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Wang R, Wang Y, Dong J, Wang L, Wang J, Zhang Y, Chen H, Zhang Y, Zhang Y, Wang Y, Zhu H. The Intermode Polariton Parametric Scattering Laser in a Strong Coupled Microcavity Via Two-Photon Absorption. NANO LETTERS 2024; 24:8988-8995. [PMID: 38985015 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c01947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/11/2024]
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Exciton-polaritons, hybrid quasiparticles from the strong coupling of excitons and cavity photons in semiconductor microcavities, offer a platform for exploring quantum coherence and nonlinear optical properties. The unique polariton parametric scattering (PPS) laser is of interest for its potential in quantum technologies and nonlinear devices. However, direct resonant excitation of polaritons in strong-coupling microcavities is challenging. This study proposes an innovative two-photon absorption (TPA) pump mechanism to address this. We observe TPA-driven PPS lasing in a strongly coupled microcavity at room temperature. High K-value exciton injections promote coherent stimulated emission of polariton scattering through intermode channels. Angle-resolved spectra confirm a TPA process, showing evolution from pump-state to signal-state. Hanbury Brown-Twiss measurement of second-order correlation g2(τ) of signal state indicates a phase transition from a classical thermal state to a quantum coherent state. Theoretical modeling provides insights into the physical mechanisms of PPS. Our work advances nonlinear phenomena exploration in strongly coupled light-matter systems, contributing to quantum polaritonics and nonlinear optics.
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- Runchen Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- Research and Development Center for Solid-state Lighting, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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Chang WJ, Zeng H, Terry Weatherly CK, Provazza J, Liu P, Weiss EA, Stern NP, Tempelaar R. Dark State Concentration Dependent Emission and Dynamics of CdSe Nanoplatelet Exciton-Polaritons. ACS NANO 2024. [PMID: 39042269 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c03545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/24/2024]
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The recent surge of interest in polaritons has prompted fundamental questions about the role of dark states in strong light-matter coupling phenomena. Here, we systematically vary the relative number of dark states by controlling the number of stacked CdSe nanoplatelets confined in a Fabry-Pérot cavity. We find the emission spectrum to change significantly with an increasing number of nanoplatelets, with a gradual shift of the dominant emission intensity from the lower polariton branch to a manifold of dark states. Through accompanying calculations based on a kinetic model, this shift is rationalized by an entropic trapping of excitations by the dark state manifold, while a weak dark state dispersion due to local disorder explains their nonzero emission. Our results point toward the relevance of the dark state concentration to the optical and dynamical properties of cavity-embedded quantum emitters with ramifications for Bose-Einstein condensate formation, polariton lasing, polariton-based quantum transduction schemes, and polariton chemistry.
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- Woo Je Chang
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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Zheng H, Wang R, Gong X, Dong J, Wang L, Wang J, Zhang Y, Shen Y, Chen H, Zhang B, Zhu H. Quantized Microcavity Polariton Lasing Based on InGaN Localized Excitons. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 14:1197. [PMID: 39057874 PMCID: PMC11279400 DOI: 10.3390/nano14141197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2024] [Revised: 07/05/2024] [Accepted: 07/09/2024] [Indexed: 07/28/2024]
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Exciton-polaritons, which are bosonic quasiparticles with an extremely low mass, play a key role in understanding macroscopic quantum effects related to Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in solid-state systems. The study of trapped polaritons in a potential well provides an ideal platform for manipulating polariton condensates, enabling polariton lasing with specific formation in k-space. Here, we realize quantized microcavity polariton lasing in simple harmonic oscillator (SHO) states based on spatial localized excitons in InGaN/GaN quantum wells (QWs). Benefiting from the high exciton binding energy (90 meV) and large oscillator strength of the localized exciton, room-temperature (RT) polaritons with large Rabi splitting (61 meV) are obtained in a strongly coupled microcavity. The manipulation of polariton condensates is performed through a parabolic potential well created by optical pump control. Under the confinement situation, trapped polaritons are controlled to be distributed in the selected quantized energy sublevels of the SHO state. The maximum energy spacing of 11.3 meV is observed in the SHO sublevels, indicating the robust polariton trapping of the parabolic potential well. Coherent quantized polariton lasing is achieved in the ground state of the SHO state and the coherence property of the lasing is analyzed through the measurements of spatial interference patterns and g(2)(τ). Our results offer a feasible route to explore the manipulation of macroscopic quantum coherent states and to fabricate novel polariton devices towards room-temperature operations.
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- Huying Zheng
- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China; (H.Z.); (R.W.); (X.G.); (J.D.); (L.W.); (J.W.); (Y.Z.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China; (H.Z.); (R.W.); (X.G.); (J.D.); (L.W.); (J.W.); (Y.Z.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China; (H.Z.); (R.W.); (X.G.); (J.D.); (L.W.); (J.W.); (Y.Z.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China; (H.Z.); (R.W.); (X.G.); (J.D.); (L.W.); (J.W.); (Y.Z.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China; (H.Z.); (R.W.); (X.G.); (J.D.); (L.W.); (J.W.); (Y.Z.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China; (H.Z.); (R.W.); (X.G.); (J.D.); (L.W.); (J.W.); (Y.Z.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China; (H.Z.); (R.W.); (X.G.); (J.D.); (L.W.); (J.W.); (Y.Z.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China;
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China;
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China;
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China; (H.Z.); (R.W.); (X.G.); (J.D.); (L.W.); (J.W.); (Y.Z.)
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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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Betzold S, Düreth J, Dusel M, Emmerling M, Bieganowska A, Ohmer J, Fischer U, Höfling S, Klembt S. Dirac Cones and Room Temperature Polariton Lasing Evidenced in an Organic Honeycomb Lattice. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2024; 11:e2400672. [PMID: 38605674 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202400672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2024] [Revised: 03/24/2024] [Indexed: 04/13/2024]
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Artificial 1D and 2D lattices have emerged as a powerful platform for the emulation of lattice Hamiltonians, the fundamental study of collective many-body effects, and phenomena arising from non-trivial topology. Exciton-polaritons, bosonic part-light and part-matter quasiparticles, combine pronounced nonlinearities with the possibility of on-chip implementation. In this context, organic semiconductors embedded in microcavities have proven to be versatile candidates to study nonlinear many-body physics and bosonic condensation, and in contrast to most inorganic systems, they allow the use at ambient conditions since they host ultra-stable Frenkel excitons. A well-controlled, high-quality optical lattice is implemented that accommodates light-matter quasiparticles. The realized polariton graphene presents with excellent cavity quality factors, showing distinct signatures of Dirac cone and flatband dispersions as well as polariton lasing at room temperature. This is realized by filling coupled dielectric microcavities with the fluorescent protein mCherry. The emergence of a coherent polariton condensate at ambient conditions are demonstrated, taking advantage of coupling conditions as precise and controllable as in state-of-the-art inorganic semiconductor-based systems, without the limitations of e.g. lattice matching in epitaxial growth. This progress allows straightforward extension to more complex systems, such as the study of topological phenomena in 2D lattices including topological lasers and non-Hermitian optics.
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- Simon Betzold
- Lehrstuhl für Technische Physik, Physikalisches Institut and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Technische Physik, Physikalisches Institut and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Technische Physik, Physikalisches Institut and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Technische Physik, Physikalisches Institut and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wyb. Wyspiańskiego 27, Wroclaw, 50-370, Poland
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- Department of Biochemistry, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Technische Physik, Physikalisches Institut and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Technische Physik, Physikalisches Institut and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg, Germany
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Alnatah H, Yao Q, Beaumariage J, Mukherjee S, Tam MC, Wasilewski Z, West K, Baldwin K, Pfeiffer LN, Snoke DW. Coherence measurements of polaritons in thermal equilibrium reveal a power law for two-dimensional condensates. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2024; 10:eadk6960. [PMID: 38701210 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adk6960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2023] [Accepted: 02/16/2024] [Indexed: 05/05/2024]
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We have created a spatially homogeneous polariton condensate in thermal equilibrium, up to very high condensate fraction. Under these conditions, we have measured the coherence as a function of momentum and determined the total coherent fraction of this boson system from very low density up to density well above the condensation transition. These measurements reveal a consistent power law for the coherent fraction as a function of the total density over nearly three orders of its magnitude. The same power law is seen in numerical simulations solving the two-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation for the equilibrium coherence.
