Optically controlled polariton condensate molecules

Cherotchenko, Evgeniia, Sigurdsson, Helgi, Askitopoulos, Alexis and Nalitov, Anton (2021) Optically controlled polariton condensate molecules. Physical Review B, 103 (11), [115309]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.103.115309).

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Abstract

A condensed-matter platform for analog simulation of complex two-dimensional molecular bonding configurations, based on optically trapped exciton-polariton condensates is proposed. The stable occupation of polariton condensates in the excited states of their optically configurable potential traps permits emulation of excited atomic orbitals. A classical mean-field model describing the dissipative coupling mechanism between p-orbital condensates is derived, identifying lowest-threshold condensation solutions as a function of trap parameters corresponding to bound and antibound π and σ bonding configurations, similar to those in quantum chemistry.

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Accepted/In Press date: 22 February 2021

e-pub ahead of print date: 29 March 2021

Published date: 29 March 2021

Additional Information: Funding Information: H.S. acknowledges the support of the United Kingdom's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Grant No. EP/M025330/1 on Hybrid Polaritonics), and the European Union's Horizon 2020 program, through a FET Open research and innovation action under the grant agreement No 899141 (PoLLoC), and hospitality provided by the University of Iceland, and useful discussions with S. Harrison and P. G. Lagoudakis. A.V.N. acknowledges support from European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 846353. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 American Physical Society.

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