Interaction-enhanced flow of a polariton superfluid current in a ring
We study the quantum hydrodynamical features of exciton polaritons flowing circularly in a ring-shaped geometry. We consider a resonant-excitation scheme in which the spinor polariton fluid is set into motion in both components by spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion. We show that this scheme...
| Autores: | , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de la UB |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/124421 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/124421 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Quasipartícules (Física) Teoria quàntica Quasiparticles (Physics) Quantum theory |
| Sumario: | We study the quantum hydrodynamical features of exciton polaritons flowing circularly in a ring-shaped geometry. We consider a resonant-excitation scheme in which the spinor polariton fluid is set into motion in both components by spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion. We show that this scheme allows us to control the winding number of the fluid and to create two circulating states differing by two units of the angular momentum. We then consider the effect of a disorder potential, which is always present in realistic nanostructures. We discuss how a smooth disorder can be efficiently screened by the polariton-polariton interactions, yielding a signature of polariton superfluidity. This effect is reminiscent of supercurrent in a superconducting loop |
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