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- Hassan Alnatah
- Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh, 3941 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15218, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh, 3941 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15218, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh, 3941 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15218, USA
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- Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland and National Institute of Standards and Technology, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
- Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
- Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh, 3941 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15218, USA
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Alnatah H, Comaron P, Mukherjee S, Beaumariage J, Pfeiffer LN, West K, Baldwin K, Szymańska M, Snoke DW. Critical fluctuations in a confined driven-dissipative quantum condensate. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2024; 10:eadi6762. [PMID: 38517958 PMCID: PMC10959404 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adi6762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2023] [Accepted: 02/16/2024] [Indexed: 03/24/2024]
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Phase fluctuations determine the low-energy properties of quantum condensates. However, at the condensation threshold, both density and phase fluctuations are relevant. While strong emphasis has been given to the investigation of phase fluctuations, which dominate the physics of the quantum system away from the critical point, number fluctuations have been much less explored even in thermal equilibrium. In this work, we report experimental observation and theoretical description of fluctuations in a circularly confined nonequilibrium Bose-Einstein condensate of polaritons near the condensation threshold. We observe critical fluctuations, which combine the number fluctuations of a single-mode condensate state and competition between different states. The latter is analogous to mode hopping in photon lasers. Our theoretical analysis indicates that this phenomenon is of a quantum character, while classical noise of the pump is not sufficient to explain the experiments. The manifestation of a critical quantum state competition unlocks possibilities for the study of condensate formation while linking to practical realizations in photonic lasers.
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- Hassan Alnatah
- Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh, 3941 O’Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15218, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland and National Institute of Standards and Technology, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh, 3941 O’Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15218, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh, 3941 O’Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15218, USA
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de Oliveira R, Colombano M, Malabat F, Morassi M, Lemaître A, Favero I. Whispering-Gallery Quantum-Well Exciton Polaritons in an Indium Gallium Arsenide Microdisk Cavity. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2024; 132:126901. [PMID: 38579217 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.126901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2023] [Accepted: 01/23/2024] [Indexed: 04/07/2024]
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Despite appealing high-symmetry properties that enable strong spatial confinement and ultrahigh-Q, optical whispering-gallery modes of spherical and circular resonators have been absent from the field of quantum-well exciton polaritons. Here we observe whispering-gallery exciton polaritons in a gallium arsenide microdisk cavity filled with indium gallium arsenide quantum wells, the test bed materials of polaritonics. Strong coupling is evidenced in photoluminescence and resonant spectroscopy accessed through concomitant confocal microscopy and near-field optical techniques. Excitonic and optical resonances are tuned by varying temperature and disk radius, revealing Rabi splittings between 5 and 10 meV. A dedicated analytical quantum model for such circular whispering-gallery polaritons is developed, which reproduces the measured values. At high power, lasing is observed and accompanied by a blueshift of the emission consistent with the regime of polariton lasing. With experimental methods and theory now established, whispering-gallery-mode polaritons in round dielectric resonators appear as a new viable platform toward low loss polaritonics.
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- Romain de Oliveira
- 1Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 7162, 10 rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet 75013 Paris, France
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- 1Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 7162, 10 rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet 75013 Paris, France
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- 1Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 7162, 10 rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet 75013 Paris, France
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- 2Centre de Nanosciences et Nanotechnologies, CNRS UMR 9001, Université Paris-Saclay, 91120 Palaiseau, France
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- 2Centre de Nanosciences et Nanotechnologies, CNRS UMR 9001, Université Paris-Saclay, 91120 Palaiseau, France
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- 1Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 7162, 10 rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet 75013 Paris, France
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Mao D, Chen L, Sun Z, Zhang M, Shi ZY, Hu Y, Zhang L, Wu J, Dong H, Xie W, Xu H. Observation of transition from superfluorescence to polariton condensation in CsPbBr 3 quantum dots film. LIGHT, SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS 2024; 13:34. [PMID: 38291038 PMCID: PMC10828401 DOI: 10.1038/s41377-024-01378-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2023] [Revised: 12/19/2023] [Accepted: 01/03/2024] [Indexed: 02/01/2024]
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The superfluorescence effect has received extensive attention due to the many-body physics of quantum correlation in dipole gas and the optical applications of ultrafast bright radiation field based on the cooperative quantum state. Here, we demonstrate not only to observe the superfluorescence effect but also to control the cooperative state of the excitons ensemble by externally applying a regulatory dimension of coupling light fields. A new quasi-particle called cooperative exciton-polariton is revealed in a light-matter hybrid structure of a perovskite quantum dot thin film spin-coated on a Distributed Bragg Reflector. Above the nonlinear threshold, polaritonic condensation occurs at a nonzero momentum state on the lower polariton branch owning to the vital role of the synchronized excitons. The phase transition from superfluorescence to polariton condensation exhibits typical signatures of a decrease of the linewidth, an increase of the macroscopic coherence as well as an accelerated radiation decay rate. These findings are promising for opening new potential applications for super-brightness and unconventional coherent light sources and could enable the exploitation of cooperative effects for quantum optics.
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- Danqun Mao
- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China
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- Key Laboratory of Materials for High-Power Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 201800, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China
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- Key Laboratory of Materials for High-Power Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 201800, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, 030006, China
- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Precision Optics, Chongqing Institute of East China Normal University, Chongqing, 401121, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai, 201800, China
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- Key Laboratory of Materials for High-Power Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 201800, Shanghai, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China
- School of Physics and Technology, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China
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Kang H, Ma J, Li J, Zhang X, Liu X. Exciton Polaritons in Emergent Two-Dimensional Semiconductors. ACS NANO 2023; 17:24449-24467. [PMID: 38051774 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c07993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/07/2023]
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The "marriage" of light (i.e., photon) and matter (i.e., exciton) in semiconductors leads to the formation of hybrid quasiparticles called exciton polaritons with fascinating quantum phenomena such as Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) and photon blockade. The research of exciton polaritons has been evolving into an era with emergent two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors and photonic structures for their tremendous potential to break the current limitations of quantum fundamental study and photonic applications. In this Perspective, the basic concepts of 2D excitons, optical resonators, and the strong coupling regime are introduced. The research progress of exciton polaritons is reviewed, and important discoveries (especially the recent ones of 2D exciton polaritons) are highlighted. Subsequently, the emergent 2D exciton polaritons are discussed in detail, ranging from the realization of the strong coupling regime in various photonic systems to the discoveries of attractive phenomena with interesting physics and extensive applications. Moreover, emerging 2D semiconductors, such as 2D perovskites (2DPK) and 2D antiferromagnetic (AFM) semiconductors, are surveyed for the manipulation of exciton polaritons with distinct control degrees of freedom (DOFs). Finally, the outlook on the 2D exciton polaritons and their nonlinear interactions is presented with our initial numerical simulations. This Perspective not only aims to provide an in-depth overview of the latest fundamental findings in 2D exciton polaritons but also attempts to serve as a valuable resource to prospect explorations of quantum optics and topological photonic applications.
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- Haifeng Kang
- Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro/Nano Structure of Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, P. R. China
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- Faculty of Science and Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro/Nano Structure of Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, P. R. China
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- Faculty of Science and Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, P. R. China
- Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro/Nano Structure of Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, P. R. China
- Wuhan Institute of Quantum Technology, Wuhan, 430206, P. R. China
- Wuhan University Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, 518057, P. R. China
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Caleffi F, Capone M, Carusotto I. Collective Excitations of a Strongly Correlated Nonequilibrium Photon Fluid across the Insulator-Superfluid Phase Transition. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 131:193604. [PMID: 38000432 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.193604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2022] [Revised: 07/15/2023] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 11/26/2023]
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We develop a Gutzwiller theory for the nonequilibrium steady states of a strongly interacting photon fluid driven by a non-Markovian incoherent pump. In particular, we explore the collective modes of the system across the out-of-equilibrium insulator-superfluid transition of the system, characterizing the diffusive Goldstone mode in the superfluid phase and the excitation of particles and holes in the insulating one. Observable features in the pump-and-probe optical response of the system are highlighted. Our predictions are experimentally accessible to state-of-the-art circuit-QED devices and open the way for the study of novel driven-dissipative many-body scenarios with no counterparts at equilibrium.
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- Fabio Caleffi
- International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Via Bonomea 265, I-34136 Trieste, Italy
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- International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Via Bonomea 265, I-34136 Trieste, Italy
- CNR-IOM Democritos, Via Bonomea 265, I-34136 Trieste, Italy
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- INO-CNR BEC Center and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento, Via Sommarive 14, I-38123 Povo, Italy
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Cheng Z. Accurate Thermodynamic Properties of Ideal Bosons in a Highly Anisotropic 2D Harmonic Potential. ENTROPY (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 25:1513. [PMID: 37998205 PMCID: PMC10670444 DOI: 10.3390/e25111513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2023] [Revised: 08/01/2023] [Accepted: 08/15/2023] [Indexed: 11/25/2023]
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One can derive an analytic result for the issue of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in anisotropic 2D harmonic traps. We find that the number of uncondensed bosons is represented by an analytic function, which includes a series expansion of q-digamma functions in mathematics. One can utilize this analytic result to evaluate various thermodynamic functions of ideal bosons in 2D anisotropic harmonic traps. The first major discovery is that the internal energy of a finite number of ideal bosons is a monotonically increasing function of anisotropy parameter p. The second major discovery is that, when p≥0.5, the changing with temperature of the heat capacity of a finite number of ideal bosons possesses the maximum value, which happens at critical temperature Tc. The third major discovery is that, when 0.1≤p<0.5, the changing with temperature of the heat capacity of a finite number of ideal bosons possesses an inflection point, but when p<0.1, the inflection point disappears. The fourth major discovery is that, in the thermodynamic limit, at Tc and when p≥0.5, the heat capacity at constant number reveals a cusp singularity, which resembles the λ-transition of liquid helium-4. The fifth major discovery is that, in comparison to 2D isotropic harmonic traps (p=1), the singular peak of the specific heat becomes very gentle when p is lowered.
