Controlled ordering of topological charges in an exciton-polariton chain

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Controlled ordering of topological charges in an exciton-polariton chain
المؤلفون: Gao, T., Egorov, O. A., Estrecho, E., Winkler, K., Kamp, M., Schneider, C., Hoefling, S., Truscott, A. G., Ostrovskaya, E. A.
المصدر: Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 225302 (2018)
سنة النشر: 2018
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Quantum Gases
الوصف: We demonstrate, experimentally and theoretically, controlled loading of an exciton-polariton vortex chain into a 1D array of trapping potentials. Switching between two types of vortex chains, with topological charges of the same or alternating sign, is realised by means of appropriate shaping of an incoherent pump beam that drives the system to the regime of bosonic condensation. In analogy to spin chains, these vortex sequences realise either a "ferromagnetic" or an "anti-ferromagnetic" order, whereby the role of spin is played by the orbital angular momentum. The "ferromagnetic" ordering of vortices is associated with the formation of a persistent chiral current. Our results pave the way for controlled creation of nontrivial distributions of orbital angular momentum and topological order in a periodic exciton-polariton system.
Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.225302
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1807.02343
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.1807.02343
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.225302