Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Geometric frustration in polygons of polariton condensates creating vortices of varying topological charge

  • Tamsin Cookson,
  • Kirill Kalinin,
  • Helgi Sigurdsson,
  • Julian D. Töpfer,
  • Sergey Alyatkin,
  • Matteo Silva,
  • Wolfgang Langbein,
  • Natalia G. Berloff,
  • Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22121-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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There is interest in studying vorticity in systems of light-matter interaction using different platforms. Here, the authors show vortices of topological charge more than one and their scaling in an exciton-polariton condensate using GaAs microcavity with embedded InGaAs quantum wells.