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Phase-Resolved Imaging of Exciton Polaritons

Gaël Nardin

In this PhD thesis, new imaging techniques have been developed in order to explore the physics of semiconductor microcavities. In these structures, composite bosons called exciton polaritons are the result of strong coupling between the cavity mode and qua ...

EPFL2011

Nonlinear Spectroscopy of a Dissipative Polariton Quantum Fluid

Verena Kohnle

After the observation of Bose-Einstein condensation in the solid state in 2006 and the demonstration on its superfluid character in 2009 the interest for the demonstration of the underlying elementary excitations – the Bogoliubov excitations – was growing. ...

EPFL2011

Polariton Superfluids Reveal Quantum Hydrodynamic Solitons

Romuald Houdré, Cristiano Ciuti

A quantum fluid passing an obstacle behaves differently from a classical one. When the flow is slow enough, the quantum gas enters a superfluid regime, and neither whirlpools nor waves form around the obstacle. For higher flow velocities, it has been predi ...

2011

All-optical control of the quantum flow of a polariton condensate

Romuald Houdré, Cristiano Ciuti

Although photons in vacuum are massless particles that do not appreciably interact with each other, significant interactions appear in suitable nonlinear media, leading to hydrodynamic behaviours typical of quantum fluids(1-6). Here, we show the generation ...

2011

Condensate-Free Superfluid Induced by the Frustrated Proximity Effect

Frédéric Mila, Nicolas Laflorencie

Since the discovery of superfluidity in He-4 and Landau's phenomenological theory, the relationship between Bose condensation and superfluidity has been intensely debated. He-4 is known by now to be both superfluid and condensed at low temperature, and mor ...

2011

On the Physics of Exciton-Polariton Condensates

Konstantinos Lagoudakis

After the first demonstration of Bose Einstein condensation in the solid state in 2006 and the establishment of exciton polariton condensates in the wider scientific community, an intense interest has been attracted by this phenomenon at both theoretical a ...

EPFL2010

Superfluidity and Critical Velocities in Nonequilibrium Bose-Einstein Condensates

We theoretically study the superfluidity properties of a nonequilibrium Bose-Einstein condensate of exciton polaritons in a semiconductor microcavity under incoherent pumping. The dynamics of the condensate is described at mean-field level in terms of a ge ...

2010

Quantum fluid properties of polaritons in semiconductor microcavities

Romuald Houdré, Cristiano Ciuti

In semiconductor quantum wells embedded in a high finesse microcavity, excitons, which are bound electron-hole systems, strongly couple to photons, forming mixed quasi-particles called polaritons. Polaritons can be coherently excited by an incident laser f ...

2010

Dynamics of Interactions of Confined Microcavity Polaritons

Taofiq Paraïso

The present Ph.D. thesis consists in a series of experiments carried out in the Laboratory of Quantum Optoelectronics under the direction of professor Benoît Deveaud-Plédran between April 2006 and April 2010. We study the effect of lateral confinement on t ...

EPFL2010

Selective photoexcitation of confined exciton-polariton vortices

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, Gaël Nardin, François Morier-Genoud, Konstantinos Lagoudakis, Barbara Pietka

We resonantly excite exciton-polariton states confined in cylindrical traps. Using a homodyne detection setup, we are able to image the phase and amplitude of the confined polariton states. We evidence the excitation of vortex states, carrying an integer a ...

2010