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Algebraic order and the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in an exciton-polariton gas

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24/11/2014
Author
Nitsche, W.H.
Kim, N.Y.
Roumpos, G.
Schneider, C.
Kamp, M.
Höfling, S.
Forchel, A.
Yamamoto, Y.
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QC Physics
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Abstract
We observe quasi-long-range coherence in a two-dimensional condensate of exciton-polaritons. Our measurements confirm that the spatial correlation algebraically decays with a slow power law, whose exponent quantitatively behaves as predicted by the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless theory. The exciton-polaritons are created by nonresonant optical pumping of a microcavity sample with embedded GaAs quantum wells at liquid helium temperature. Michelson interference is used to measure the coherence of the photons emitted by decaying exciton-polaritons.
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Nitsche , W H , Kim , N Y , Roumpos , G , Schneider , C , Kamp , M , Höfling , S , Forchel , A & Yamamoto , Y 2014 , ' Algebraic order and the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in an exciton-polariton gas ' , Physical Review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics , vol. 90 , no. 20 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.205430
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Physical Review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics
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Peer reviewed
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.205430
ISSN
1098-0121
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Journal article
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Published by the American Physical Society. This article is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI.
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This research has been supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) through its Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative Research and Development on Science and Technology (FIRST Program), by the U.S. Navy/SPAWAR Grant No. N66001-09-1-2024, and by the National Science Foundation Grant No. ECCS-09 25549. W.H.N. acknowledges the Gerhard Casper Stanford Graduate Fellowship.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5945

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