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 …

Topological physics of non-Hermitian optics and photonics: a review

H Wang, X Zhang, J Hua, D Lei, M Lu, Y Chen - Journal of Optics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The notion of non-Hermitian optics and photonics rooted in quantum mechanics and
photonic systems has recently attracted considerable attention ushering in tremendous …

Observation of non-Hermitian degeneracies in a chaotic exciton-polariton billiard

T Gao, E Estrecho, KY Bliokh, TCH Liew, MD Fraser… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Exciton-polaritons are hybrid light–matter quasiparticles formed by strongly interacting
photons and excitons (electron–hole pairs) in semiconductor microcavities,,. They have …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Direct measurement of polariton-polariton interaction strength in the Thomas-Fermi regime of exciton-polariton condensation

E Estrecho, T Gao, N Bobrovska, D Comber-Todd… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Bosonic condensates of exciton polaritons (light-matter quasiparticles in a semiconductor)
provide a solid-state platform for studies of nonequilibrium quantum systems with a …

Antiferromagnetic Ising model in a triangular vortex lattice of quantum fluids of light

S Alyatkin, C Milián, YV Kartashov, KA Sitnik… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Vortices are topologically distinctive objects appearing as phase twists in coherent fields of
optical beams and Bose-Einstein condensates. Structured networks and artificial lattices of …

Polariton-enhanced exciton transport

DM Myers, S Mukherjee, J Beaumariage, DW Snoke… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
The transport distance of excitons in exciton-polariton systems has previously been
assumed to be very small (≲ 1 μ m). The sharp spatial profiles observed when generating …