Exciton-polaritons in lattices: A non-linear photonic simulator

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• 作者：Alberto Amo^a ; ^{alberto.amo@lpn.cnrs.fr" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Jacqueline Bloch^a ; ^b
• 关键词：Polaritons ; Nonlinear optics ; Josephson effect ; Flatband ; Condensation ; Honeycomb ; Topology ; Analog quantum simulation
• 刊名：Comptes Rendus Physique
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October-November 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：17
• 期：8
• 页码：934-945
• 全文大小：2796 K

文摘

Microcavity polaritons are mixed light–matter quasiparticles with extraordinary nonlinear properties, which can be easily accessed in photoluminescence experiments. Thanks to the possibility of designing the potential landscape of polaritons, this system provides a versatile photonic platform to emulate 1D and 2D Hamiltonians. Polaritons allow transposing to the photonic world some of the properties of electrons in solid-state systems, and to engineer Hamiltonians for photons with novel transport properties. Here we review some experimental implementations of polariton Hamiltonians using lattice geometries.