Topological photonics

T Ozawa, HM Price, A Amo, N Goldman, M Hafezi… - Reviews of Modern …, 2019 - APS
Topological photonics is a rapidly emerging field of research in which geometrical and
topological ideas are exploited to design and control the behavior of light. Drawing …

Microcavity polaritons for topological photonics

DD Solnyshkov, G Malpuech, P St-Jean… - Optical Materials …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Microcavity polaritons are light-matter quasiparticles that arise from the strong coupling
between excitons and photons confined in a semiconductor microcavity. They are typically …

Universality of open microcavities for strong light-matter coupling

M Król, K Łempicka-Mirek, K Rechcińska… - Optical Materials …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
An optical resonator is utilized to enhance interactions between photons and solid-state
emitters. In particular, when the coupling strength between the exciton within the material is …

Spin polarization of exciton-polariton condensate in a photonic synthetic effective magnetic field

R Mirek, M Furman, M Król, B Seredyński… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We investigate the spin polarization of localized exciton-polariton condensates. We
demonstrate the presence of an effective magnetic field leading to the formation of elliptically …

Magnetic control of polariton spin transport

D Caputo, ES Sedov, D Ballarini, MM Glazov… - Communications …, 2019 - nature.com
Polaritons are hybrid light–matter quasiparticles arising from the strong coupling of excitons
and photons. Owing to the spin degree-of-freedom, polaritons form spinor fluids able to …

Magnetic field effect on the lasing threshold of a semimagnetic polariton condensate

JG Rousset, B Piętka, M Król, R Mirek, K Lekenta… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We evidence magnetic field triggered polariton lasing in a microcavity containing
semimagnetic quantum wells. This effect is associated with a decrease of the polariton …

Giant spin Meissner effect in a nonequilibrium exciton-polariton gas

M Król, R Mirek, D Stephan, K Lekenta, JG Rousset… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
The suppression of Zeeman energy splitting due to spin-dependent interactions (the spin
Meissner effect) was predicted to occur within a Bose-Einstein condensate. We report a …

Magneto-optical induced supermode switching in quantum fluids of light

M Furman, R Mirek, M Król, W Pacuski… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
The insensitivity of photons towards external magnetic fields forms one of the hardest
barriers against efficient magneto-optical control, aiming at modulating the polarization state …

(Cd, Zn, Mg) Te-based microcavity on MgTe sacrificial buffer: Growth, lift-off, and transmission studies of polaritons

B Seredyński, M Król, P Starzyk, R Mirek… - Physical Review …, 2018 - APS
Opaque substrates precluded, so far, transmission studies of II-VI semiconductor
microcavities. This work presents the design and molecular beam epitaxy growth of …

Robust polaritons in magnetic monolayers of

Y Zhumagulov, S Chiavazzo, IA Shelykh, O Kyriienko - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We show that the regime of strong light-matter coupling with remarkable magnetic properties
can be implemented in systems based on monolayers of chromium triiodide (CrI 3). This two …