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Vincenzo Ardizzone

Special thanks to

Hai Son Nguyen

Hai Chau Nguyen

Daniele Sanvitto

Dimitrios Trypogeorgos

Antonio Gianfrate

Ioannis Georgakilas

Experiment

Theory

Dario Ballarini

Fabrizio Riminucci, Maria Efthymiou-Tsironi, Kirk W. Baldwin,

Loren N. Pfeiffer, Milena De Giorgi

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Outline of talk

Newer results

Polaritons in a saddle dispersion

Variable ballistic-evanescent coupling

Results

Negative mass optical trapping

Evanescently coupled polariton condensates and chains

Introduction

Subwavelength dielectric gratings

Polariton condensation in bound states in the continuum

Ardizzone et al., Nature 605, 447 (2022)

Gianfrate, HS, et al., Nat. Phys. 20, 61 (2024)

HS et al., Nanophotonics 13, 3503 (2024)

Georgakilas, Gianfrate, HS, Trypogeorgos

et al., Work in progress

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A bound state in the continuum (BIC) is an exception to conventional leaky resonances. A BIC lies inside the continuum and coexists with extended waves, but it remains perfectly confined without any radiation.

Bound states in the continuum

General wave phenomenon

Studied in: Quantum mechanics – Acoustics – Photonics - Elastic waves in solids - etc

Lossy wave-mechanical system

Continuum

Hsu et al., Nat. Rev. Mat. 1, 16048 (2016) ; Zhong et al., Materials 16(22), 7112 (2023)

Nanophotonics

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Polarization vortices associated with photonic BICs

Bo Zhen, Marin Soljačić et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 257401 (2014)

 

Photonic crystal slabs

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Photonic slab waveguide

Totally intern reflected guided modes lie beneath the light cone

Photonic grating – Period a

1D modulation folds modes across the Brillouin zone and into the light cone

 

“How to shape photonic band on-demand and taming their losses at will”, Hai Son Nguyen (2024)

Simple mirror-symmetric photonic structures: gratings

Coupling to the continuum possible!

Energy cannot leak outside (TIR)

Bragg replica

Polarization

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H. Sigurðsson, H. C. Nguyen, H. S. Nguyen, "Dirac exciton–polariton condensates in photonic crystal gratings" Nanophotonics, (2024)

Lu et al., Phot. Res. 8, A91 (2020) ; Suh et al., IEEE Journ. of Quant. Elec. 40, 1511 (2004) ; Friedrich and Wintgen Phys. Rev. A 32, 3231 (1985)

 

Symmetric and antisymmetric eigenstates with complex frequencies

Hai Son Nguyen

BIC

 

 

Radiative channel

 

 

 

 

 

Can be tuned!

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H. Sigurðsson, H. C. Nguyen, H. S. Nguyen, "Dirac exciton–polariton condensates in photonic crystal gratings" Nanophotonics, (2024)

BIC!

 

 

 

 

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A simple coupled-oscillator model describes how symmetric and antisymmetric guided modes mix with excitons, forming polaritons

 

Model of exciton-polaritons in the grating

Photons

Excitons

Lower “Dirac” polaritons

H. Sigurðsson, H. C. Nguyen, H. S. Nguyen, "Dirac exciton–polariton condensates in photonic crystal gratings" Nanophotonics, (2024)

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Mean field modeling

Generalized Gross-Pitaevskii equation for forward and backward propagating polaritons

 

Sigurðsson et al., "Dirac exciton–polariton condensates in photonic crystal gratings" Nanophotonics, 2024

Nigro & Gerace, Phys. Rev. B 108, 085305 (2023)

Riminucci et al., Phys. Rev. Lett 131, 246901 (2023)

Simulations – increasing power

Bichromatic condensate solutions

 

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H. Sigurðsson, H. C. Nguyen, H. S. Nguyen, "Dirac exciton–polariton condensates in photonic crystal gratings" Nanophotonics, (2024)

H. S. Nguyen, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 066102 (2018)

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Losses vs localization: Recall the general radiation interference condition (losses)

  • BIC can be moved “smoothly” from the lower to the upper branch
  • Mode competition between localized pumping and the infinite BIC physics

