Microcavity polaritons for quantum simulation

T Boulier, MJ Jacquet, A Maître… - Advanced Quantum …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Quantum simulations are one of the pillars of quantum technologies. These simulations
provide insight in fields as varied as high energy physics, many‐body physics, or cosmology …

Enabling valley selective exciton scattering in monolayer WSe2 through upconversion

M Manca, MM Glazov, C Robert, F Cadiz… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Excitons, Coulomb bound electron–hole pairs, are composite bosons and their interactions
in traditional semiconductors lead to condensation and light amplification. The much …

Dynamics of dark and anti-dark solitons for the x-nonlocal Davey–Stewartson II equation

CC Ding, Q Zhou, H Triki, Y Sun, A Biswas - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
We investigate the x-nonlocal Davey–Stewartson II equation based on Kadomtsev–
Petviashvili hierarchy reduction method, and then report dark solitons and (semi-) rational …

Dark solitons in high velocity waveguide polariton fluids

PM Walker, L Tinkler, B Royall, DV Skryabin, I Farrer… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We study exciton-polariton nonlinear optical fluids in the high momentum waveguide regime
for the first time. We demonstrate the formation of dark solitons with the expected …

Creation and manipulation of stable dark solitons and vortices in microcavity polariton condensates

X Ma, OA Egorov, S Schumacher - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
Solitons and vortices obtain widespread attention in different physical systems as they offer
potential use in information storage, processing, and communication. In exciton-polariton …

Angle-dependent Andreev reflection at an interface with a polaritonic superfluid

I Septembre, DD Solnyshkov, G Malpuech - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We study analytically an analog of the Andreev reflection at a normal-superfluid interface.
The polariton gapped superfluid region is achieved by quasiresonant optical pum**. The …

Taming the snake instabilities in a polariton superfluid

F Claude, SV Koniakhin, A Maître, S Pigeon, G Lerario… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The dark solitons observed in a large variety of nonlinear media are unstable against the
modulational (snake) instabilities and can break in vortex streets. This behavior has been …

Josephson vortices induced by phase twisting a polariton superfluid

D Caputo, N Bobrovska, D Ballarini, M Matuszewski… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Quantum fluids of light are an emerging platform for energy-efficient signal processing,
ultrasensitive interferometry and quantum simulators at elevated temperatures. Here we …

Weyl singularities in polaritonic multiterminal Josephson junctions

I Septembre, JS Meyer, DD Solnyshkov, G Malpuech - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We study theoretically analog multiterminal Josephson junctions formed by gapped
superfluids created upon resonant pum** of cavity exciton polaritons. We study the p-like …

Probabilistic solving of -hard problems with bistable nonlinear optical networks

O Kyriienko, H Sigurdsson, TCH Liew - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We study theoretically a lattice of locally bistable driven-dissipative nonlinear cavities. The
system is found to resemble the classical Ising model and enables its effective simulation …