Probing Microcavity Polariton Superfluidity through Resonant Rayleigh Scattering
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We study the motion of a polariton fluid injected into a planar microcavity by a continuous wave laser. In the presence of static defects, the spectrum of the Bogoliubov-like excitations reflects onto the shape and intensity of the resonant Rayleigh scattering emission pattern in both momentum and real space. We find a superfluid regime in which the Rayleigh scattering ring in momentum space collapses as well as its normalized intensity. We show how collective excitation spectra having no analog in equilibrium systems can be observed by tuning the excitation angle and frequency.
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The coherent pumping configuration was exploited in the first experiments demonstrating superfluid light, where flow speed and density of the fluid can be directly controlled by the incidence angle, frequency, and intensity of the incident field.
“This configuration was exploited in the first experiments demonstrating superfluid light, as the flow speed and the density of the fluid can be directly controlled by the incidence angle (i.e. the in-plane wavevector), the frequency and the intensity of the incident field [90,91].”
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“This configuration was exploited in the first experiments demonstrating superfluid light, as the flow speed and the density of the fluid can be directly controlled by the incidence angle (i.e. the in-plane wavevector), the frequency and the intensity of the incident field [70, 71].”
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- Authors
- Carusotto, I., & Ciuti, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Trento (IT)
- École Normale Supérieure - PSL (FR)
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2004-10-13
- Volume
- 93
- Issue
- 16
- Pages
- 166401-166401
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W2094215816
- Cited by
- 349
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 6.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hal.science
- Licence
- Locations
- Physical Review Letters (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Strong Light-Matter Interactions
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
- Keywords
- microcavity polaritons, resonant Rayleigh scattering, Bogoliubov excitations, collective excitations, exciton-polaritons, nonequilibrium dynamics
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