Critical point

Critical point – Mixed ballistic-trapped condensates

Driven zitterbewegung oscillations

Sigurðsson et al., "Dirac exciton–polariton condensates in photonic crystal gratings" Nanophotonics, 2024

Small

pump

Wide

pump

+

-

+

-

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Resonant mode: Ballistic BEC

Localized nonresonant optical pumping

Pump blueshift

 

Ohadi et al., PRX 6, 031032 (2016)

Töpfer, Sigurðsson, et al., Commun. Phys. 3, 2 (2020)

Pump

 

 

Upper polaritons

Lower polaritons

Conventional planar Fabry-Pérot cavities

Convex lower dispersion: Positive effective mass

Optical trapping

Gap-confined BIC+BEC

Pump blueshift

Gianfrate, Sigurðsson, et al., Nat. Phys. 20, 61 (2024)

Pump

NEW: Polariton subwavelength gratings

Concave lower dispersion: Negative effective mass

 

 

 

Credit: Mateusz Król, FUW

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BICs in light-matter systems:

Exciton-polariton condensates

Ardizzone et al., “Polariton Bose–Einstein condensate from a bound state in the continuum” Nature 605, 447 (2022)

Kravtsov et al., „Nonlinear polaritons in a monolayer semiconductor coupled to optical bound states in the continuum” Light: Sci. & Appl. 9, 56 (2020)

Tohru Fujita, et al., „Tunable polariton absorption of distributed feedback microcavities at room temperature„ Phys. Rev. B 57, 12428 (1998)

Sample

[1] Ardizzone et al., “Polariton Bose–Einstein condensate from a bound state in the continuum” Nature 605, 447 (2022)

[2] Kravtsov et al., Light: Sci. & Appl. 9, 56 (2020)

[3] Tohru Fujita, et al., Phys. Rev. B 57, 12428 (1998)

 

Photoluminescence

Effective non-Hermitian Dirac polariton model

Experiment

Polariton lifetime

Quasi

BIC

BIC

BIC condensate

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Gianfrate, Sigurðsson, et al., Nat. Phys. 20, 61 (2024)

Effective non-Hermitiab polariton Dirac Hamiltonian with a potential term

 

 

Below threshold

Above threshold

BIC BEC

Simulation

Real space

Fourier

space

Pump blueshift

(gap-confined)

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Reconfigurable optical tight-binding systems with condensate-BICs

Evanescent coupling leads to formation of

  • Bonded state
  • Antibonded state

Complexes of condensates (2024)

Gianfrate, Sigurðsson, et al., Nat. Phys. 20, 61 (2024)

Two pumps (close)

Two pumps (far apart)

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Gianfrate, Sigurðsson, et al., Nat. Phys. 20, 61 (2024)

Optically simulated bonding of condensates

 

Two pumps (close)

Two pumps (far apart)

 

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Singular optics

Optical control over the BIC topological charge distribution

Symmetry protected BIC nature: Polarization vortices in the far field

Gianfrate, Sigurðsson, et al., Nat. Phys. 20, 61 (2024)

Zhen et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 257401 (2014)

Charges increase!

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Chain of 10 pump spots: Optically induced polariton Bloch bands – dispersion engineering

„mono-atomic”

„di-atomic (SSH)”

Experiment PL

Theory

Gianfrate, Sigurðsson, et al., Nat. Phys. 20, 61 (2024)

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Georgakilas, Gianfrate, HS, Trypogeorgos et al., Work in progress

Grudinina, Voronova, et al., Nat. Comm. 14 3464 (2023)

K-space

R-space

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Two-pump spots

 

 

 

Blue arrows show mass flow towards pump spots (negative mass)

Red arrows show mass flow away from pump spots (positive mass)

Ballistic coupling

Evanscent coupling

 

 

Theory

Experiment

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Theory

Experiment (photoluminescence)

Evanescent regime

Ballistic regime

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Competitition between evanescent and ballistic interactions on a larger scale

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Summary and perspectives

  • Strong light-matter coupling using symmetry protected bound states in the continuum.
  • An effective non-Hermitian Dirac Hamiltonian describes exciton-polariton modes in subwavelength grated waveguides
  • All-optical tailoring of BIC polariton condensates using structured light and negative-mass trapping
  • Paths of investigation:
    • Optical SSH lattice: topological optical lasing
    • Grating interface-mismatch: Jackiw Rebbi polariton states
    • Condensate coupling at negative-positive mass transition point
    • Van-Hove saddle singularity: Density of states sensitivity
    • Complex pump structures to exploit both coupling mechanisms

