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Direct Observation of Dirac Cones and a Flatband in a Honeycomb Lattice for Polaritons
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Two-dimensional lattices of coupled micropillars etched in a planar semiconductor microcavity offer a workbench to engineer the band structure of polaritons. We report experimental studies of honeycomb lattices where the polariton low-energy dispersion is analogous to that of electrons in graphene. Using energy-resolved photoluminescence, we directly observe Dirac cones, around which the dynamics of polaritons is described by the Dirac equation for massless particles. At higher energies, we observe p orbital bands, one of them with the nondispersive character of a flatband. The realization of this structure which holds massless, massive, and infinitely massive particles opens the route towards studies of the interplay of dispersion, interactions, and frustration in a novel and controlled environment.
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The paper reports direct observation of Dirac cones and a flatband in a honeycomb lattice of coupled semiconductor micropillars for polaritons. Energy-resolved photoluminescence reveals graphene-like π/π* bands with Dirac points and higher-energy P bands including a nondispersive flatband.
Key findings
- The two lowest S bands mimic graphene’s π and π* bands, with six Dirac cones at the corners of the first Brillouin zone; a tight-binding fit gives first- and second-neighbor tunneling \(t = 0.25\) meV and \(t' = -0.02\) meV, and group velocity \(v = 3at/2\hbar = 1.3 \times 10^6\) m/s around the Dirac points.
- Higher-energy P bands appear above the S bands, separated by \(\Delta E = 3.2\) meV between the two lowest-energy states of individual pillars; the lowest P band is flat, with an infinite effective mass, and the P bands are separated by a gap of about 0.7 meV in Fig. 1(d).
- Increasing excitation intensity produces polariton condensation at the top of the π* band at the Γ point, with a threshold, single emission line, spatial coherence over the pump spot, and a π phase shift between adjacent pillars.
- The flatband real-space mode has intensity maxima between pillars arranged in a kagome geometry; a tight-binding model with \(t_\parallel = -1\) meV and \(t_\perp = 0\) meV gives two flat extreme bands, while \(t_\perp = 0.2\) meV makes them dispersive, and an energy-dependent \(t_\perp\) explains the observed lower flat and upper dispersive bands.
Methods
- Sample: a \(Q = 72000\) λ/2 microcavity with Ga\(_{0.05}\)Al\(_{0.95}\)As layer, 28 top/40 bottom Bragg mirror pairs, twelve 7 nm GaAs quantum wells, 15 meV Rabi splitting, experiments at 10 K and \(-17\) meV cavity-exciton detuning. A honeycomb lattice of coupled micropillars was etched with pillar diameter \(d = 3\) µm and lattice constant \(a = 2.4\) µm; polariton lifetime is 27 ps at the bottom of the lower polariton band, and tunnel coupling is 0.25 meV.
- Measurements: nonresonant Ti:Sapph laser at 730 nm in a 30 µm spot covering about 30 pillars; energy-resolved photoluminescence collected through a NA = 0.65 objective, dispersed in a spectrometer, and imaged in real or momentum space with a CCD. Low-power excitation probes single-particle physics; a chopper was used at high power to avoid heating.
- Analysis: tight-binding fits to the measured dispersion, including first- and second-neighbor tunneling; a P-state tight-binding model with \(t_\parallel\) and \(t_\perp\); supplementary 2D Schrödinger and Gross-Pitaevskii simulations.
Limitations
- The paper states that the highest available excitation density in the experiment prevented observation of the expected modification in the spatial profile when the condensate evolves into a gap soliton.
- Text-evident: the flatband explanation relies on a phenomenological model in which \(t_\perp\) is assumed to increase with energy, supported by numerical simulations rather than direct measurement of the energy-dependent tunneling.
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“Using energy-resolved photoluminescence we directly observe Dirac cones”
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“We observe the six Dirac points at the corner of the first Bz (yellow points).”
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“In this Letter, we report on a honeycomb lattice for polaritons, made of hundreds of coupled micropillars etched in a planar semiconductor microcavity.”
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“The separation between these two groups of bands is ∆ E = 3 . 2 meV, the energy difference between the two lowest-energy states of the individual pillars.”
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“showing spatial coherence extended over the whole excitation spot.”
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“At higher energy, we observe a group of four bands ( P bands) arising from the coupling between the first excited state of the pillars, which is twice degenerate and has two lobes [22]”
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“we report on the presence of higher-energy bands arising from the coupling between higher-energy modes of the pillars.”
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“we observe a nondispersive band in which polaritons have an infinite effective mass.”
