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Evolution of temporal coherence in confined exciton-polariton condensates
journal contribution
posted on 2018-02-19, 13:46 authored by M. Klaas, H. Flayac, M. Amthor, I.G. Savenko, S. Brodbeck, Tapio Ala-NissilaTapio Ala-Nissila, S. Klembt, C. Schneider, S. Hofling© 2018 American Physical Society. We study the influence of spatial confinement on the second-order temporal coherence of the emission from a semiconductor microcavity in the strong coupling regime. The confinement, provided by etched micropillars, has a favorable impact on the temporal coherence of solid state quasicondensates that evolve in our device above threshold. By fitting the experimental data with a microscopic quantum theory based on a quantum jump approach, we scrutinize the influence of pump power and confinement and find that phonon-mediated transitions are enhanced in the case of a confined structure, in which the modes split into a discrete set. By increasing the pump power beyond the condensation threshold, temporal coherence significantly improves in devices with increased spatial confinement, as revealed in the transition from thermal to coherent statistics of the emitted light.
Funding
This work was supported by the State of Bavaria. T.A-N. has been supported in part by the Academy of Finland through its CoE grants 251748 and 284621. I.G.S. has been supported by IBS-R024-D1, the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects funding scheme (project DE160100167), and the Dynasty Foundation.
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- Mathematical Sciences
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Physical Review LettersVolume
120Issue
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KLAAS, M. ...et al., 2018. Evolution of temporal coherence in confined exciton-polariton condensates. Physical Review Letters, 120: 017401.Publisher
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This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Physical Review Letters and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.017401ISSN
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