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- Ze Cheng
- School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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Bera S, Yip KLS, John S. Fragility of the Schrödinger Cat in thermal environments. Sci Rep 2023; 13:18691. [PMID: 37907662 PMCID: PMC10618529 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-45701-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2023] [Accepted: 10/23/2023] [Indexed: 11/02/2023] Open
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We describe the decoherence instability of Schrödinger Cat states in the two-site Bose-Hubbard model with an attractive on-site interaction between particles. For N particles with onsite attractive energy U and hopping amplitude between sites t, Cat states exist for [Formula: see text] at zero temperature. However, they are increasingly unstable to small thermal fluctuations as the Cat itself is increasingly well-defined and its components become well-separated. For any given [Formula: see text], the decoherence temperature becomes smaller for large N. The loss of off-diagonal coherence peaks in the equilibrium density matrix is dominated by the thermal admixture of the first excited state of the many-body system with its ground state. Particle number fluctuations, described in the grand canonical ensemble also reduce coherence, but to a lesser degree than thermal fluctuations. The full density matrix of the Schrödinger Cat is obtained by exact numerical diagonalization of the many-body Hamiltonian and a narrow regime in the parameter space of the particle number, temperature, and U/t is identified where small Cat states may survive decoherence in a physical environment.
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- Sandip Bera
- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A7, Canada.
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Chen X, Alnatah H, Mao D, Xu M, Fan Y, Wan Q, Beaumariage J, Xie W, Xu H, Shi ZY, Snoke D, Sun Z, Wu J. Bose Condensation of Upper-Branch Exciton-Polaritons in a Transferable Microcavity. NANO LETTERS 2023; 23:9538-9546. [PMID: 37818838 PMCID: PMC10603810 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c03123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2023] [Revised: 10/05/2023] [Indexed: 10/13/2023]
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Exciton-polaritons are composite quasiparticles that result from the coupling of excitonic transitions and optical modes. They have been extensively studied because of their quantum phenomena and potential applications in unconventional coherent light sources and all-optical control elements. In this work, we report the observation of Bose-Einstein condensation of the upper polariton branch in a transferable WS2 monolayer microcavity. Near the condensation threshold, we observe a nonlinear increase in upper polariton intensity accompanied by a decrease in line width and an increase in temporal coherence, all of which are hallmarks of Bose-Einstein condensation. Simulations show that this condensation occurs within a specific particle density range, depending on the excitonic properties and pumping conditions. The manifestation of upper polariton condensation unlocks new possibilities for studying the condensate competition while linking it to practical realizations in polaritonic lasers. Our findings contribute to the understanding of bosonic systems and offer potential for the development of polaritonic devices.
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- Xingzhou Chen
- State
Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, University of
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- State
Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State
Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State
Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, University of
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, University of
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- State
Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State
Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State
Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, University of
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- State
Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
- Collaborative
Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi
University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
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- State
Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
- Collaborative
Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi
University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
- Chongqing
Key Laboratory of Precision Optics, Chongqing
Institute of East China Normal University, Chongqing 401121, China
- CAS
Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai 201800, China
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Zhai X, Ma X, Gao Y, Xing C, Gao M, Dai H, Wang X, Pan A, Schumacher S, Gao T. Electrically Controlling Vortices in a Neutral Exciton-Polariton Condensate at Room Temperature. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 131:136901. [PMID: 37831991 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.136901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2022] [Revised: 06/26/2023] [Accepted: 08/31/2023] [Indexed: 10/15/2023]
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Manipulating bosonic condensates with electric fields is very challenging as the electric fields do not directly interact with the neutral particles of the condensate. Here we demonstrate a simple electric method to tune the vorticity of exciton-polariton condensates in a strong coupling liquid crystal (LC) microcavity with CsPbBr_{3} microplates as active material at room temperature. In such a microcavity, the LC molecular director can be electrically modulated giving control over the polariton condensation in different modes. For isotropic nonresonant optical pumping we demonstrate the spontaneous formation of vortices with topological charges of +1, +2, -2, and -1. The topological vortex charge is controlled by a voltage in the range of 1 to 10 V applied to the microcavity sample. This control is achieved by the interplay of a built-in potential gradient, the anisotropy of the optically active perovskite microplates, and the electrically controllable LC molecular director in our system with intentionally broken rotational symmetry. Besides the fundamental interest in the achieved electric polariton vortex control at room temperature, our work paves the way to micron-sized emitters with electric control over the emitted light's phase profile and quantized orbital angular momentum for information processing and integration into photonic circuits.
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- Xiaokun Zhai
- Department of Physics, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
- Institute of Molecular Plus, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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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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- Department of Physics, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
- Institute of Molecular Plus, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Materials Physics and Preparing Technology, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Materials Physics and Preparing Technology, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Materials Physics and Preparing Technology, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
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- Department of Physics and Center for Optoelectronics and Photonics Paderborn (CeOPP), Universität Paderborn, Warburger Strasse 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany
- Wyant College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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- Department of Physics, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
- Institute of Molecular Plus, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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Chen Y, Shi Y, Gan Y, Liu H, Li T, Ghosh S, Xiong Q. Unraveling the Ultrafast Coherent Dynamics of Exciton Polariton Propagation at Room Temperature. NANO LETTERS 2023; 23:8704-8711. [PMID: 37681647 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/09/2023]
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Exciton polaritons are widely considered as promising platforms for developing room-temperature polaritonic devices, owing to the high-speed propagation and nonlinear interactions. However, it remains challenging to explore the dynamics of exciton polaritons specifically at room temperature, where the lifetime could be as small as a few picoseconds and the prevailing time-averaged measurement cannot give access to the true nature of it. Herein, by using the time-resolved photoluminescence, we have successfully traced the ultrafast coherent dynamics of a moving exciton polariton condensate in a one-dimensional perovskite microcavity. The propagation speed is directly measured to be ∼12.2 ± 0.8 μm/ps. Moreover, we have developed a time-resolved Michelson interferometry to quantify the time-dependent phase coherence, which reveals that the actual coherence time of exciton polaritons could be much longer (nearly 100%) than what was believed before. Our work sheds new light on the ultrafast coherent propagation of exciton polaritons at room temperature.
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- Yuzhong Chen
- Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing 100193, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing 100193, People's Republic of China
- State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics and Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing 100193, People's Republic of China
- State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics and Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing 100193, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing 100193, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing 100193, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing 100193, People's Republic of China
- State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics and Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China
- Frontier Science Center for Quantum Information, Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China
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The coherent exchange of energy between materials and optical fields leads to strong light-matter interactions and so-called polaritonic states with intriguing properties, halfway between light and matter. Two decades ago, research on these strong light-matter interactions, using optical cavity (vacuum) fields, remained for the most part the province of the physicist, with a focus on inorganic materials requiring cryogenic temperatures and carefully fabricated, high-quality optical cavities for their study. This review explores the history and recent acceleration of interest in the application of polaritonic states to molecular properties and processes. The enormous collective oscillator strength of dense films of organic molecules, aggregates, and materials allows cavity vacuum field strong coupling to be achieved at room temperature, even in rapidly fabricated, highly lossy metallic optical cavities. This has put polaritonic states and their associated coherent phenomena at the fingertips of laboratory chemists, materials scientists, and even biochemists as a potentially new tool to control molecular chemistry. The exciting phenomena that have emerged suggest that polaritonic states are of genuine relevance within the molecular and material energy landscape.
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- Kenji Hirai
- Division of Photonics and Optical Science, Research Institute for Electronic Science (RIES), Hokkaido University, North 20 West 10, Kita ward, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0020, Japan
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- School of Chemistry and ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science, The University of Melbourne, Masson Road, Parkville, Victoria 3052 Australia
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- Division of Photonics and Optical Science, Research Institute for Electronic Science (RIES), Hokkaido University, North 20 West 10, Kita ward, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0020, Japan
- Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, 3001 Heverlee Leuven Belgium
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Grudinina A, Efthymiou-Tsironi M, Ardizzone V, Riminucci F, Giorgi MD, Trypogeorgos D, Baldwin K, Pfeiffer L, Ballarini D, Sanvitto D, Voronova N. Collective excitations of a bound-in-the-continuum condensate. Nat Commun 2023; 14:3464. [PMID: 37308474 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38939-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2022] [Accepted: 05/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/14/2023] Open
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Spectra of low-lying elementary excitations are critical to characterize properties of bosonic quantum fluids. Usually these spectra are difficult to observe, due to low occupation of non-condensate states compared to the ground state. Recently, low-threshold Bose-Einstein condensation was realised in a symmetry-protected bound state in the continuum, at a saddle point, thanks to coupling of this electromagnetic resonance to semiconductor excitons. While it has opened the door to long-living polariton condensates, their intrinsic collective properties are still unexplored. Here we unveil the peculiar features of the Bogoliubov spectrum of excitations in this system. Thanks to the dark nature of the bound-in-the-continuum state, collective excitations lying directly above the condensate become observable in enhanced detail. We reveal interesting aspects, such as energy-flat parts of the dispersion characterized by two parallel stripes in photoluminescence pattern, pronounced linearization at non-zero momenta in one of the directions, and a strongly anisotropic velocity of sound.
