Spontaneous polariton currents in periodic lateral chains
arXiv:1612.01185 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.067406
Abstract
We predict spontaneous generation of superfluid polariton currents in planar microcavities with lateral periodic modulation of both potential and decay rate. A spontaneous breaking of spatial inversion symmetry of a polariton condensate emerges at a critical pumping, and the current direction is stochastically chosen. We analyse the stability of the current with respect to the fluctuations of the condensate. A peculiar spatial current domain structure emerges, where the current direction is switched at the domain walls, and the characteristic domain size and lifetime scale with the pumping power.
6+6 pages, 4+1 figures (with supplemental material)
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