Optically trapped room temperature polariton condensate in an organic semiconductor

The strong nonlinearities of exciton-polariton condensates in lattices make them suitable candidates for neuromorphic computing and physical simula- tions of complex problems. So far, all room temperature polariton condensate lattices have been achieved by nanoimprinting microcavities, which by n...

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Main Authors: Wei, Mengjie, Verstraelen, Wouter, Orfanakis, Konstantinos, Ruseckas, Arvydas, Liew, Timothy Chi Hin, Samuel, Ifor D. W., Turnbull, Graham A., Ohadi, Hamid
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1631622024-03-13T02:27:31Z Optically trapped room temperature polariton condensate in an organic semiconductor Wei, Mengjie Verstraelen, Wouter Orfanakis, Konstantinos Ruseckas, Arvydas Liew, Timothy Chi Hin Samuel, Ifor D. W. Turnbull, Graham A. Ohadi, Hamid School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Physics Polaritons Solid-State Lasers Organic Polaritons PFO Polariton Condensation Frenkel Exciton Energy Relaxation The strong nonlinearities of exciton-polariton condensates in lattices make them suitable candidates for neuromorphic computing and physical simula- tions of complex problems. So far, all room temperature polariton condensate lattices have been achieved by nanoimprinting microcavities, which by nature lacks the crucial tunability required for realistic reconfigurable simulators. Here, we report the observation of a quantised oscillating nonlinear quantum fluid in 1D and 2D potentials in an organic microcavity at room temperature, achieved by an on-the-fly fully tuneable optical approach. Remarkably, the condensate is delocalised from the excitation region by macroscopic dis- tances, leading both to longer coherence and a threshold one order of mag- nitude lower than that with a conventional Gaussian excitation profile. We observe different mode selection behaviour compared to inorganic materials, which highlights the anomalous scaling of blueshift with pump intensity and the presence of sizeable energy-relaxation mechanisms. Our work is a major step towards a fully tuneable polariton simulator at room temperature. Ministry of Education (MOE) Published version M.W., G.A.T., and I.D.W.S. acknowledge financial support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) programme grant Hybrid Polaritonics (EP/M025330/1), and from the Scottish Funding Council. W.V. and T.L. were supported by the Ministry of Education (Singapore) Tier 2 grant MOE2019-T2-004. H.O. acknowledges EPSRC through a grant (EP/S014403/1). K.O. acknowledges EPSRC for PhD studentship support through a grant (EP/L015110/1). 2022-11-28T02:59:07Z 2022-11-28T02:59:07Z 2022 Journal Article Wei, M., Verstraelen, W., Orfanakis, K., Ruseckas, A., Liew, T. C. H., Samuel, I. D. W., Turnbull, G. A. & Ohadi, H. (2022). Optically trapped room temperature polariton condensate in an organic semiconductor. Nature Communications, 13, 7191-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34440-0 2041-1723 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/163162 10.1038/s41467-022-34440-0 13 7191 en MOE2019-T2-004 Nature Communications doi:10.21979/N9/SJ20ZW © 2022 The Author(s). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/. application/pdf
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Singapore
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topic Physics
Polaritons
Solid-State Lasers
Organic Polaritons
PFO
Polariton Condensation
Frenkel Exciton
Energy Relaxation
spellingShingle Physics
Polaritons
Solid-State Lasers
Organic Polaritons
PFO
Polariton Condensation
Frenkel Exciton
Energy Relaxation
Wei, Mengjie
Verstraelen, Wouter
Orfanakis, Konstantinos
Ruseckas, Arvydas
Liew, Timothy Chi Hin
Samuel, Ifor D. W.
Turnbull, Graham A.
Ohadi, Hamid
Optically trapped room temperature polariton condensate in an organic semiconductor
description The strong nonlinearities of exciton-polariton condensates in lattices make them suitable candidates for neuromorphic computing and physical simula- tions of complex problems. So far, all room temperature polariton condensate lattices have been achieved by nanoimprinting microcavities, which by nature lacks the crucial tunability required for realistic reconfigurable simulators. Here, we report the observation of a quantised oscillating nonlinear quantum fluid in 1D and 2D potentials in an organic microcavity at room temperature, achieved by an on-the-fly fully tuneable optical approach. Remarkably, the condensate is delocalised from the excitation region by macroscopic dis- tances, leading both to longer coherence and a threshold one order of mag- nitude lower than that with a conventional Gaussian excitation profile. We observe different mode selection behaviour compared to inorganic materials, which highlights the anomalous scaling of blueshift with pump intensity and the presence of sizeable energy-relaxation mechanisms. Our work is a major step towards a fully tuneable polariton simulator at room temperature.
author2 School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
author_facet School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Wei, Mengjie
Verstraelen, Wouter
Orfanakis, Konstantinos
Ruseckas, Arvydas
Liew, Timothy Chi Hin
Samuel, Ifor D. W.
Turnbull, Graham A.
Ohadi, Hamid
format Article
author Wei, Mengjie
Verstraelen, Wouter
Orfanakis, Konstantinos
Ruseckas, Arvydas
Liew, Timothy Chi Hin
Samuel, Ifor D. W.
Turnbull, Graham A.
Ohadi, Hamid
author_sort Wei, Mengjie
title Optically trapped room temperature polariton condensate in an organic semiconductor
title_short Optically trapped room temperature polariton condensate in an organic semiconductor
title_full Optically trapped room temperature polariton condensate in an organic semiconductor
title_fullStr Optically trapped room temperature polariton condensate in an organic semiconductor
title_full_unstemmed Optically trapped room temperature polariton condensate in an organic semiconductor
title_sort optically trapped room temperature polariton condensate in an organic semiconductor
publishDate 2022
url https://hdl.handle.net/10356/163162
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