Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Interaction-induced hopping phase in driven-dissipative coupled photonic microcavities

  • S. R. K. Rodriguez,
  • A. Amo,
  • I. Sagnes,
  • L. Le Gratiet,
  • E. Galopin,
  • A. Lemaître,
  • J. Bloch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11887
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Coupled semiconductor microcavities constitute a model system where the hopping, interaction, and decay of exciton polaritons can be engineered. Here, Rodriguez et al. show how the phase acquired by polaritons hopping between cavities can be controlled through polariton-polariton interactions.