up exciting possibilities for optical on-demand generation and control of dark solitons and vortices in polariton condensates.
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- Xuekai Ma
- Department of Physics and Center for Optoelectronics and Photonics Paderborn (CeOPP), Universität Paderborn, Warburger Strasse 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany
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- Institute of Condensed Matter Theory and Solid State Optics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Center for Optoelectronics and Photonics Paderborn (CeOPP), Universität Paderborn, Warburger Strasse 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany
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Tunable Bragg polaritons and nonlinear emission from a hybrid metal-unfolded ZnSe-based microcavity. Sci Rep 2017; 7:767. [PMID: 28396601 PMCID: PMC5429702 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-00878-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2017] [Accepted: 03/15/2017] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Strong light-matter interaction in Bragg structures possesses several advantages over conventional microcavity system. These structures provide an opportunity to incorporate a large number of quantum wells without increasing the mode volume. Further, it is expected that the strong coupling could occur over the entire thickness of the Bragg structure, and the system offers an improved overlap between exciton wave function and light mode. However, advanced experiments in Bragg structures require a precise control and manipulation of quantum states of Bragg polaritons. Here, we propose and experimentally demonstrate novel methods for the modulation of Bragg polariton eigenstates. The modulation will be shown to even exceed 10 meV if the thickness of the top layer of the ZnSe-based Bragg structure is changed or if a thin silver layer is deposited on top of the structure. The Q value of the Bragg mode will be enhanced by a factor of 2.3 for a 30 nm silver layer. In addition, we report on the observation of nonlinear emission of the lower Bragg polariton mode in the hybrid structure being achieved when excitation dependent measurements are performed. Our results open the door to create a confined Bragg polariton system similar to conventional microcavities.
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Multivalley engineering in semiconductor microcavities. Sci Rep 2017; 7:45243. [PMID: 28367953 PMCID: PMC5377251 DOI: 10.1038/srep45243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2017] [Accepted: 02/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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We consider exciton-photon coupling in semiconductor microcavities in which separate periodic potentials have been embedded for excitons and photons. We show theoretically that this system supports degenerate ground-states appearing at non-zero inplane momenta, corresponding to multiple valleys in reciprocal space, which are further separated in polarization corresponding to a polarization-valley coupling in the system. Aside forming a basis for valleytronics, the multivalley dispersion is predicted to allow for spontaneous momentum symmetry breaking and two-mode squeezing under non-resonant and resonant excitation, respectively.
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Foss-Feig M, Niroula P, Young JT, Hafezi M, Gorshkov AV, Wilson RM, Maghrebi MF. Emergent equilibrium in many-body optical bistability. PHYSICAL REVIEW. A 2017; 95:10.1103/PhysRevA.95.043826. [PMID: 31093586 PMCID: PMC6513354 DOI: 10.1103/physreva.95.043826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Many-body systems constructed of quantum-optical building blocks can now be realized in experimental platforms ranging from exciton-polariton fluids to ultracold Rydberg gases, establishing a fascinating interface between traditional many-body physics and the driven-dissipative, nonequilibrium setting of cavity QED. At this interface, the standard techniques and intuitions of both fields are called into question, obscuring issues as fundamental as the role of fluctuations, dimensionality, and symmetry on the nature of collective behavior and phase transitions. Here, we study the driven-dissipative Bose-Hubbard model, a minimal description of numerous atomic, optical, and solid-state systems in which particle loss is countered by coherent driving. Despite being a lattice version of optical bistability, a foundational and patently nonequilibrium model of cavity QED, the steady state possesses an emergent equilibrium description in terms of a classical Ising model. We establish this picture by making new connections between traditional techniques from many-body physics (functional integrals) and quantum optics (the system-size expansion). To lowest order in a controlled expansion-organized around the experimentally relevant limit of weak interactions-the full quantum dynamics reduces to nonequilibrium Langevin equations, which support a phase transition described by model A of the Hohenberg-Halperin classification. Numerical simulations of the Langevin equations corroborate this picture, revealing that canonical behavior associated with the Ising model manifests readily in simple experimental observables.
