Motion of patterns in polariton quantum fluids with spin-orbit interaction

O. A. Egorov; A. Werner; T. C.H. Liew; E. A. Ostrovskaya; F. Lederer

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.89.235302

Motion of patterns in polariton quantum fluids with spin-orbit interaction

O. A. Egorov^*, A. Werner, T. C.H. Liew, E. A. Ostrovskaya, F. Lederer

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We report on a remarkable effect of pseudospin precession on the collective motion of exciton-polaritons in a microresonator coherently driven by a linearly polarized pump. In particular, we show that hexagonal patterns can undergo a spontaneous symmetry breaking of their polarization and start a uniform motion in the plane of the resonator. Similar to the optical spin Hall effect, this becomes possible due to a spin-orbit interaction induced by a longitudinal-transverse splitting (TE-TM splitting) of the photonic resonator mode. We derive a simple analytical expression for the drift velocity of the patterns.

Original language	English
Article number	235302
Journal	Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Volume	89
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.89.235302
Publication status	Published - 3 Jun 2014

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