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Nonlinear route to intrinsic Josephson oscillations in spinor cavity-polariton condensates

S. S. Gavrilov, A. S. Brichkin, S. I. Novikov, S. Höfling, C. Schneider, M. Kamp, A. Forchel, V. D. Kulakovskii

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.90.235309 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

The intrinsic Josephson effect is observed in a two-component polariton condensate in a strained planar microcavity under a resonant pulsed excitation such that only one of the two linearly polarized eigenstates is pumped from the outside. On reaching the threshold density, the polariton-polariton interaction involves a spontaneous breaking of the symmetry between spin-up and spin-down polaritons. As a result, the condensate acquires nearly circular polarization while the pump is strong and then passes to the Josephson oscillation regime since the pump weakens.

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