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- M Foss-Feig
- United States Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, Maryland 20783, USA
- Joint Quantum Institute, NIST and University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
- Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, NIST and University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Joint Quantum Institute, NIST and University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
- Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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- Joint Quantum Institute, NIST and University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Joint Quantum Institute, NIST and University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Joint Quantum Institute, NIST and University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
- Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, NIST and University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Department of Physics, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland 21402, USA
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- Joint Quantum Institute, NIST and University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
- Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, NIST and University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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Schneider C, Winkler K, Fraser MD, Kamp M, Yamamoto Y, Ostrovskaya EA, Höfling S. Exciton-polariton trapping and potential landscape engineering. REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. PHYSICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) 2017; 80:016503. [PMID: 27841166 DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/80/1/016503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities have become a model system for the studies of dynamical Bose-Einstein condensation, macroscopic coherence, many-body effects, nonclassical states of light and matter, and possibly quantum phase transitions in a solid state. These low-mass bosonic quasiparticles can condense at comparatively high temperatures up to 300 K, and preserve the fundamental properties of the condensate, such as coherence in space and time domain, even when they are out of equilibrium with the environment. Although the presence of a confining potential is not strictly necessary in order to observe Bose-Einstein condensation, engineering of the polariton confinement is a key to controlling, shaping, and directing the flow of polaritons. Prototype polariton-based optoelectronic devices rely on ultrafast photon-like velocities and strong nonlinearities exhibited by polaritons, as well as on their tailored confinement. Nanotechnology provides several pathways to achieving polariton confinement, and the specific features and advantages of different methods are discussed in this review. Being hybrid exciton-photon quasiparticles, polaritons can be trapped via their excitonic as well as photonic component, which leads to a wide choice of highly complementary trapping techniques. Here, we highlight the almost free choice of the confinement strengths and trapping geometries that provide powerful means for control and manipulation of the polariton systems both in the semi-classical and quantum regimes. Furthermore, the possibilities to observe effects of the polariton blockade, Mott insulator physics, and population of higher-order energy bands in sophisticated lattice potentials are discussed. Observation of such effects could lead to realization of novel polaritonic non-classical light sources and quantum simulators.
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- C Schneider
- Technische Physik, Physikalisches Institut and Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen-Research Center for Complex Material Systems, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
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Kartashov YV, Skryabin DV. Two-dimensional lattice solitons in polariton condensates with spin-orbit coupling. OPTICS LETTERS 2016; 41:5043-5046. [PMID: 27805681 DOI: 10.1364/ol.41.005043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We study two-dimensional fundamental and vortex solitons in polariton condensates with spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman splitting evolving in square arrays of microcavity pillars. Due to the repulsive excitonic nonlinearity, such states are encountered in finite gaps in the spectrum of the periodic array. Spin-orbit coupling between two polarization components stemming from the TE-TM energy splitting of the cavity photons acting together with Zeeman splitting lifts the degeneracy between vortex solitons with opposite topological charges and makes their density profiles different for a fixed energy. This results in the formation of four distinct families of vortex solitons with topological charges m=±1, all of which can be stable. At the same time, only two stable families of fundamental gap solitons characterized by the domination of different polarization components are encountered.
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Rahman SSU, Klein T, Klembt S, Gutowski J, Hommel D, Sebald K. Observation of a hybrid state of Tamm plasmons and microcavity exciton polaritons. Sci Rep 2016; 6:34392. [PMID: 27698359 PMCID: PMC5048173 DOI: 10.1038/srep34392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2016] [Accepted: 09/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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We present evidence for the existence of a hybrid state of Tamm plasmons and microcavity exciton polaritons in a II-VI material based microcavity sample covered with an Ag metal layer. The bare cavity mode shows a characteristic anticrossing with the Tamm-plasmon mode, when microreflectivity measurements are performed for different detunings between the Tamm plasmon and the cavity mode. When the Tamm-plasmon mode is in resonance with the cavity polariton four hybrid eigenstates are observed due to the coupling of the cavity-photon mode, the Tamm-plasmon mode, and the heavy- and light-hole excitons. If the bare Tamm-plasmon mode is tuned, these resonances will exhibit three anticrossings. Experimental results are in good agreement with calculations based on the transfer matrix method as well as on the coupled-oscillators model. The lowest hybrid eigenstate is observed to be red shifted by about 13 meV with respect to the lower cavity polariton state when the Tamm plasmon is resonantly coupled with the cavity polariton. This spectral shift which is caused by the metal layer can be used to create a trapping potential channel for the polaritons. Such channels can guide the polariton propagation similar to one-dimensional polariton wires.
