Theory of exciton-polariton condensation in gap-confined eigenmodes

Abstract

Exciton-polaritons are bosonic-like elementary excitations in semiconductors, which have been recently shown to display large occupancy of topologically protected polariton bound states in the continuum in suitably engineered photonic lattices [Nature {\bf 605}, 447 (2022)], compatible with the definition of polariton condensation. However, a full theoretical description of such condensation mechanism that is based on a non equilibrium Gross-Pitaevskii formulation is still missing. Given that the latter is well known to account for polariton condensation in conventional semiconductor microcavities, here we report on its multi-mode generalization, showing that it allows to fully interpret the recent experimental findings in patterned photonic lattices, including emission characteristics and condensation thresholds. Beyond that, it is shown that the polariton condensation in these systems is actually the result of an interplay between negative mass confinement of polariton eigenstates (e.g., due to the photonic gap originated from the periodic pattern in plane) and polariton losses. We are then able to show that polariton condensation can also occur in gap-confined bright modes, i.e., coupling of QW excitons to a dark photonic mode is not necessarily required to achieve a macroscopic occupation with low population threshold.

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