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“Figure 2(a) shows the measured emitted intensity in momentum space at the Dirac points energy [zero energy in Fig. 1(d)]. We observe the six Dirac points at the corner of the first Bz (yellow points).”
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“For our structure, the tunnel coupling amounts to 0.25 meV.”
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“The lowest two arise from the coupling between the fundamental modes of the micropillars.”
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“The two lowest bands ( S bands) arise from the coupling between the fundamental mode of the pillars ( S modes).”
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“By increasing the excitation intensity, we observe polariton condensation, as evidenced by the threshold in the integrated emission intensity [Fig. 3(d)].”
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“At higher energies, we observe p orbital bands, one of them with the non-dispersive character of a flatband.”
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“If we perform the same measurement along line 3 in Fig. 2(a), we show in Fig. 2(d) that the emission is absent in the upper band (dashed line) within the first Bz, and in the lower band (solid line) within the second Bz.”
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“In particular, we evidence six Dirac cones at the corners of the first Brillouin zone (Bz), around which the energy dispersion is linear.”
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“Figures 2(b and c) show the measured energy resolved emission along the lines 1 and 2 indicated in Fig. 2(a), passing through four and three Dirac linear intersections respectively.”
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“At the intersection between two adjacent pillars [white square in Fig. 3(c)], the fringes are shifted by half a period. Thus there is a π phase shift between adjacent pillars, as expected for the antibonding π ∗ band.”
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“Moreover, via resonant excitation of the structure, polariton wave packets can be created with any desired energy and momentum.”
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“Moreover, the emission spectrum collapses into a single emission line, and extended spatial coherence builds up.”
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“The real space emission of the condensate is shown in Fig. 3(b), covering the same area as the pump spot.”
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“In the limiting case where t ⊥ = 0 meV and t ‖ = -1 meV, the eigenstates of Eq. (3) give rise to four energy bands plotted in Fig. 4(c). The two extreme bands are flat, the two intermediate ones are dispersive.”
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“The threshold power is similar to that observed in a planar structure [25].”
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“Note that for low power excitation polaritonpolariton interactions are negligible so that single particle physics of the honeycomb lattice is probed.”
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“It occurs in lattices with multiple sites per unit cell [23] and has been observed along the K -Γ -K ′ directions in angle-resolved electron spectroscopy measurements in graphene [24].”
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“Indeed, the tunneling probability varies exponentially with the barrier height relative to the state, and thus increases strongly for higher energy states.”
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“The simulation is in excellent quantitative agreement with the experimental observation: the lowest P band is indeed flat, while the upper band is dispersive.”
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“However, the states with negative mass are on the contrary trapped in this potential, and serve as a seed for stimulated scattering.”
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“The antibonding mode at the Γ point favors condensation due to two features: ( i ) its negative effective mass and positive interaction energy, ( ii ) its longer lifetime, which stems from the antisymmetric character of the state [2], and from the lower nonradiative recombination rate due to the vanishing polariton density at the constrictions between pillars, where the defect density is larger.”
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“The band structure reported in Fig. 4(a) can then be understood assuming that t ⊥ increases with the energy”
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“The band structure related to Dirac cones has been widely investigated in the energy-momentum space using the bulk measurement with measured density and dispersion pattern [10, 22-25].”
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“One should note that the opening band gap in graphene requires large strain, even exceeding the order of 20% [24, 29], which is attributed to the deformations and anisotropy by applying strain instead of the inner disorders or fluctuation of the graphene.”
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“In the topological photonics context, this technique was used, e.g., to visualize the relativistic Dirac-like dispersion in honeycomb lattices (Jacqmin et al., 2014) and the corresponding edge states (Milićević et al., 2015(Milićević et al., , 2017)).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Jacqmin, T., Carusotto, I., Sagnes, I., Abbarchi, M., Solnyshkov, D. D., Malpuech, G., Galopin, E., Lemaître, A., Bloch, J., & Amo, A.
- Affiliations
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- University of Trento (IT)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2014-03-18
- Volume
- 112
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 116402-116402
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W2043218475
- Cited by
- 509
- References
- 35
- Citations by year
- 2026: 20 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 50 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 44 · 2021: 48 · 2020: 52 · 2019: 35 · 2018: 45 · 2017: 74 · 2016: 39 · 2015: 36 · 2014: 20
- FWCI
- 27.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Locations
- Physical Review Letters (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) (submittedVersion)
- INO Open Portal (submittedVersion)
- Iris (University of Trento) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-11-BS10-0001, ANR-10-LABX-0035)
- 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 › Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices
- Keywords
- polaritons, honeycomb lattice, Dirac cones, flat bands, semiconductor microcavities, graphene analogues, massless Dirac equation, band structure engineering
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