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- Anna Grudinina
- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), 115409, Moscow, Russia
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- Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "Ennio De Giorgi", Università del Salento, Strada Provinciale Lecce-Monteroni, Campus Ecotekne, Lecce, 73100, Italy
- CNR Nanotec, Institute of Nanotechnology, via Monteroni, 73100, Lecce, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "Ennio De Giorgi", Università del Salento, Strada Provinciale Lecce-Monteroni, Campus Ecotekne, Lecce, 73100, Italy
- CNR Nanotec, Institute of Nanotechnology, via Monteroni, 73100, Lecce, Italy
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- Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- CNR Nanotec, Institute of Nanotechnology, via Monteroni, 73100, Lecce, Italy
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- PRISM, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08540, USA
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- PRISM, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08540, USA
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- CNR Nanotec, Institute of Nanotechnology, via Monteroni, 73100, Lecce, Italy
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- CNR Nanotec, Institute of Nanotechnology, via Monteroni, 73100, Lecce, Italy.
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- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), 115409, Moscow, Russia.
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Exciton polariton interactions in Van der Waals superlattices at room temperature. Nat Commun 2023; 14:1512. [PMID: 36932078 PMCID: PMC10023709 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36912-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2022] [Accepted: 02/23/2023] [Indexed: 03/19/2023] Open
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Monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) materials have attracted a great attention because of their unique properties and promising applications in integrated optoelectronic devices. Being layered materials, they can be stacked vertically to fabricate artificial van der Waals lattices, which offer unique opportunities to tailor the electronic and optical properties. The integration of TMD heterostructures in planar microcavities working in strong coupling regime is particularly important to control the light-matter interactions and form robust polaritons, highly sought for room temperature applications. Here, we demonstrate the systematic control of the coupling-strength by embedding multiple WS2 monolayers in a planar microcavity. The vacuum Rabi splitting is enhanced from 36 meV for one monolayer up to 72 meV for the four-monolayer microcavity. In addition, carrying out time-resolved pump-probe experiments at room temperature we demonstrate the nature of polariton interactions which are dominated by phase space filling effects. Furthermore, we also observe the presence of long-living dark excitations in the multiple monolayer superlattices. Our results pave the way for the realization of polaritonic devices based on planar microcavities embedding multiple monolayers and could potentially lead the way for future devices towards the exploitation of interaction-driven phenomena at room temperature.
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Cilibrizzi P, Liu X, Zhang P, Wang C, Li Q, Yang S, Zhang X. Self-Induced Valley Bosonic Stimulation of Exciton Polaritons in a Monolayer Semiconductor. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 130:036902. [PMID: 36763375 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.036902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2021] [Accepted: 11/18/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The newly discovered valley degree of freedom in atomically thin two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides offers a promising platform to explore rich nonlinear physics, such as spinor Bose-Einstein condensate and novel valleytronics applications. However, the critical nonlinear effect, such as valley polariton bosonic stimulation, has long remained an unresolved challenge due to the generation of limited polariton ground state densities necessary to induce the stimulated scattering of polaritons in specific valleys. Here, we report the self-induced valley bosonic stimulation of exciton polaritons via spin-valley locking in a WS_{2} monolayer microcavity. This is achieved by the resonant injection of valley polaritons at specific energy and wave vector, which allows spin-polarized polaritons to efficiently populate their ground state and induce a valley-dependent bosonic stimulation. As a result, we observe the nonlinear self-amplification of polariton emission from the valley-dependent ground state. Our finding paves the way for the investigation of spin ordering and phase transitions in transition metal dichalcogenides polariton Bose-Einstein condensate, offering a promising route for the realization of polariton spin lattices in moiré polariton systems and spin lasers.
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- Pasquale Cilibrizzi
- NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Zhang Z, Song F, Li Z, Gao YF, Sun YJ, Lou WK, Liu X, Zhang Q, Tan PH, Chang K, Zhang J. Double-Cavity Modulation of Exciton Polaritons in CsPbBr 3 Microwire. NANO LETTERS 2022; 22:9365-9371. [PMID: 36399405 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c03147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The lead halide perovskite has become a promising candidate for the study of exciton polaritons due to their excellent optical properties. Here, both experimental and simulated results confirm the existence of two kinds of Fabry-Pérot microcavities in a single CsPbBr3 microwire with an isosceles right triangle cross section, and we experimentally demonstrate that confined photons in a straight and a folded Fabry-Pérot microcavity are strongly coupled with excitons to form exciton polaritons. Furthermore, we reveal the polarization characteristic and double-cavity modulation of exciton polaritons emission by polarization-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. Our results not only prove that the modulation of exciton polaritons emission can occur in this simple double-cavity system but also provide a possibility to develop related polariton devices.
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- Zhe Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
- Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Science, Beijing 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Science, Beijing 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, CAS Center For Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Shishkov VY, Andrianov ES. Negative compressibility of a nonequilibrium nonideal Bose-Einstein condensate. Phys Rev E 2022; 106:064108. [PMID: 36671074 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.106.064108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2022] [Accepted: 11/18/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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An ideal equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is usually considered in the grand canonical (μVT) ensemble, which implies the presence of the chemical equilibrium with the environment. However, in most experimental scenarios, the total amount of particles in BEC is determined either by the initial conditions or by the balance between dissipation and pumping. As a result, BEC may possess the thermal equilibrium but almost never the chemical equilibrium. In addition, many experimentally achievable BECs are non-ideal due to interaction between particles. In the recent work [Shiskov et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 065301 (2022)0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.128.065301], it has been shown that invariant subspaces in the system Hilbert space appear in non-equilibrium BEC in the fast thermalization limit. In each of these subspaces, Gibbs distribution is established with a certain number of particles that makes it possible to investigate properties of non-ideal non-equilibrium BEC independently in each invariant subspace. In this work, we analyze the BEC stability due to change in dispersion curve caused by non-linearity in BEC. Generally, non-linearity leads to the redshift or blueshift of the dispersion curve and to the change in the effective mass of the particles. We show that the redshift of the dispersion curve can lead to the negative compressibility of BEC and onset of instability, whereas the change in the effective mass always makes BEC more stable. We find the explicit condition for the particle density in BEC, at which the negative compressibility appears. We show that the appearance of BEC instability is followed by the formation of stable and spatially inhomogeneous BEC.
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- Vladislav Yu Shishkov
- Dukhov Research Institute of Automatics (VNIIA), 22 Sushchevskaya, Moscow 127055, Russia; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 9 Institutskiy pereulok, Dolgoprudny 141700, Moscow region, Russia; Center for Photonics and Quantum Materials, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia; and Laboratories for Hybrid Photonics, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
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- Dukhov Research Institute of Automatics (VNIIA), 22 Sushchevskaya, Moscow 127055, Russia; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 9 Institutskiy pereulok, Dolgoprudny 141700, Moscow region, Russia; Center for Photonics and Quantum Materials, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia; and Laboratories for Hybrid Photonics, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
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Wei M, Verstraelen W, Orfanakis K, Ruseckas A, Liew TCH, Samuel IDW, Turnbull GA, Ohadi H. Optically trapped room temperature polariton condensate in an organic semiconductor. Nat Commun 2022; 13:7191. [PMID: 36424397 PMCID: PMC9691723 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34440-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2022] [Accepted: 10/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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The strong nonlinearities of exciton-polariton condensates in lattices make them suitable candidates for neuromorphic computing and physical simulations of complex problems. So far, all room temperature polariton condensate lattices have been achieved by nanoimprinting microcavities, which by nature lacks the crucial tunability required for realistic reconfigurable simulators. Here, we report the observation of a quantised oscillating nonlinear quantum fluid in 1D and 2D potentials in an organic microcavity at room temperature, achieved by an on-the-fly fully tuneable optical approach. Remarkably, the condensate is delocalised from the excitation region by macroscopic distances, leading both to longer coherence and a threshold one order of magnitude lower than that with a conventional Gaussian excitation profile. We observe different mode selection behaviour compared to inorganic materials, which highlights the anomalous scaling of blueshift with pump intensity and the presence of sizeable energy-relaxation mechanisms. Our work is a major step towards a fully tuneable polariton simulator at room temperature.
