The University of Southampton
University of Southampton Institutional Repository

Occupancy-driven Zeeman suppression and inversion in trapped polariton condensates

Occupancy-driven Zeeman suppression and inversion in trapped polariton condensates
Occupancy-driven Zeeman suppression and inversion in trapped polariton condensates
We study the magnetophotoluminescence of an optically trapped exciton-polariton condensate in a planar semiconductor microcavity with multiple quantum wells. Extremely high condensate coherence time and continuous control over the polariton confinement are among the advantages provided by optical trapping. This allows us to resolve magnetically induced fine-energy shifts in the condensate and identify unusual dynamical regions in its parameter space. We observe polariton Zeeman splitting and, in small traps with tight confinement, demonstrate its full parametric screening when the condensate density exceeds a critical value, reminiscent of the spin-Meissner effect. For larger optical traps, we observe a complete inversion in the Zeeman splitting as a function of power, underlining the importance of condensate confinement and interactions with its background reservoir excitons.
2469-9950
Sawicki, Krzysztof
10cb117e-93e1-4857-9c21-2f258d9302f6
Dovzhenko, Dmitriy
aafb64cd-a457-4b51-9a83-32ab0fea5d16
Wang, Yuan
6e0aca42-6096-47c8-b11a-a8072348fac5
Cookson, Tamsin
70c15876-7c6d-4de5-a0ce-cc4beb12a324
Sigurðsson, Helgi
98664d41-42da-4da5-8584-ae8e0cad894c
Lagoudakis, Pavlos G.
ea50c228-f006-4edf-8459-60015d961bbf
Sawicki, Krzysztof
10cb117e-93e1-4857-9c21-2f258d9302f6
Dovzhenko, Dmitriy
aafb64cd-a457-4b51-9a83-32ab0fea5d16
Wang, Yuan
6e0aca42-6096-47c8-b11a-a8072348fac5
Cookson, Tamsin
70c15876-7c6d-4de5-a0ce-cc4beb12a324
Sigurðsson, Helgi
98664d41-42da-4da5-8584-ae8e0cad894c
Lagoudakis, Pavlos G.
ea50c228-f006-4edf-8459-60015d961bbf

Sawicki, Krzysztof, Dovzhenko, Dmitriy, Wang, Yuan, Cookson, Tamsin, Sigurðsson, Helgi and Lagoudakis, Pavlos G. (2024) Occupancy-driven Zeeman suppression and inversion in trapped polariton condensates. Physical Review B, 109 (12), [125307]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.109.125307).

Record type: Article

Abstract

We study the magnetophotoluminescence of an optically trapped exciton-polariton condensate in a planar semiconductor microcavity with multiple quantum wells. Extremely high condensate coherence time and continuous control over the polariton confinement are among the advantages provided by optical trapping. This allows us to resolve magnetically induced fine-energy shifts in the condensate and identify unusual dynamical regions in its parameter space. We observe polariton Zeeman splitting and, in small traps with tight confinement, demonstrate its full parametric screening when the condensate density exceeds a critical value, reminiscent of the spin-Meissner effect. For larger optical traps, we observe a complete inversion in the Zeeman splitting as a function of power, underlining the importance of condensate confinement and interactions with its background reservoir excitons.

This record has no associated files available for download.

More information

Accepted/In Press date: 27 February 2024
Published date: 26 March 2024

Identifiers

Local EPrints ID: 496883
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/496883
ISSN: 2469-9950
PURE UUID: e2fe8619-292c-49bf-8a8c-155aee7c5e1a
ORCID for Krzysztof Sawicki: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1617-2678
ORCID for Yuan Wang: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0688-3276
ORCID for Pavlos G. Lagoudakis: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3557-5299

Catalogue record

Date deposited: 08 Jan 2025 11:30
Last modified: 10 Jan 2025 03:11

Export record

Altmetrics

Contributors

Author: Dmitriy Dovzhenko
Author: Yuan Wang ORCID iD
Author: Tamsin Cookson
Author: Helgi Sigurðsson
Author: Pavlos G. Lagoudakis ORCID iD

Download statistics

Downloads from ePrints over the past year. Other digital versions may also be available to download e.g. from the publisher's website.

View more statistics

Atom RSS 1.0 RSS 2.0

Contact ePrints Soton: eprints@soton.ac.uk

ePrints Soton supports OAI 2.0 with a base URL of http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/oai2

This repository has been built using EPrints software, developed at the University of Southampton, but available to everyone to use.

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue without changing your settings, we will assume that you are happy to receive cookies on the University of Southampton website.

×