Dissipationless Flow and Sharp Threshold of a Polariton Condensate with Long Lifetime

We report new results of Bose-Einstein condensation of polaritons in specially designed microcavities with a very high quality factor, on the order of 10^{6}, giving polariton lifetimes of the order of 100 ps. When the polaritons are created with an incoherent pump, a dissipationless, coherent flow...

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Main Authors: Bryan Nelsen, Gangqiang Liu, Mark Steger, David W. Snoke, Ryan Balili, Ken West, Loren Pfeiffer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2013-11-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.3.041015