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- Sk Shaid-Ur Rahman
- Semiconductor Optics, Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, 28334, Germany
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- Semiconductor Epitaxy, Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, 28334, Germany
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- Semiconductor Epitaxy, Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, 28334, Germany
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- Semiconductor Optics, Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, 28334, Germany
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- Semiconductor Epitaxy, Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, 28334, Germany
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- Semiconductor Optics, Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, 28334, Germany
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Sanvitto D, Kéna-Cohen S. The road towards polaritonic devices. NATURE MATERIALS 2016; 15:1061-73. [PMID: 27429208 DOI: 10.1038/nmat4668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 188] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2014] [Accepted: 05/18/2016] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Polaritons are quasiparticles that form in semiconductors when an elementary excitation such as an exciton or a phonon interacts sufficiently strongly with light. In particular, exciton-polaritons have attracted tremendous attention for their unique properties, spanning from an ability to undergo ultra-efficient four-wave mixing to superfluidity in the condensed state. These quasiparticles possess strong intrinsic nonlinearities, while keeping most characteristics of the underlying photons. Here we review the most important features of exciton-polaritons in microcavities, with a particular emphasis on the emerging technological applications, the use of new materials for room-temperature operation, and the possibility of exploiting polaritons for quantum computation and simulation.
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- Daniele Sanvitto
- CNR - NANOTEC, Istituto di Nanotecnologia, Via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy
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- Department of Engineering Physics, École Polytechnique de Montréal, PO Box 6079, Station Centre-Ville Montréal, Quebec H3C 3A7, Canada
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Gao T, Estrecho E, Li G, Egorov OA, Ma X, Winkler K, Kamp M, Schneider C, Höfling S, Truscott AG, Ostrovskaya EA. Talbot Effect for Exciton Polaritons. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2016; 117:097403. [PMID: 27610883 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.117.097403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We demonstrate, experimentally and theoretically, a Talbot effect for hybrid light-matter waves-an exciton-polariton condensate formed in a semiconductor microcavity with embedded quantum wells. The characteristic "Talbot carpet" is produced by loading the exciton-polariton condensate into a microstructured one-dimensional periodic array of mesa traps, which creates an array of phase-locked sources for coherent polariton flow in the plane of the quantum wells. The spatial distribution of the Talbot fringes outside the mesas mimics the near-field diffraction of a monochromatic wave on a periodic amplitude and phase grating with the grating period comparable to the wavelength. Despite the lossy nature of the polariton system, the Talbot pattern persists for distances exceeding the size of the mesas by an order of magnitude. Thus, our experiment demonstrates efficient shaping of the two-dimensional flow of coherent exciton polaritons by a one-dimensional "flat lens."
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- T Gao
- Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
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- Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
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- Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
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- Institute of Condensed Matter Theory and Solid State Optics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Center for Optoelectronics and Photonics Paderborn (CeOPP), Universität Paderborn, Warburger Strasse 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany
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- Technische Physik, Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen-Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Technische Physik, Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen-Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Technische Physik, Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen-Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Technische Physik, Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen-Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA), School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9SS, United Kingdom
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- Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
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- Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
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Ohadi H, Del Valle-Inclan Redondo Y, Dreismann A, Rubo YG, Pinsker F, Tsintzos SI, Hatzopoulos Z, Savvidis PG, Baumberg JJ. Tunable Magnetic Alignment between Trapped Exciton-Polariton Condensates. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2016; 116:106403. [PMID: 27015497 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.116.106403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2015] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Tunable spin correlations are found to arise between two neighboring trapped exciton-polariton condensates which spin polarize spontaneously. We observe a crossover from an antiferromagnetic to a ferromagnetic pair state by reducing the coupling barrier in real time using control of the imprinted pattern of pump light. Fast optical switching of both condensates is then achieved by resonantly but weakly triggering only a single condensate. These effects can be explained as the competition between spin bifurcations and spin-preserving Josephson coupling between the two condensates, and open the way to polariton Bose-Hubbard ladders.
