Exciton-polariton Bose-Einstein condensation

Hui Deng, Hartmut Haug, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto
Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 1489 – Published 12 May 2010

Abstract

In the past decade, a two-dimensional matter-light system called the microcavity exciton-polariton has emerged as a new promising candidate of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in solids. Many pieces of important evidence of polariton BEC have been established recently in GaAs and CdTe microcavities at the liquid helium temperature, opening a door to rich many-body physics inaccessible in experiments before. Technological progress also made polariton BEC at room temperatures promising. In parallel with experimental progresses, theoretical frameworks and numerical simulations are developed, and our understanding of the system has greatly advanced. In this article, recent experiments and corresponding theoretical pictures based on the Gross-Pitaevskii equations and the Boltzmann kinetic simulations for a finite-size BEC of polaritons are reviewed.

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    DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.82.1489

    ©2010 American Physical Society

    Authors & Affiliations

    Hui Deng

    • Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA

    Hartmut Haug

    • Institut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Street 1, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Yoshihisa Yamamoto

    • Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA; National Institute of Informatics, Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan; and NTT Basic Research Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0198, Japan

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    Vol. 82, Iss. 2 — April - June 2010

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