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- Mengjie Wei
- Organic Semiconductor Centre, School of Physics & Astronomy, SUPA, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9SS, UK
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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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- Organic Semiconductor Centre, School of Physics & Astronomy, SUPA, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9SS, UK
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- Organic Semiconductor Centre, School of Physics & Astronomy, SUPA, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9SS, UK
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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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- Organic Semiconductor Centre, School of Physics & Astronomy, SUPA, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9SS, UK.
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- Organic Semiconductor Centre, School of Physics & Astronomy, SUPA, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9SS, UK.
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- Organic Semiconductor Centre, School of Physics & Astronomy, SUPA, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9SS, UK.
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Sakhel AR, Sakhel RR. Unpredictable condensate-depletion dynamics in one-dimensional power-law traps. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2022; 51:025402. [PMID: 36322981 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ac9f98] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2022] [Accepted: 11/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The dynamic depletion of a trapped one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) that is driven by laser stirring is numerically explored using beyond mean-field methods. For this purpose, the multi-configurational time-dependent Hartree method for bosons (Alonet al2008Phys. Rev.A77033613) is applied. In order to induce the depletion, the BEC is excited by a negative Gaussian potential (dimple) whose depth is modulated with time. The BEC is examined in various trapping geometries, with different interactions, and the condensate depletion is recorded as a function of time. A general power-law trap is considered that can be experimentally generated and shaped by the holographic methods of Bruceet al(2011Phys. Rev.A84053410). The chief goal is to explore the interplay between trapping geometry and interactions in defining the depletion dynamics. It is chiefly found, that the details of these depletion dynamics are unpredictable and determined by a combination of the principle dimple depth, trap, and interactions. One significant feature of this work is that quite a number of plateaus is reached in the aforementioned dynamics.
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- Asaad R Sakhel
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Al-Balqa Applied University, Salt 19117, Jordan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Isra University, Amman 11622, Jordan
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Sigurdsson H, Gnusov I, Alyatkin S, Pickup L, Gippius NA, Lagoudakis PG, Askitopoulos A. Persistent Self-Induced Larmor Precession Evidenced through Periodic Revivals of Coherence. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 129:155301. [PMID: 36269967 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.155301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2020] [Revised: 07/01/2022] [Accepted: 08/22/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Interferometric measurements of an optically trapped exciton-polariton condensate reveal a regime where the condensate pseudo-spin precesses persistently within the driving optical pulse. For a single 20 μs optical pulse, the condensate pseudo-spin undergoes over 10^{5} full precessions with striking frequency stability. The emergence of the precession is traced to polariton nonlinear interactions that give rise to a self-induced out-of-plane magnetic field, which in turn drives the system spin dynamics. The Larmor precession frequency and trajectory are directly influenced by the condensate density, enabling the control of this effect with optical means. Our results accentuate the system's potential for the realization of magnetometry devices and can lead to the emergence of spin-squeezed polariton condensates.
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- H Sigurdsson
- Science Institute, University of Iceland, Dunhagi 3, IS-107 Reykjavik, Iceland
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO171BJ, United Kingdom
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- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, Building 1, 121205 Moscow, Russia
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- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, Building 1, 121205 Moscow, Russia
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO171BJ, United Kingdom
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- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, Building 1, 121205 Moscow, Russia
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO171BJ, United Kingdom
- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, Building 1, 121205 Moscow, Russia
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- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, Building 1, 121205 Moscow, Russia
- QUBITECH, Thessalias 10, Chalandri, 15231 Athens, Greece
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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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Claude F, Jacquet MJ, Usciati R, Carusotto I, Giacobino E, Bramati A, Glorieux Q. High-Resolution Coherent Probe Spectroscopy of a Polariton Quantum Fluid. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 129:103601. [PMID: 36112465 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.103601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2021] [Revised: 04/29/2022] [Accepted: 08/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Characterizing elementary excitations in quantum fluids is essential to study their collective effects. We present an original angle-resolved coherent probe spectroscopy technique to study the dispersion of these excitation modes in a fluid of polaritons under resonant pumping. Thanks to the unprecedented spectral and spatial resolution, we observe directly the low-energy phononic behavior and detect the negative-energy modes, i.e., the ghost branch, of the dispersion relation. In addition, we reveal narrow spectral features precursory of dynamical instabilities due to the intrinsic out-of-equilibrium nature of the system. This technique provides the missing tool for the quantitative study of quantum hydrodynamics in polariton fluids.
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- F Claude
- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Sorbonne Université, ENS-Université PSL, Collège de France, CNRS, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
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- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Sorbonne Université, ENS-Université PSL, Collège de France, CNRS, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
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- INO-CNR BEC Center and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento, via Sommarive 14, I-38123 Trento, Italy
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- INO-CNR BEC Center and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento, via Sommarive 14, I-38123 Trento, Italy
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- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Sorbonne Université, ENS-Université PSL, Collège de France, CNRS, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
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- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Sorbonne Université, ENS-Université PSL, Collège de France, CNRS, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
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- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Sorbonne Université, ENS-Université PSL, Collège de France, CNRS, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Chen F, Li H, Zhou H, Luo S, Sun Z, Ye Z, Sun F, Wang J, Zheng Y, Chen X, Xu H, Xu H, Byrnes T, Chen Z, Wu J. Optically Controlled Femtosecond Polariton Switch at Room Temperature. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 129:057402. [PMID: 35960578 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.057402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2021] [Revised: 04/04/2022] [Accepted: 06/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Exciton polaritons have shown great potential for applications such as low-threshold lasing, quantum simulation, and dissipation-free circuits. In this paper, we realize a room temperature ultrafast polaritonic switch where the Bose-Einstein condensate population can be depleted at the hundred femtosecond timescale with high extinction ratios. This is achieved by applying an ultrashort optical control pulse, inducing parametric scattering within the photon part of the polariton condensate via a four-wave mixing process. Using a femtosecond angle-resolved spectroscopic imaging technique, the erasure and revival of the polariton condensates can be visualized. The condensate depletion and revival are well modeled by an open-dissipative Gross-Pitaevskii equation including parametric scattering process. This pushes the speed frontier of all-optical controlled polaritonic switches at room temperature towards the THz regime.
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- Fei Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Department of Physics, College of Physical Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, 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 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Light Manipulation and Applications, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
- Division of Arts and Sciences, New York University Shanghai, 1555 Century Ave, Pudong New District, Shanghai 200122, China
- NYU-ECNU Institute of Physics at NYU Shanghai, 3663 Zhongshan Road North, Shanghai 200062, China
- Center for Quantum and Topological Systems (CQTS), NYUAD Research Institute, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Department of Physics, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
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- Department of Physics, College of Physical Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
- Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center, Wuhan 430074, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
- NYU-ECNU Institute of Physics at NYU Shanghai, 3663 Zhongshan Road North, 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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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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Manipulating polariton condensates by Rashba-Dresselhaus coupling at room temperature. Nat Commun 2022; 13:3785. [PMID: 35778391 PMCID: PMC9249758 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31529-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Spin-orbit coupling plays an important role in the spin Hall effect and topological insulators. Bose-Einstein condensates with spin-orbit coupling show remarkable quantum phase transition. In this work we control an exciton polariton condensate – a macroscopically coherent state of hybrid light and matter excitations – by virtue of the Rashba-Dresselhaus (RD) spin-orbit coupling. This is achieved in a liquid-crystal filled microcavity where CsPbBr3 perovskite microplates act as the gain material at room temperature. Specifically, we realize an artificial gauge field acting on the CsPbBr3 exciton polariton condensate, splitting the condensate fractions with opposite spins in both momentum and real space. Besides the ground states, higher-order discrete polariton modes can also be split by the RD effect. Our work paves the way to manipulate exciton polariton condensates with a synthetic gauge field based on the RD spin-orbit coupling at room temperature. Engineered spin-orbit coupling can induce novel quantum phases in a Bose-Einstein condensate, however such demonstrations have been limited to cold atom systems. Here the authors realize a exciton-polarion condensate with tunable spin-orbit coupling in a liquid crystal microcavity at room temperature.
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Prediction of Strong Transversal s(TE) Exciton–Polaritons in C60 Thin Crystalline Films. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23136943. [PMID: 35805945 PMCID: PMC9266707 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23136943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2022] [Revised: 06/20/2022] [Accepted: 06/20/2022] [Indexed: 12/10/2022] Open
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If an exciton and a photon can change each other’s properties, indicating that the regime of their strong bond is achieved, it usually happens in standard microcavity devices, where the large overlap between the ’confined’ cavity photons and the 2D excitons enable the hybridization and the band gap opening in the parabolic photonic branch (as clear evidence of the strong exciton–photon coupling). Here, we show that the strong light–matter coupling can occur beyond the microcavity device setup, i.e., between the ’free’ s(TE) photons and excitons. The s(TE) exciton–polariton is a polarization mode, which (contrary to the p(TM) mode) appears only as a coexistence of a photon and an exciton, i.e., it vanishes in the non-retarded limit (c→∞). We show that a thin fullerene C60 crystalline film (consisting of N C60 single layers) deposited on an Al2O3 dielectric surface supports strong evanescent s(TE)-polarized exciton–polariton. The calculated Rabi splitting is more than Ω=500 meV for N=10, with a tendency to increase with N, indicating a very strong photonic character of the exciton–polariton.
