Direct measurement of a non-Hermitian topological invariant in a hybrid light-matter system

R Su, E Estrecho, D Biegańska, Y Huang… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Topology is central to understanding and engineering materials that display robust physical
phenomena immune to imperfections. Different topological phases of matter are …

Electrically tunable Berry curvature and strong light-matter coupling in liquid crystal microcavities with 2D perovskite

K Łempicka-Mirek, M Król, H Sigurdsson… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The field of spinoptronics is underpinned by good control over photonic spin-orbit coupling
in devices that have strong optical nonlinearities. Such devices might hold the key to a new …

Natural exceptional points in the excitation spectrum of a light–matter system

A Opala, M Furman, M Król, R Mirek, K Tyszka… - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
In this work, we observe natural exceptional points in the excitation spectrum of an exciton–
polariton system by optically tuning the light–matter interactions. The observed exceptional …

Topological phase transition in an all-optical exciton-polariton lattice

M Pieczarka, E Estrecho, S Ghosh, M Wurdack… - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Topological insulators are a class of electronic materials exhibiting robust edge states
immune to perturbations and disorder. This concept has been successfully adapted in …

High-resolution coherent probe spectroscopy of a polariton quantum fluid

F Claude, MJ Jacquet, R Usciati, I Carusotto… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Characterizing elementary excitations in quantum fluids is essential to study their collective
effects. We present an original angle-resolved coherent probe spectroscopy technique to …

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 …

Electrically Controlling Vortices in a Neutral Exciton-Polariton Condensate at Room Temperature

X Zhai, X Ma, Y Gao, C Xing, M Gao, H Dai, X Wang… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
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 …

Bogoliubov excitations of a polariton condensate in dynamical equilibrium with an incoherent reservoir

M Pieczarka, O Bleu, E Estrecho, M Wurdack, M Steger… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The classic Bogoliubov theory of weakly interacting Bose gases rests upon the assumption
that nearly all the bosons condense into the lowest quantum state at sufficiently low …

Occupancy-driven Zeeman suppression and inversion in trapped polariton condensates

K Sawicki, D Dovzhenko, Y Wang, T Cookson… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We study the magnetophotoluminescence of an optically trapped exciton-polariton
condensate in a planar semiconductor microcavity with multiple In 0.08 Ga 0.92 As quantum …

Quantum mechanical-like approach with non-Hermitian effective Hamiltonians in spin-orbit coupled optical cavities

P Oliwa, W Bardyszewski, J Szczytko - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
We present a comprehensive analytical model of resonant states in birefringent
microcavities with permeable mirrors. We derive an effective, non-Hermitian photonic …