Polariton condensates for classical and quantum computing

A Kavokin, TCH Liew, C Schneider… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Polariton lasers emit coherent monochromatic light through a spontaneous emission
process. As a rare example of a system in which Bose–Einstein condensation and …

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 …

Bose-Einstein condensation of long-lifetime polaritons in thermal equilibrium

Y Sun, P Wen, Y Yoon, G Liu, M Steger, LN Pfeiffer… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
The experimental realization of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) with atoms and
quasiparticles has triggered wide exploration of macroscopic quantum effects. Microcavity …

Exciton-polariton trap** and potential landscape engineering

C Schneider, K Winkler, MD Fraser… - Reports on Progress …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities have become a model system for the
studies of dynamical Bose–Einstein condensation, macroscopic coherence, many-body …

Quantum vortex formation in the “rotating bucket” experiment with polariton condensates

I Gnusov, S Harrison, S Alyatkin, K Sitnik, J Töpfer… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The appearance of quantized vortices in the classical “rotating bucket” experiments of liquid
helium and ultracold dilute gases provides the means for fundamental and comparative …

Non-reciprocal band structures in an exciton–polariton Floquet optical lattice

Y del Valle Inclan Redondo, X Xu, TCH Liew… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Periodic temporal modulation of Hamiltonians can induce geometrical and topological
phenomena in the dynamics of quantum states. Using the interference between two lasers …

[HTML][HTML] Exciton-polaritons in lattices: A non-linear photonic simulator

A Amo, J Bloch - Comptes Rendus Physique, 2016 - Elsevier
Microcavity polaritons are mixed light–matter quasiparticles with extraordinary nonlinear
properties, which can be easily accessed in photoluminescence experiments. Thanks to the …

Direct measurement of polariton–polariton interaction strength

Y Sun, Y Yoon, M Steger, G Liu, LN Pfeiffer, K West… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Exciton–polaritons in a microcavity are composite two-dimensional bosonic quasiparticles,
arising from the strong coupling between confined light modes in a resonant planar optical …

Local tuning of Rydberg exciton energies in nanofabricated Cu2O pillars

AS Paul, SK Rajendran, D Ziemkiewicz, T Volz… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Rydberg excitons in Cu2O feature giant optical nonlinearities. To exploit these nonlinearities
for quantum applications, the confinement must match the Rydberg blockade size, which in …

Spontaneous spin bifurcations and ferromagnetic phase transitions in a spinor exciton-polariton condensate

H Ohadi, A Dreismann, YG Rubo, F Pinsker… - Physical Review X, 2015 - APS
We observe a spontaneous parity breaking bifurcation to a ferromagnetic state in a spatially
trapped exciton-polariton condensate. At a critical bifurcation density under nonresonant …