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Knorr M, Manceau JM, Mornhinweg J, Nespolo J, Biasiol G, Tran NL, Malerba M, Goulain P, Lafosse X, Jeannin M, Stefinger M, Carusotto I, Lange C, Colombelli R, Huber R. Intersubband Polariton-Polariton Scattering in a Dispersive Microcavity. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 128:247401. [PMID: 35776456 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.247401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2021] [Revised: 03/10/2022] [Accepted: 04/15/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The ultrafast scattering dynamics of intersubband polaritons in dispersive cavities embedding GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells are studied directly within their band structure using a noncollinear pump-probe geometry with phase-stable midinfrared pulses. Selective excitation of the lower polariton at a frequency of ∼25 THz and at a finite in-plane momentum k_{‖} leads to the emergence of a narrowband maximum in the probe reflectivity at k_{‖}=0. A quantum mechanical model identifies the underlying microscopic process as stimulated coherent polariton-polariton scattering. These results mark an important milestone toward quantum control and bosonic lasing in custom-tailored polaritonic systems in the mid and far infrared.
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- M Knorr
- Department of Physics, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
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- Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (C2N), CNRS UMR 9001, Université Paris Saclay, 91120 Palaiseau, France
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- Department of Physics, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
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- INO-CNR BEC Center and Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Trento, I-38123 Povo, Italy
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- Laboratorio TASC, CNR-IOM, Area Science Park, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy
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- Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (C2N), CNRS UMR 9001, Université Paris Saclay, 91120 Palaiseau, France
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- Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (C2N), CNRS UMR 9001, Université Paris Saclay, 91120 Palaiseau, France
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- Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (C2N), CNRS UMR 9001, Université Paris Saclay, 91120 Palaiseau, France
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- Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (C2N), CNRS UMR 9001, Université Paris Saclay, 91120 Palaiseau, France
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- Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (C2N), CNRS UMR 9001, Université Paris Saclay, 91120 Palaiseau, France
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- Department of Physics, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
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- INO-CNR BEC Center and Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Trento, I-38123 Povo, Italy
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- Department of Physics, TU Dortmund University, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (C2N), CNRS UMR 9001, Université Paris Saclay, 91120 Palaiseau, France
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- Department of Physics, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
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Pieczarka M, Biegańska D, Schneider C, Höfling S, Klembt S, Sęk G, Syperek M. Crossover from exciton-polariton condensation to photon lasing in an optical trap. OPTICS EXPRESS 2022; 30:17070-17079. [PMID: 36221537 DOI: 10.1364/oe.452918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2022] [Accepted: 04/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Optical trapping has been proven to be an effective method of separating exciton-polariton condensates from the incoherent high-energy excitonic reservoir located at the pumping laser position. This technique has significantly improved the coherent properties of exciton-polariton condensates, when compared to a quasi-homogeneous spot excitation scheme. Here, we compare two experimental methods on a sample, where a single spot excitation experiment allowed us only to observe photonic lasing in the weak coupling regime. In contrast, the ring-shaped excitation resulted in the two-threshold behavior, where an exciton-polariton condensate manifests itself at the first and photon lasing at the second threshold. Both lasing regimes are trapped in an optical potential created by the pump. We interpret the origin of this confining potential in terms of repulsive interactions of polaritons with the reservoir at the first threshold and as a result of the excessive free-carrier induced refractive index change of the microcavity at the second threshold. This observation offers a way to achieve multiple phases of photonic condensates in samples, e.g., containing novel materials as an active layer, where two-threshold behavior is impossible to achieve with a single excitation spot.
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Polariton Bose-Einstein condensate from a bound state in the continuum. Nature 2022; 605:447-452. [PMID: 35585343 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04583-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2021] [Accepted: 02/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Bound states in the continuum (BICs)1-3 are peculiar topological states that, when realized in a planar photonic crystal lattice, are symmetry-protected from radiating in the far field despite lying within the light cone4. These BICs possess an invariant topological charge given by the winding number of the polarization vectors5, similar to vortices in quantum fluids such as superfluid helium and atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. In spite of several reports of optical BICs in patterned dielectric slabs with evidence of lasing, their potential as topologically protected states with theoretically infinite lifetime has not yet been fully exploited. Here we show non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation of polaritons-hybrid light-matter excitations-occurring in a BIC thanks to its peculiar non-radiative nature, which favours polariton accumulation. The combination of the ultralong BIC lifetime and the tight confinement of the waveguide geometry enables the achievement of an extremely low threshold density for condensation, which is reached not in the dispersion minimum but at a saddle point in reciprocal space. By bridging bosonic condensation and symmetry-protected radiation eigenmodes, we reveal ways of imparting topological properties onto macroscopic quantum states with unexplored dispersion features. Such an observation may open a route towards energy-efficient polariton condensation in cost-effective integrated devices, ultimately suited for the development of hybrid light-matter optical circuits.
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Zhao J, Fieramosca A, Bao R, Du W, Dini K, Su R, Feng J, Luo Y, Sanvitto D, Liew TCH, Xiong Q. Nonlinear polariton parametric emission in an atomically thin semiconductor based microcavity. NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY 2022; 17:396-402. [PMID: 35288672 DOI: 10.1038/s41565-022-01073-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2021] [Accepted: 01/04/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Parametric nonlinear optical processes are at the heart of nonlinear optics underpinning the central role in the generation of entangled photons as well as the realization of coherent optical sources. Exciton-polaritons are capable to sustain parametric scattering at extremely low threshold, offering a readily accessible platform to study bosonic fluids. Recently, two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have attracted great attention in strong light-matter interactions due to robust excitonic transitions and unique spin-valley degrees of freedom. However, further progress is hindered by the lack of realizations of strong nonlinear effects in TMD polaritons. Here, we demonstrate a realization of nonlinear optical parametric polaritons in a WS2 monolayer microcavity pumped at the inflection point and triggered in the ground state. We observed the formation of a phase-matched idler state and nonlinear amplification that preserves the valley population and survives up to room temperature. Our results open a new door towards the realization of the future for all-optical valley polariton nonlinear devices.
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- Jiaxin Zhao
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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, China
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- CNR NANOTEC Institute of Nanotechnology, Lecce, Italy
- INFN National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lecce, Italy
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
- MajuLab, International Joint Research Unit UMI 3654, CNRS, Université Côte d'Azur, Sorbonne Université, National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics and Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
- Frontier Science Center for Quantum Information, Beijing, China.
- Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing, China.
- Beijing Innovation Center for Future Chips, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
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Satapathy S, Liu B, Deshmukh P, Molinaro PM, Dirnberger F, Khatoniar M, Koder RL, Menon VM. Thermalization of Fluorescent Protein Exciton-Polaritons at Room Temperature. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2022; 34:e2109107. [PMID: 35165941 PMCID: PMC9022594 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202109107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2021] [Revised: 01/21/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Fluorescent proteins (FPs) have recently emerged as a serious contender for realizing ultralow threshold room temperature exciton-polariton condensation and lasing. This contribution investigates the thermalization of FP microcavity exciton-polaritons upon optical pumping under ambient conditions. Polariton cooling is realized using a new FP molecule, called mScarlet, coupled strongly to the optical modes in a Fabry-Pérot cavity. Interestingly, at the threshold excitation energy (fluence) of ≈9 nJ per pulse (15.6 mJ cm-2 ), an effective temperature is observed, Teff ≈ 350 ± 35 K close to the lattice temperature indicative of strongly thermalized exciton-polaritons at equilibrium. This efficient thermalization results from the interplay of radiative pumping facilitated by the energetics of the lower polariton branch and the cavity Q-factor. Direct evidence for dramatic switching from an equilibrium state into a metastable state is observed for the organic cavity polariton device at room temperature via deviation from the Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics at k‖ = 0 above the threshold. Thermalized polariton gases in organic systems at equilibrium hold substantial promise for designing room temperature polaritonic circuits, switches, and lattices for analog simulation.
