Dissipative Josephson vortices in annular polariton fluids

I. Chestnov; A. Yulin; I. A. Shelykh; A. Kavokin

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.104.165305

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Dissipative Josephson vortices in annular polariton fluids

I. Chestnov, A. Yulin, I. A. Shelykh, A. Kavokin

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.165305 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

We consider two concentric rings formed by bosonic condensates of exciton-polaritons. A circular superfluid flow of polaritons in one of the rings can be manipulated by acting upon the second annular polariton condensate. The complex coupling between the rings with different topological charges triggers nucleation of stable Josephson vortices (JVs) which are revealed as topological defects of the angular dependence of the relative phase between rings. Being dependent on the coupling strength, the structure of the JV governs the difference of the mean angular momenta of the inner and the outer rings. At the vanishing coupling the condensates rotate independently demonstrating no correlations of their winding numbers. At the moderate coupling, the interaction between two condensates tends to equalize their mean angular momenta despite the mismatch of the winding numbers demonstrating the phenomenology of a drag effect. Above the critical coupling strength the synchronous rotation is established via the phase slip events.