Non-Abelian physics in light and sound

Y Yang, B Yang, G Ma, J Li, S Zhang, CT Chan - Science, 2024 - science.org
Non-Abelian phenomena arise when the sequence of operations on physical systems
influences their behaviors. By possessing internal degrees of freedom such as polarization …

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 …

Experimental investigation of a non-Abelian gauge field in 2D perovskite photonic platform

L Polimeno, A Fieramosca, G Lerario, L De Marco… - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Electromagnetism, with its scalar charges, is based on an Abelian gauge theory, whereas
non-Abelian gauge theories with vector charges describe strong and weak interactions, with …

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in persistent currents of spinor polaritons

E Sedov, S Arakelian, A Kavokin - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
We predict the spontaneous symmetry breaking in a spinor Bose–Einstein condensate of
exciton-polaritons (polaritons) caused by the coupling of its spin and orbital degrees of …

Trembling Motion of Exciton Polaritons Close to the Rashba-Dresselhaus Regime

W Wen, J Liang, H Xu, F **, YG Rubo, TCH Liew… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We report the experimental observation of trembling quantum motion, or Zitterbewegung, of
exciton polaritons in a perovskite microcavity at room temperature. By introducing liquid …

Persistent polarization oscillations in ring-shape polariton condensates

AV Yulin, ES Sedov, AV Kavokin, IA Shelykh - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
We predict the limit cycle solution for a ring-shape bosonic condensate of exciton-polaritons
confined in an optically induced rotating trap. The limit cycle manifests itself with polarization …

Universal semiclassical equations based on the quantum metric for a two-band system

C Leblanc, G Malpuech, DD Solnyshkov - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We derive semiclassical equations of motion for an accelerated wave packet in a two-band
system. We show that these equations can be formulated in terms of the static band …

Polariton polarization rectifier

ES Sedov, YG Rubo, AV Kavokin - Light: Science & Applications, 2019 - nature.com
We propose a novel photonic device, the polariton polarization rectifier, intended to
transform polariton pulses with arbitrary polarization into linearly polarized pulses with …

Generalized quantum geometric tensor in a non-Hermitian exciton-polariton system

YMR Hu, EA Ostrovskaya, E Estrecho - Optical Materials Express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
In this work, we review different generalizations of the quantum geometric tensor (QGT) in
two-band non-Hermitian systems and propose a protocol for measuring them in …

Ballistic transport of a polariton ring condensate with spin precession

Q Yao, E Sedov, S Mukherjee, J Beaumariage… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
It is now routine to make Bose-Einstein condensates of polaritons with long enough lifetime
and low enough disorder to travel ballistically for hundreds of microns in quasi-one …