  1. Gianfrate, Sigurðsson, et al., Reconfigurable quantum fluid molecules of bound states in the continuum Nat. Phys. 20, 61 (2024)
  2. Sigurðsson et al., "Dirac exciton–polariton condensates in photonic crystal gratings" Nanophotonics, 2024
  3. Georgakilas, Gianfrate, Trypogeorgos, Sigurðsson – In preparation

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Tohru Fujita, et al., „Tunable polariton absorption of distributed feedback microcavities at room temperature„ Phys. Rev. B 57, 12428 (1998)

Alexander L. Yablonskii et al., „Polariton Effect in Distributed Feedback Microcavities”  J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 70, 1137(2001)

Experiments in light-matter systems: distributed feedback microcavity polaritons with perovskites at room temperature

Earliest polariton BIC observation but not called a „BIC”

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  1. Suh et al., IEEE Journ. of Quant. Elec. 40, 1511 (2004)
  2. H. Friedrich and D. Wintgen Phys. Rev. A 32, 3231 (1985)

Bound states in the continuum: Interference of radiation

Temporal coupled mode theory: Two coupled resonances also couple via a mutual loss channel (continuum)

When the following condition is met, one eigenvalue takes all the losses and the other becomes lossless

Radiative channel

 

 

 

 

 

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A simple coupled-oscillator model describes how symmetric and antisymmetric guided modes mix with excitons, forming polaritons

Sigurðsson et al., "Dirac exciton–polariton condensates in photonic crystal gratings" Nanophotonics, 2024

In particular, the lower polariton branches can be approximated as…

 

Model of Dirac BIC exciton-polaritons

 

Photons

Excitons

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Two complementing forces towards polariton condensation in 1D gratings

Low losses of BIC help polaritons undergo stimulation and condense

Localized pumping lifts the condensate into the gap – confinement

    • Negative-mass optical trapping

 

 

 

 

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Previous polariton trapping techniques: annular pumps, micropillars, mesas, etc

Annular nonresonant laser profile focused on the cavity plane

 

 

Askitopoulos et al., Phys. Rev. B 88, 041308(R) (2013);

Cristofolini et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 186403 (2013)

(NEW) Negative mass optical trapping (+BIC)!

  • Gain is maximally overlapping with ground state!
  • Reconfigurable!

2024

Not very efficient:

Polariton gain is around the condensate – small overlap

Conventional polariton optical trapping

  • Pump
  • Potential
  • Gain
  • Condensate

 

 

 

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Last bit: Very recent results

Georgakilas, Gianfrate, Trypogeorgos, Sigurðsson – In preparation

  • Anisotropic dispersion in 2D
  • Lowest polariton branch forms a saddle

Grating direction

Single pumped condensate

Hyperbolic isofrequency contours

Fast vs slow phase fronts

Ballistic coupling

Evanscent coupling

 

 

Two pumped condensate: Crossover from evanescent to ballistic coupling

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H. Sigurðsson, H. C. Nguyen, H. S. Nguyen, "Dirac exciton–polariton condensates in photonic crystal gratings" Nanophotonics, (2024)

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Slab waveguide

Grated waveguide

Grated waveguide with QWs

Ardizzone et al., Nature 605, 447 (2022)

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Grating makes a difference between the nearfield and the farfield densitites

 

 

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[Cilibrizzi et al., APL 105, 191118 (2014)]

Photon

Photoexcitation of excitons

Strong light-matter coupling achieved in high-Q cavities

Strong light-matter coupling leads to new eigenmodes: exciton-polaritons

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Incoherent excitation: Power-driven polariton phase transition into a condensate

 

Light from polariton condensates

Balili et al., Science 316, 1007 (2007)

 

 

Photonic losses out of cavity: Coherent light source

Phonon-exciton relaxation

Bosonic final-state stimulated scattering

Excited charge carriers

The nonresonant excitation feeds the condensate with particles and also creates a reservoir of uncondensed particles (mostly excitonic) at higher momenta.

“Hot” exciton reservoir

Condensate

 

 

Credit: Mateusz Król

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