Non-equilibrium Bose–Einstein condensation in photonic systems

J Bloch, I Carusotto, M Wouters - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The study of Bose–Einstein condensation effects in photonic systems has revealed
a rich phenomenology related to spontaneous coherence generation in driven-dissipative …

Observation of Zitterbewegung in photonic microcavities

S Lovett, PM Walker, A Osipov, A Yulin… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
We present and experimentally study the effects of the photonic spin–orbit coupling on the
real space propagation of polariton wavepackets in planar semiconductor microcavities and …

Superpolynomial quantum enhancement in polaritonic neuromorphic computing

H Xu, T Krisnanda, W Verstraelen, TCH Liew, S Ghosh - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Recent proof-of-principle experiments have demonstrated the implementation of
neuromorphic computing using exciton-polaritons, making use of coherent classical states …

Spontaneous coherence in spatially extended photonic systems: Non-Equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation

J Bloch, I Carusotto, M Wouters - arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.11137, 2021 - arxiv.org
In this review, we give an interdisciplinary overview of Bose-Einstein condensation
phenomena in photonic systems. We cover a wide range of systems, from lasers to photon …

Optically induced topological spin-valley Hall effect for exciton polaritons

R Banerjee, S Mandal, TCH Liew - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We consider exciton-polaritons in a honeycomb lattice of micropillars subjected to circularly
polarized (σ±) incoherent pumps, which are arranged to form two domains in the lattice. We …

Propagative oscillations in codirectional polariton waveguide couplers

J Beierlein, E Rozas, OA Egorov, M Klaas, A Yulin… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We report on novel exciton-polariton routing devices created to study and purposely guide
light-matter particles in their condensate phase. In a codirectional coupling device, two …

Independent Tuning of Exciton and Photon Energies in an Exciton–Polariton Condensate by Proton Implantation‐Induced Interdiffusion

MD Fraser, HH Tan, YVI Redondo… - Advanced Optical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The use of high energy proton implantation is demonstrated to precisely and independently
shift the energies of both exciton and photon components of GaAs microcavity exciton …

Directional planar antennae in polariton condensates

D Aristov, S Baryshev, JD Töpfer, H Sigurðsson… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We report on the realization of all-optical planar microlensing for exciton–polariton
condensates in semiconductor microcavities. We utilize spatial light modulators to structure …

Bloch oscillations of hybrid light‐matter particles in a waveguide array

J Beierlein, OA Egorov, TH Harder… - Advanced Optical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bloch oscillations are a phenomenon well known from quantum mechanics where electrons
in a lattice experience an oscillatory motion in the presence of an electric field gradient …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted Polariton Flow Through Tailored Photonic Defects

E Rozas, Y Brune, K West, KW Baldwin, LN Pfeiffer… - Nanomaterials, 2024 - mdpi.com
In non-Hermitian open quantum systems, such as polariton condensates, the local tailoring
of gains and losses opens up an interesting possibility to realize functional optical elements …