Microcavities
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Both rich fundamental physics of microcavities and their intriguing potential applications are addressed in this book, oriented to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as to physicists and engineers. We describe the essential steps of development of the physics of microcavities in their chronological order. We show how different types of structures combining optical and electronic confinement have come into play and were used to realize first weak and later strong light–matter coupling regimes. We discuss photonic crystals, microspheres, pillars and other types of artificial optical cavities with embedded semiconductor quantum wells, wires and dots. We present the most striking experimental findings of the recent two decades in the optics of semiconductor quantum structures. We address the fundamental physics and applications of superposition light-matter quasiparticles: exciton-polaritons and describe the most essential phenomena of modern Polaritonics: Physics of the Liquid Light. The book is intended as a working manual for advanced or graduate students and new researchers in the field.
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The splitting of the longitudinal and transverse polariton modes (LT splitting) in a microcavity gives rise to the pseudospin precession of polaritons in microcavities.
“The splitting of the longitudinal and transverse polariton modes (LT splitting) in a microcavity gives rise to the pseudospin precession of polaritons in microcavities [16, 17].”
From <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">Zitterbewegung</mml:mi></mml:math> of exciton-polaritons (2018) · cites this paper as [16]
Spin precession of noninteracting polaritons around the effective field Ω is due to the longitudinal-transverse splitting of the eigenmodes of the Hamiltonian (1).
“Spin precession of noninteracting polaritons around the effective field ˆ Ω = [ ∆ LT ( ˆ k 2 x -ˆ k 2 y ) , 2∆ LT ˆ k x ˆ k y , 0 ] is due to the longitudinal-transverse splitting of the eigenmodes of the Hamiltonian (1)”
From <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">Zitterbewegung</mml:mi></mml:math> of exciton-polaritons (2018) · cites this paper as [16]
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- Authors
- Kavokin, A. V., Baumberg, J. J., Malpuech, G., & Laussy, F. P.
- Affiliations
- University of Southampton (GB)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (ES)
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressOxford
- Published
- 2017-05-11
- OpenAlex
- W4233735011
- Cited by
- 326
- References
- 38
- Citations by year
- 2026: 33 · 2025: 41 · 2024: 51 · 2023: 45 · 2022: 44 · 2021: 37 · 2020: 32 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 3
- FWCI
- 8.73
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- International Linear Collider (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Strong Light-Matter Interactions
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Photonic Crystals and Applications
- Keywords
- optical microcavities, strong light-matter coupling, exciton-polaritons, semiconductor quantum wells, semiconductor quantum dots, semiconductor nanowires, photonic crystals, microspheres, micropillars, semiconductor quantum structures, light confinement
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