Engineering Photon Statistics in a Spinor Polariton Condensate

Stepan Baryshev; Anton Zasedatelev; Helgi Sigurdsson; Ivan Gnusov; Alexis Askitopoulos; Pavlos Lagoudakis

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.087402

Engineering Photon Statistics in a Spinor Polariton Condensate

Stepan Baryshev
, Anton Zasedatelev
, Helgi Sigurdsson
, Ivan Gnusov
, Alexis Askitopoulos
, Pavlos Lagoudakis

Science Institute

University of Iceland

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Abstract

We implement full polarization tomography on photon correlations in a spinor exciton-polariton condensate. Our measurements reveal condensate pseudospin mean-field dynamics spanning from stochastic switching between linear polarization components, limit cycles, and stable fixed points, and their intrinsic relation to the condensate photon statistics. We optically harness the cavity birefringence, polariton interactions, and the optical orientation of an incoherent exciton reservoir to engineer photon statistics with precise control. Our results demonstrate a smooth transition from a highly coherent to a super-thermal state of the condensate polarization components.

Original language	English
Article number	087402
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	128
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.087402
Publication status	Published - 25 Feb 2022

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Funding Information: The authors acknowledge the support of the United Kingdom’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Grant No. EP/M025330/1 on Hybrid Polaritonics), the RFBR Projects No. 20-52-12026 (jointly with DFG), and No. 20-02-00919. S. B. acknowledge the support of the RFBR Project No. 20-32-90120. A. Z. acknowledges financial support from the Russian Science Foundation (RScF) Grant No. 20-72-10145. H. S. acknowledges the Icelandic Research Fund, Grant No. 217631-051. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 American Physical Society.

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Engineering Photon Statistics in a Spinor Polariton Condensate

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