Polariton condensates for classical and quantum computing

A Kavokin, TCH Liew, C Schneider… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Polariton lasers emit coherent monochromatic light through a spontaneous emission
process. As a rare example of a system in which Bose–Einstein condensation and …

Microcavity polaritons for topological photonics

DD Solnyshkov, G Malpuech, P St-Jean… - Optical Materials …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Microcavity polaritons are light-matter quasiparticles that arise from the strong coupling
between excitons and photons confined in a semiconductor microcavity. They are typically …

Rydberg exciton–polaritons in a Cu2O microcavity

K Orfanakis, SK Rajendran, V Walther, T Volz, T Pohl… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Giant Rydberg excitons with principal quantum numbers as high as n= 25 have been
observed in cuprous oxide (Cu2O), a semiconductor in which the exciton diameter can …

Nonreciprocal transport of exciton polaritons in a non-Hermitian chain

S Mandal, R Banerjee, EA Ostrovskaya, TCH Liew - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We consider exciton polaritons in a zigzag chain of coupled elliptical micropillars subjected
to incoherent excitation. The driven-dissipative nature of the system along with the naturally …

Planar Optical Cavities Hybridized with Low‐Dimensional Light‐Emitting Materials

J Jang, M Jeong, J Lee, S Kim, H Yun… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Low‐dimensional light‐emitting materials have been actively investigated due to their
unprecedented optical and optoelectronic properties that are not observed in their bulk …

Topological phase transition in an all-optical exciton-polariton lattice

M Pieczarka, E Estrecho, S Ghosh, M Wurdack… - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Topological insulators are a class of electronic materials exhibiting robust edge states
immune to perturbations and disorder. This concept has been successfully adapted in …

From the topological spin-Hall effect to the non-Hermitian skin effect in an elliptical micropillar chain

S Mandal, R Banerjee, TCH Liew - ACS Photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
The topological spin-Hall effect causes different spins to propagate in opposite directions
based on Hermitian physics. The non-Hermitian skin effect causes the localization of a large …

Coherent topological polariton laser

TH Harder, M Sun, OA Egorov, I Vakulchyk… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Topological concepts have been applied to a wide range of fields in order to successfully
describe the emergence of robust edge modes that are unaffected by scattering or disorder …

Non-Hermitian topological end-mode lasing in polariton systems

P Comaron, V Shahnazaryan, W Brzezicki, T Hyart… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
We predict the existence of non-Hermitian topologically protected end states in a one-
dimensional exciton-polariton condensate lattice, where topological transitions are driven by …

Spin-polarized antichiral exciton-polariton edge states

R Bao, S Mandal, H Xu, X Xu, R Banerjee, TCH Liew - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We consider theoretically a system of exciton-polariton micropillars arranged in a
honeycomb lattice. The naturally present TE-TM splitting and an alternating Zeeman …