Juggins, RT;
Keeling, J;
Szymanska, MH;
(2018)
Coherently driven microcavity-polaritons and the question of superfluidity.
Nature Communications
, 9
, Article 4062. 10.1038/s41467-018-06436-2.
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Abstract
Due to their driven-dissipative nature, photonic quantum fluids present new challenges in understanding superfluidity. Some associated effects have been observed, and notably the report of nearly dissipationless flow for coherently driven microcavity-polaritons was taken as a smoking gun for superflow. Here, we show that the superfluid response—the difference between responses to longitudinal and transverse forces—is zero for coherently driven polaritons. This is a consequence of the gapped excitation spectrum caused by external phase locking. Furthermore, while a normal component exists at finite pump momentum, the remainder forms a rigid state that is unresponsive to either longitudinal or transverse perturbations. Interestingly, the total response almost vanishes when the real part of the excitation spectrum has a linear dispersion, which was the regime investigated experimentally. This suggests that the observed suppression of scattering should be interpreted as a sign of this new rigid state and not a superfluid.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Coherently driven microcavity-polaritons and the question of superfluidity |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41467-018-06436-2 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06436-2 |
| Language: | English |
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| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10060349 |
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