Multistability of a chiral semiconductor microcavity: a self-consistent approach
arXiv:2604.05945 · doi:10.7868/S3034641X26020044
Abstract
We calculate the effects of polariton bi- and multistability in a semiconductor Bragg microcavity with multiple quantum wells and a chiral photonic crystal on the upper mirror for resonant coherent pumping normal to the structure. Even if the system is not optimized for obtaining photoluminescence with a high degree of circular polarization in the spontaneous mode, it is shown that linear-polarized pumping can cause nonlinear switching to states with a degree of circular polarization of polaritons up to 90%. Calculations were performed in both the mean-field and self-consistent approximations, accounting for the difference in exciton density among the microcavity's quantum wells.
This paper in Russian is published as O. A. Dmitrieva, et al., Zh. Exp. Teor. Fiz. 169, 181 (2026)