Robust platform for engineering pure-quantum-state transitions in polariton condensates

• Main Authors: Askitopoulos, A., Ohadi, H., Hatzopoulos, Z., Savvidis, P. G., Lagoudakis, P. G., Liew, Timothy Chi Hin
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79249; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/38804
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We report on pure-quantum-state polariton condensates in optical annular traps. The study of the underlying mechanism reveals that the polariton wave function always coalesces in a single pure quantum state that, counterintuitively, is always the uppermost confined state with the highest overlap wit...