Persistent circular currents of exciton-polaritons in cylindrical pillar microcavities
arXiv:1709.06530 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.97.195149
Abstract
We have experimentally observed an eddy current of exciton polaritons arising in a cylindrical GaAs/AlGaAs pillar microcavity under the nonresonant optical pumping. The polariton current manifests itself in a Mach-Zehnder interferometry image as a characteristic spiral that occurs due to the interference of the light emitted by an exciton-polariton condensate with a spherical wave artificially shaped from the emission of the same condensate. We have experimentally observed the condensates with the topological charges m = +1, m = -1 and m = -2. The interference pattern corresponding to the m = -2 current represents the twin spiral emerging from the center of the micropillar.
arXiv comment13 figures, 4 pages, Submitted to the Physical Review Letters
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