Artificial life in an exciton-polariton lattice

We show theoretically that a lattice of exciton-polaritons can behave as a life-like cellular automaton when simultaneously excited by a continuous wave coherent field and a time-periodic sequence of non-resonant pulses. This provides a mechanism of realizing a range of highly sought spatiotemporal...

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Main Authors: Banerjee, Rimi, Liew, Timothy Chi Hin
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1447622023-02-28T19:27:40Z Artificial life in an exciton-polariton lattice Banerjee, Rimi Liew, Timothy Chi Hin School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Division of Physics and Applied Physics Science Exciton Polariton Cellular Automata We show theoretically that a lattice of exciton-polaritons can behave as a life-like cellular automaton when simultaneously excited by a continuous wave coherent field and a time-periodic sequence of non-resonant pulses. This provides a mechanism of realizing a range of highly sought spatiotemporal structures under the same conditions, including: discrete, oscillating, and rotating solitons; breathers; soliton trains; guns; and chaotic behaviour. These structures can survive in the system indefinitely, despite the presence of dissipation and disorder, and allow universal computation. Ministry of Education (MOE) Published version This work was supported by the Ministry of Education (Singapore) grant 2019-T2-1-004. 2020-11-24T00:47:09Z 2020-11-24T00:47:09Z 2020 Journal Article Banerjee, R., & Liew, T. C. H. (2020). Artificial life in an exciton-polariton lattice. New Journal of Physics, 22(10), 103062-. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/abc290 1367-2630 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144762 10.1088/1367-2630/abc290 10 22 103062 en 2019-T2-1-004 New Journal of Physics © 2020 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd on behalf of the Institute of Physics and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. application/pdf
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country Singapore
Singapore
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topic Science
Exciton Polariton
Cellular Automata
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Exciton Polariton
Cellular Automata
Banerjee, Rimi
Liew, Timothy Chi Hin
Artificial life in an exciton-polariton lattice
description We show theoretically that a lattice of exciton-polaritons can behave as a life-like cellular automaton when simultaneously excited by a continuous wave coherent field and a time-periodic sequence of non-resonant pulses. This provides a mechanism of realizing a range of highly sought spatiotemporal structures under the same conditions, including: discrete, oscillating, and rotating solitons; breathers; soliton trains; guns; and chaotic behaviour. These structures can survive in the system indefinitely, despite the presence of dissipation and disorder, and allow universal computation.
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title Artificial life in an exciton-polariton lattice
title_short Artificial life in an exciton-polariton lattice
title_full Artificial life in an exciton-polariton lattice
title_fullStr Artificial life in an exciton-polariton lattice
title_full_unstemmed Artificial life in an exciton-polariton lattice
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