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Collective state transitions of exciton-polaritons loaded into a periodic potential

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Date
15/03/2016
Author
Winkler, K.
Egorov, O. A.
Savenko, I. G.
Ma, X.
Estrecho, E.
Gao, T.
Müller, S.
Kamp, M.
Liew, T. C. H.
Ostrovskaya, E. A.
Höfling, Sven
Schneider, C.
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QC Physics
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Abstract
We study the loading of a nonequilibrium, dissipative system of composite bosons - exciton polaritons - into a one dimensional periodic lattice potential. Utilizing momentum resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy, we observe a transition between an incoherent Bose gas and a polariton condensate, which undergoes further transitions between different energy states in the band-gap spectrum of the periodic potential with increasing pumping power. We demonstrate controlled loading into distinct energy bands by modifying the size and shape of the excitation beam. The observed effects are comprehensively described in the framework of a nonequilibrium model of polariton condensation. In particular, we implement a stochastic treatment of quantum and thermal fluctuations in the system and confirm that polariton-phonon scattering is a key energy relaxation mechanism enabling transitions from the highly nonequilibrium polariton condensate in the gap to the ground band condensation for large pump powers.
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Winkler , K , Egorov , O A , Savenko , I G , Ma , X , Estrecho , E , Gao , T , Müller , S , Kamp , M , Liew , T C H , Ostrovskaya , E A , Höfling , S & Schneider , C 2016 , ' Collective state transitions of exciton-polaritons loaded into a periodic potential ' , Physical Review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics , vol. 93 , no. 12 , 121303(R) . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.121303
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Physical Review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.121303
ISSN
1098-0121
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Journal article
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© 2016 American Physical Society. This work is 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 http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.121303
 
© 2016 American Physical Society. This work is 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 http://journals.aps.org/prb/
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O.A.E. acknowledges financial support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG project EG344/2-1) and by the EU project (FP7, PIRSES-GA-2013-612600) LIMACONA. I.G.S. acknowledges support from the Academy of Finland through its Centre of Excellence Programs (Projects No. 250280 and No. 251748); Government of Russian Federation (project MK-5903.2016.2); and Dynasty Foundation. E.E., T.G., I.G.S., and E.A.O. acknowledge support by the Australian Research Council.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8281

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