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- H Ohadi
- Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
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- Instituto de Energías Renovables, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Temixco, Morelos 62580, Mexico
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- Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
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- Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, 71110 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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- Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, 71110 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- CCQCN, Department of Physics, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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- Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, 71110 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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- Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
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Zhao X, Zhang Y, Zhang Q, Zou B, Schwingenschlogl U. Transmission comb of a distributed Bragg reflector with two surface dielectric gratings. Sci Rep 2016; 6:21125. [PMID: 26893069 PMCID: PMC4759698 DOI: 10.1038/srep21125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2015] [Accepted: 01/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The transmission behaviour of a distributed Bragg reector (DBR) with surface dielectric gratings on top and bottom is studied. The transmission shows a comb-like spectrum in the DBR band gap, which is explained in the Fano picture. The number density of the transmission peaks increases with increasing number of cells of the DBR, while the ratio of the average full width at half maximum to the corresponding average free spectral range, being only few percent for both transversal electric and magnetic waves, is almost invariant. The transmission peaks can be narrower than 0.1 nm and are fully separated from each other in certain wavebands. We further prove that the transmission combs are robust against randomness in the heights of the DBR layers. Therefore, the proposed structure is a candidate for an ultra-narrow-band multichannel filter or polarizer.
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- Xiaobo Zhao
- Beijing Key Lab of Nanophotonics &Ultrafine Optoelectronic Systems and School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- Beijing Key Lab of Nanophotonics &Ultrafine Optoelectronic Systems and School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.,King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Physical Science and Engineering Division (PSE), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Physical Science and Engineering Division (PSE), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Beijing Key Lab of Nanophotonics &Ultrafine Optoelectronic Systems and School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Physical Science and Engineering Division (PSE), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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Laptyeva TV, Tikhomirov AA, Kanakov OI, Ivanchenko MV. Anderson attractors in active arrays. Sci Rep 2015; 5:13263. [PMID: 26304462 PMCID: PMC4548239 DOI: 10.1038/srep13263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2015] [Accepted: 07/23/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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In dissipationless linear media, spatial disorder induces Anderson localization of matter, light, and sound waves. The addition of nonlinearity causes interaction between the eigenmodes, which results in a slow wave diffusion. We go beyond the dissipationless limit of Anderson arrays and consider nonlinear disordered systems that are subjected to the dissipative losses and energy pumping. We show that the Anderson modes of the disordered Ginsburg-Landau lattice possess specific excitation thresholds with respect to the pumping strength. When pumping is increased above the threshold for the band-edge modes, the lattice dynamics yields an attractor in the form of a stable multi-peak pattern. The Anderson attractor is the result of a joint action by the pumping-induced mode excitation, nonlinearity-induced mode interactions, and dissipative stabilization. The regimes of Anderson attractors can be potentially realized with polariton condensates lattices, active waveguide or cavity-QED arrays.
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- Tetyana V Laptyeva
- Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Theory of Control and Dynamical Systems Department, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia
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- Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Theory of Oscillations Department, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia
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- Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Theory of Oscillations Department, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia
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- Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Department of Applied Mathematics, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia
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Zhang WL, Wu XM, Wang F, Ma R, Li XF, Rao YJ. Stark effect induced microcavity polariton solitons. OPTICS EXPRESS 2015; 23:15762-15767. [PMID: 26193554 DOI: 10.1364/oe.23.015762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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This paper proposes a way of generating polariton solitons (PSs) in a semiconductor microcavity using Stark effect as the trigger mechanism. A Stark pulse performing as the writing beam is used to excite non-resonant fluctuations of polariton, which finally evolves into bright PSs. It is found that a branch of PS solutions versus pump parameters could be found through optimizing parameters of the Stark pulse, and polarization of the generated PS is dependent on the writing beam.
