Magnetic control of polariton spin transport

Abstract

We show the full control of the polarization dynamics of a propagating exciton-polariton condensate in a planar microcavity by using a magnetic field applied in the Voigt geometry. The change of the spin-beat frequency, the suppression of the optical spin Hall effect and the rotation of the polarization pattern by the magnetic field are theoretically reproduced by accounting for the magneto-induced mixing of exciton-polariton and dark, spin forbidden, exciton states.