Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in a Polariton and Photon Laser

• Main Authors: Ohadi, H., Kammann, E., Liew, Timothy Chi Hin, Lagoudakis, K. G., Kavokin, A. V., Lagoudakis, P. G.
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Polaritons; Photon lasers
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85893; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43892
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We report on the simultaneous observation of spontaneous symmetry breaking and long-range spatial coherence both in the strong- and the weak-coupling regime in a semiconductor microcavity. Under pulsed excitation, the formation of a stochastic order parameter is observed in polariton and photon lasi...