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Rayanov K, Altshuler BL, Rubo YG, Flach S. Frequency combs with weakly lasing exciton-polariton condensates. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2015; 114:193901. [PMID: 26024173 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.114.193901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We predict the spontaneous modulated emission from a pair of exciton-polariton condensates due to coherent (Josephson) and dissipative coupling. We show that strong polariton-polariton interaction generates complex dynamics in the weak-lasing domain way beyond Hopf bifurcations. As a result, the exciton-polariton condensates exhibit self-induced oscillations and emit an equidistant frequency comb light spectrum. A plethora of possible emission spectra with asymmetric peak distributions appears due to spontaneously broken time-reversal symmetry. The lasing dynamics is affected by the shot noise arising from the influx of polaritons. That results in a complex inhomogeneous line broadening.
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- K Rayanov
- New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, Centre for Theoretical Chemistry and Physics, Massey University, 0745 Auckland, New Zealand
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- New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, Centre for Theoretical Chemistry and Physics, Massey University, 0745 Auckland, New Zealand
- Physics Department, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
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- Instituto de Energías Renovables, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Temixco, Morelos 62580, Mexico
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- New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, Centre for Theoretical Chemistry and Physics, Massey University, 0745 Auckland, New Zealand
- Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems, Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon 305-811, Korea
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Boulier T, Terças H, Solnyshkov DD, Glorieux Q, Giacobino E, Malpuech G, Bramati A. Vortex chain in a resonantly pumped polariton superfluid. Sci Rep 2015; 5:9230. [PMID: 25784592 PMCID: PMC4363862 DOI: 10.1038/srep09230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2014] [Accepted: 02/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Exciton-polaritons are light-matter mixed states interacting via their exciton fraction. They can be excited, manipulated, and detected using all the versatile techniques of modern optics. An exciton-polariton gas is therefore a unique platform to study out-of-equilibrium interacting quantum fluids. In this work, we report the formation of a ring-shaped array of same sign vortices after injection of angular momentum in a polariton superfluid. The angular momentum is injected by a ℓ = 8 Laguerre-Gauss beam. In the linear regime, a spiral interference pattern containing phase defects is visible. In the nonlinear (superfluid) regime, the interference disappears and eight vortices appear, minimizing the energy while conserving the quantized angular momentum. The radial position of the vortices evolves in the region between the two pumps as a function of the density. Hydrodynamic instabilities resulting in the spontaneous nucleation of vortex-antivortex pairs when the system size is sufficiently large confirm that the vortices are not constrained by interference when nonlinearities dominate the system.
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- T. Boulier
- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, UPMC-Sorbonne Universités, CNRS, ENS-PSL Research University, Collège de France, 4, place Jussieu Case 74, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Institut Pascal, PHOTON-N2, Université Clermont Auvergne, Blaise Pascal University, CNRS, 24 Avenue des Landais, 63177 Aubière Cedex, France
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- Institut Pascal, PHOTON-N2, Université Clermont Auvergne, Blaise Pascal University, CNRS, 24 Avenue des Landais, 63177 Aubière Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, UPMC-Sorbonne Universités, CNRS, ENS-PSL Research University, Collège de France, 4, place Jussieu Case 74, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, UPMC-Sorbonne Universités, CNRS, ENS-PSL Research University, Collège de France, 4, place Jussieu Case 74, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Institut Pascal, PHOTON-N2, Université Clermont Auvergne, Blaise Pascal University, CNRS, 24 Avenue des Landais, 63177 Aubière Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, UPMC-Sorbonne Universités, CNRS, ENS-PSL Research University, Collège de France, 4, place Jussieu Case 74, F-75005 Paris, France
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