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Cavity Higgs polaritons

Zachary M. Raines, Andrew A. Allocca, Mohammad Hafezi, and Victor M. Galitski
Phys. Rev. Research 2, 013143 – Published 10 February 2020

Abstract

Motivated by the dramatic success of realizing cavity exciton-polariton condensation in experiment we consider the formation of polaritons from cavity photons and the amplitude or Higgs mode of a superconductor. Enabled by the recently predicted and observed supercurrent-induced linear coupling between these excitations and light, we find that hybridization between Higgs excitations in a disordered quasi-2D superconductor and resonant cavity photons can occur, forming Higgs-polariton states. This provides the potential for a new means to manipulate the superconducting state as well as the potential for novel photonic cavity circuit elements.

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  • Received 8 August 2019
  • Revised 12 December 2019
  • Accepted 17 December 2019

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.013143

Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.

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Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied PhysicsAtomic, Molecular & Optical

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Zachary M. Raines1,2,*, Andrew A. Allocca1,2, Mohammad Hafezi1, and Victor M. Galitski1,2

  • 1Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
  • 2Condensed Matter Theory Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA

  • *raineszm@umd.edu

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Vol. 2, Iss. 1 — February - April 2020

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