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- Sitakanta Satapathy
- Department of Physics, Center for Discovery and Innovation, The City College of New York, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace, New York, NY, 10031, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Department of Physics, Center for Discovery and Innovation, The City College of New York, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace, New York, NY, 10031, USA
- The PhD Program in Physics, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 365 5th Ave, New York, NY, 10016, USA
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- Department of Physics, Center for Discovery and Innovation, The City College of New York, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace, New York, NY, 10031, USA
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- Department of Physics, Center for Discovery and Innovation, The City College of New York, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace, New York, NY, 10031, USA
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- Department of Physics, Center for Discovery and Innovation, The City College of New York, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace, New York, NY, 10031, USA
- The PhD Program in Physics, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 365 5th Ave, New York, NY, 10016, USA
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- Department of Physics, Center for Discovery and Innovation, The City College of New York, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace, New York, NY, 10031, USA
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- Department of Physics, Center for Discovery and Innovation, The City College of New York, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace, New York, NY, 10031, USA
- The PhD Program in Physics, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 365 5th Ave, New York, NY, 10016, USA
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Stability of Spin-Wave Solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates of Magnons: A Possible Application in Ferromagnetic Films. MATERIALS 2022; 15:ma15072551. [PMID: 35407882 PMCID: PMC8999475 DOI: 10.3390/ma15072551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2022] [Revised: 03/20/2022] [Accepted: 03/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In this paper, we theoretically investigate the stability of spin-wave solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates of repulsive magnons, confined by an inhomogeneous external magnetic field described by a Gaussian well. For this purpose, we use the quasi-one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation to describe the behavior of the condensate. In order to solve the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, we used two different approaches: one analytical (variational method) and another numerical (split-step Crank-Nicolson method). The stability of the solutions and the validation of the numerical results were confirmed, respectively, through the anti-VK criterion and the virial theorem. Furthermore, the simulations described the behavior of physical quantities of interest such as chemical potential, energy per magnon and central density as a function of the nonlinearity of the model (magnon-magnon interactions). The theoretical results provide subsidies for a better understanding of the nonlinear phenomena related to the Bose-Einstein condensates of magnons in ferromagnetic films.
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Jürgensen M, Rechtsman MC. Chern Number Governs Soliton Motion in Nonlinear Thouless Pumps. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 128:113901. [PMID: 35363022 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.113901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2021] [Accepted: 01/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Nonlinear Thouless pumps for bosons exhibit quantized pumping via soliton motion, despite the lack of a meaningful notion of filled bands. However, the theoretical underpinning of this quantization, as well as its relationship to the Chern number, has thus far been lacking. Here we show that, for low-power solitons, transport is dictated by the Chern number of the band from which the soliton bifurcates. We do this by expanding the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation (equivalently, the Gross-Pitaevskii equation) in the basis of Wannier states, showing that a soliton's position is dictated by that of the Wannier state throughout the pump cycle. Furthermore, we describe soliton pumping in two dimensions.
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- Marius Jürgensen
- Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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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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Hacker N, Malomed BA. Trapping wave fields in an expulsive potential by means of linear coupling. Phys Rev E 2022; 105:034213. [PMID: 35428167 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.105.034213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2022] [Accepted: 03/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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We demonstrate the existence of confined states in one- and two-dimensional (1D and 2D) systems of two linearly coupled components, with the confining harmonic-oscillator (HO) potential acting upon one component and an expulsive anti-HO potential acting upon the other. The systems can be implemented in optical and BEC dual-core waveguides. In the 1D linear system, codimension-one solutions are found in an exact form for the ground state (GS) and dipole mode (the first excited state). Generic solutions are produced by means of the variational approximation and are found in a numerical form. Exact codimension-one solutions and generic numerical ones are also obtained for the GS and vortex states in the 2D system (the exact solutions are found for all values of the vorticity). Both the trapped and antitrapped components of the bound states may be dominant ones, in terms of the norm. The localized modes may be categorized as bound states in continuum, as they coexist with delocalized ones. The 1D states, as well as the GS in 2D, are weakly affected and remain stable if the self-attractive or repulsive nonlinearity is added to the system. The self-attraction makes the vortex states unstable against splitting, while they remain stable under the action of the self-repulsion.
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- Nir Hacker
- Department of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, and Center for Light-Matter interaction, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Department of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, and Center for Light-Matter interaction, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
- Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Casilla 7D, Arica, Chile
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Otero-Martínez C, Ye J, Sung J, Pastoriza-Santos I, Pérez-Juste J, Xia Z, Rao A, Hoye RLZ, Polavarapu L. Colloidal Metal-Halide Perovskite Nanoplatelets: Thickness-Controlled Synthesis, Properties, and Application in Light-Emitting Diodes. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2022; 34:e2107105. [PMID: 34775643 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202107105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2021] [Revised: 11/09/2021] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Colloidal metal-halide perovskite nanocrystals (MHP NCs) are gaining significant attention for a wide range of optoelectronics applications owing to their exciting properties, such as defect tolerance, near-unity photoluminescence quantum yield, and tunable emission across the entire visible wavelength range. Although the optical properties of MHP NCs are easily tunable through their halide composition, they suffer from light-induced halide phase segregation that limits their use in devices. However, MHPs can be synthesized in the form of colloidal nanoplatelets (NPls) with monolayer (ML)-level thickness control, exhibiting strong quantum confinement effects, and thus enabling tunable emission across the entire visible wavelength range by controlling the thickness of bromide or iodide-based lead-halide perovskite NPls. In addition, the NPls exhibit narrow emission peaks, have high exciton binding energies, and a higher fraction of radiative recombination compared to their bulk counterparts, making them ideal candidates for applications in light-emitting diodes (LEDs). This review discusses the state-of-the-art in colloidal MHP NPls: synthetic routes, thickness-controlled synthesis of both organic-inorganic hybrid and all-inorganic MHP NPls, their linear and nonlinear optical properties (including charge-carrier dynamics), and their performance in LEDs. Furthermore, the challenges associated with their thickness-controlled synthesis, environmental and thermal stability, and their application in making efficient LEDs are discussed.
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- Clara Otero-Martínez
- CINBIO, Universidade de Vigo, Materials Chemistry and Physics Group, Department of Physical Chemistry, Campus Universitario Lagoas, Marcosende, Vigo, 36310, Spain
- CINBIO, Universidade de Vigo, Deparment of Physical Chemistry, Campus Universitario Lagoas, Marcosende, Vigo, 36310, Spain
- Galicia Sur Health Research Institute (IIS Galicia Sur). SERGAS-UVIGO, Vigo, 36310, Spain
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- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 19 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK
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- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 19 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK
- Department of Emerging Materials Science, DGIST, Daegu, 42988, Republic of Korea
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- CINBIO, Universidade de Vigo, Deparment of Physical Chemistry, Campus Universitario Lagoas, Marcosende, Vigo, 36310, Spain
- Galicia Sur Health Research Institute (IIS Galicia Sur). SERGAS-UVIGO, Vigo, 36310, Spain
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- CINBIO, Universidade de Vigo, Deparment of Physical Chemistry, Campus Universitario Lagoas, Marcosende, Vigo, 36310, Spain
- Galicia Sur Health Research Institute (IIS Galicia Sur). SERGAS-UVIGO, Vigo, 36310, Spain
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- School of Physics and Optoelectronics, State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fiber Laser Materials and Applied Techniques, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510641, P. R. China
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- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 19 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK
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- Department of Materials, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- CINBIO, Universidade de Vigo, Materials Chemistry and Physics Group, Department of Physical Chemistry, Campus Universitario Lagoas, Marcosende, Vigo, 36310, Spain
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Shishkov VY, Andrianov ES, Zasedatelev AV, Lagoudakis PG, Lozovik YE. Exact Analytical Solution for the Density Matrix of a Nonequilibrium Polariton Bose-Einstein Condensate. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 128:065301. [PMID: 35213178 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.065301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2021] [Accepted: 01/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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In this Letter, we give an analytical quantum description of a nonequilibrium polariton Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) based on the solution of the master equation for the full polariton density matrix in the limit of fast thermalization. We find the density matrix of a nonequilibrium BEC, that takes into account quantum correlations between all polariton states. We show that the formation of BEC is accompanied by the build-up of cross-correlations between the ground state and the excited states reaching their highest values at the condensation threshold. Despite the nonequilibrium nature of polariton systems, we show the average population of polariton states exhibits the Bose-Einstein distribution with an almost zero effective chemical potential above the condensation threshold similar to an equilibrium BEC. We demonstrate that above threshold the effective temperature of polaritons drops below the reservoir temperature.
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- Vladislav Yu Shishkov
- Dukhov Research Institute of Automatics (VNIIA), 22 Sushchevskaya, Moscow 127055, Russia; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 9 Institutskiy pereulok, Dolgoprudny 141700, Moscow region, Russia; and Hybrid Photonics Laboratory, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Territory of Innovation Center Skolkovo, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, building 1, 121205 Moscow, Russia
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- Dukhov Research Institute of Automatics (VNIIA), 22 Sushchevskaya, Moscow 127055, Russia; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 9 Institutskiy pereulok, Dolgoprudny 141700, Moscow region, Russia; and Hybrid Photonics Laboratory, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Territory of Innovation Center Skolkovo, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, building 1, 121205 Moscow, Russia
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- Hybrid Photonics Laboratory, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Territory of Innovation Center Skolkovo, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, building 1, 121205 Moscow, Russia
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- Hybrid Photonics Laboratory, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Territory of Innovation Center Skolkovo, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, building 1, 121205 Moscow, Russia and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Spectroscopy RAS, 5 Fizicheskaya, Troitsk 142190, Russia; Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 101000 Moscow, Russia; Hybrid Photonics Laboratory, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Territory of Innovation Center Skolkovo, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, building 1, 121205 Moscow, Russia; and Dukhov Research Institute of Automatics (VNIIA), 22 Sushchevskaya, Moscow 127055, Russia
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Jiang Z, Ren A, Yan Y, Yao J, Zhao YS. Exciton-Polaritons and Their Bose-Einstein Condensates in Organic Semiconductor Microcavities. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2022; 34:e2106095. [PMID: 34881466 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202106095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2021] [Revised: 09/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Exciton-polaritons are half-light, half-matter bosonic quasiparticles formed by strong exciton-photon coupling in semiconductor microcavities. These hybrid particles possess the strong nonlinear interactions of excitons and keep most of the characteristics of the underlying photons. As bosons, above a threshold density they can undergo Bose-Einstein condensation to a polariton condensate phase and exhibit a rich variety of exotic macroscopic quantum phenomena in solids. Recently, organic semiconductors have been considered as a promising material platform for these studies due to their room-temperature stability, good processability, and abundant photophysics and photochemistry. Herein, recent advances of exciton-polaritons and their Bose-Einstein condensates in organic semiconductor microcavities are summarized. First, the basic physics is introduced, and then their emerging applications are highlighted. The remaining questions are also discussed and a personal viewpoint about the potential directions for future research is given.
