Driven-dissipative spin chain model based on exciton-polariton condensates
Abstract
An infinite chain of driven-dissipative condensate spins with uniform nearest-neighbor coherent coupling is solved analytically and investigated numerically. Above a critical occupation threshold the condensates undergo spontaneous spin bifurcation (becoming magnetized) forming a binary chain of spin-up or spin-down states. Minimization of the bifurcation threshold determines the magnetic order as a function of the coupling strength. This allows control of multiple magnetic orders via adiabatic (slow ramping of) pumping. In addition to ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic ordered states we show the formation of a paired-spin ordered state |···↑↑↓↓···⟩ as a consequence of the phase degree of freedom between condensates.
Citation
Sigurdsson , H , Ramsay , A J , Ohadi , H , Rubo , Y G , Liew , T C H , Baumberg , J J & Shelykh , I A 2017 , ' Driven-dissipative spin chain model based on exciton-polariton condensates ' , Physical Review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics , vol. 96 , no. 15 , 155403 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.155403
Publication
Physical Review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
2469-9950Type
Journal article
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© 2017, American Physical Society. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.155403
Description
This work was supported by the Research Fund of the University of Iceland, The Icelandic Research Fund, Grant No. 163082-051, Grant No. EPSRC EP/L027151/1, Grant No. ERC LINASS 320503, the Mexican Conacyt Grant No. 251808, and the Singaporean MOE GrantsNo. 2015-T2-1-055 and No. 2016-T1-1-084. I.A.S. acknowledges support from a mega-grant No. 14.Y26.31.0015 and GOSZADANIE No.3.2614.2017/4.6 of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation.Items in the St Andrews Research Repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.