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- Zhengjun Jiang
- Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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Ahrens A, Huang C, Beutel M, Covington C, Varga K. Stochastic Variational Approach to Small Atoms and Molecules Coupled to Quantum Field Modes in Cavity QED. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 127:273601. [PMID: 35061426 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.273601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2021] [Accepted: 12/02/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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In this work, we present a stochastic variational calculation (SVM) of energies and wave functions of few particle systems coupled to quantum fields in cavity QED. The spatial wave function and the photon spaces are optimized by a random selection process. Using correlated basis functions, the SVM approach solves the problem accurately and opens the way to the same precision that is reached the nonlight coupled quantum systems. Examples for a two-dimensional trion and confined electrons as well as for the He atom and the H_{2} molecule are presented showing that the light-matter coupling drastically changes the electronic states.
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- Alexander Ahrens
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee 37044, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
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Yu G, Li J, Zong H, Lei M, Chen H, Lang R, Li S, Akbar Khan MS, Hu X. Two-round quasi-whispering gallery mode exciton polaritons with large Rabi splitting in a GaN microrod. OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 29:39788-39800. [PMID: 34809335 DOI: 10.1364/oe.442540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2021] [Accepted: 11/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We investigate the exciton polaritons and their corresponding optical modes in a hexagonal GaN microrod at room temperature. The dispersion curves are measured by the angle-resolved micro-photoluminescence spectrometer, and two types of exciton polaritons are identified with the help of the finite-difference time-domain simulation. By changing the pump position, the photon part of the exciton polaritons is found to switch between the quasi-whispering gallery modes and the two-round quasi-whispering gallery modes. The exciton polaritons formed by the latter are observed and distinguished for the first time, with a giant Rabi splitting as large as 2Ω = 230.3 meV.
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Biegańska D, Pieczarka M, Estrecho E, Steger M, Snoke DW, West K, Pfeiffer LN, Syperek M, Truscott AG, Ostrovskaya EA. Collective Excitations of Exciton-Polariton Condensates in a Synthetic Gauge Field. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 127:185301. [PMID: 34767383 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.185301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2020] [Revised: 07/24/2021] [Accepted: 09/21/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Collective (elementary) excitations of quantum bosonic condensates, including condensates of exciton polaritons in semiconductor microcavities, are a sensitive probe of interparticle interactions. In anisotropic microcavities with momentum-dependent transverse-electric-transverse-magnetic splitting of the optical modes, the excitations' dispersions are predicted to be strongly anisotropic, which is a consequence of the synthetic magnetic gauge field of the cavity, as well as the interplay between different interaction strengths for polaritons in the singlet and triplet spin configurations. Here, by directly measuring the dispersion of the collective excitations in a high-density optically trapped exciton-polariton condensate, we observe excellent agreement with the theoretical predictions for spinor polariton excitations. We extract the interaction constants for polaritons of the same and opposite spin and map out the characteristic spin textures in an interacting spinor condensate of exciton polaritons.
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- D Biegańska
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies and Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
- Department of Experimental Physics, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies and Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
- Department of Experimental Physics, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies and Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
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- Department of Experimental Physics, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland
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- Laser Physics Centre, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies and Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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Chen F, Li H, Zhou H, Ye Z, Luo S, Sun Z, Sun F, Wang J, Xu H, Xu H, Chen Z, Wu J. Ultrafast dynamics of exciton-polariton in optically tailored potential landscapes at room temperature. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2021; 34:024001. [PMID: 34614483 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ac2d5e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2021] [Accepted: 10/06/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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In this work, by using femtosecond angle-resolved spectroscopic imaging technique, the ultrafast dynamics of confined exciton-polaritons in an optical induced potential well based on a ZnO whispering-gallery microcavity is explicitly visualized. The sub-picosecond transition between succeeding quantum harmonic oscillator states can be experimentally distinguished. The landscape of the potential well can be modified by the pump power, the spatial distance and the time delay of the two input laser pulses. Clarifying the underlying mechanism of the polariton harmonic oscillator is interesting for the applications of polariton-based optoelectronic devices and quantum information processing.
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- Fei Chen
- 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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- Department of Physics, College of Physical Science and Technology, Xiamen University, 361005 Xiamen, 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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- Department of Physics, College of Physical Science and Technology, Xiamen University, 361005 Xiamen, 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
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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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- Department of Physics, College of Physical Science and Technology, Xiamen University, 361005 Xiamen, 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
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, People's Republic of China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai 201800, People's Republic of China
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Two-dimensional semiconductors inside optical microcavities have emerged as a versatile platform to explore new hybrid light–matter quantum states. A strong light–matter coupling leads to the formation of exciton-polaritons, which in turn interact with the surrounding electron gas to form quasiparticles called polaron-polaritons. Here, we develop a general microscopic framework to calculate the properties of these quasiparticles, such as their energy and the interactions between them. From this, we give microscopic expressions for the parameters entering a Landau theory for the polaron-polaritons, which offers a simple yet powerful way to describe such interacting light–matter many-body systems. As an example of the application of our framework, we then use the ladder approximation to explore the properties of the polaron-polaritons. Furthermore, we show that they can be measured in a non-demolition way via the light transmission/reflection spectrum of the system. Finally, we demonstrate that the Landau effective interaction mediated by electron-hole excitations is attractive leading to red shifts of the polaron-polaritons. Our work provides a systematic framework to study exciton-polaritons in electronically doped two-dimensional materials such as novel van der Waals heterostructures.
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Sun Z, Beaumariage J, Wan Q, Alnatah H, Hougland N, Chisholm J, Cao Q, Watanabe K, Taniguchi T, Hunt BM, Bondarev IV, Snoke D. Charged Bosons Made of Fermions in Bilayer Structures with Strong Metallic Screening. NANO LETTERS 2021; 21:7669-7675. [PMID: 34516139 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c02422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Two-dimensional monolayer structures of transition metal dichalogenides (TMDs) have been shown to allow many higher-order excitonic bound states, including trions (charged excitons), biexcitons (excitonic molecules), and charged biexcitons. We report here experimental evidence and the theoretical basis for a new bound excitonic complex, consisting two free carriers bound to an exciton in a bilayer structure. Our experimental measurements on structures made using two different materials show a new spectral line at the predicted energy with two different TMD materials (MoSe2 and WSe2) with both n- and p-doping if and only if all the required theoretical conditions for this complex are fulfilled, in particular, only in the presence of a parallel metal layer that significantly screens the repulsive interaction between the like-charge carriers. Because these four-carrier bound states are charged bosons, they could eventually be the basis for a new path to superconductivity without Cooper pairing.
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- Zheng Sun
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
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- National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department of Mathematics and Physics, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina 27707, United States
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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Motional narrowing, ballistic transport, and trapping of room-temperature exciton polaritons in an atomically-thin semiconductor. Nat Commun 2021; 12:5366. [PMID: 34508084 PMCID: PMC8433169 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25656-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2021] [Accepted: 08/18/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide crystals (TMDCs) hold great promise for semiconductor optoelectronics because their bound electron-hole pairs (excitons) are stable at room temperature and interact strongly with light. When TMDCs are embedded in an optical microcavity, excitons can hybridise with cavity photons to form exciton polaritons, which inherit useful properties from their constituents. The ability to manipulate and trap polaritons on a microchip is critical for applications. Here, we create a non-trivial potential landscape for polaritons in monolayer WS2, and demonstrate their trapping and ballistic propagation across tens of micrometers. We show that the effects of dielectric disorder, which restrict the diffusion of WS2 excitons and broaden their spectral resonance, are dramatically reduced for polaritons, leading to motional narrowing and preserved partial coherence. Linewidth narrowing and coherence are further enhanced in the trap. Our results demonstrate the possibility of long-range dissipationless transport and efficient trapping of TMDC polaritons in ambient conditions.
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