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To: Kevmo

And of course the work from 2012

Macroscopic quantum self-trapping and Josephson oscillations of exciton-polaritons

M. Abbarchi, A. Amo, V. G. Sala, D. D. Solnyshkov, H. Flayac, L. Ferrier, I. Sagnes, E. Galopin, A. Lemaitre, G. Malpuech, J. Bloch
(Submitted on 21 Dec 2012)
A textbook example of quantum mechanical effects is the coupling of two states through a tunnel barrier. In the case of macroscopic quantum states subject to interactions, the tunnel coupling gives rise to Josephson phenomena including Rabi oscillations, the a.c. and d.c. effects, or macroscopic self-trapping depending on whether tunnelling or interactions dominate. Non-linear Josephson physics, observed in superfluid helium and atomic condensates, has remained inaccessible in photonic systems due to the required effective photon-photon interactions. We report on the observation of non-linear Josephson oscillations of two coupled polariton condensates confined in a photonic molecule etched in a semiconductor microcavity. By varying both the distance between the micropillars forming the molecule and the condensate density in each micropillar, we control the ratio of coupling to interaction energy. At low densities we observe coherent oscillations of particles tunnelling between the two micropillars. At high densities, interactions quench the transfer of particles inducing the macroscopic self-trapping of the condensate in one of the micropillars. The finite lifetime of polaritons results in a dynamical transition from self-trapping to oscillations with pi phase. Our results open the way to the experimental study of highly non-linear regimes in photonic systems, such as chaos or symmetry-breaking bifurcations

Learn some physics will you?


24 posted on 04/06/2013 10:50:58 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Nifster

Learn some physics will you?
***I got an A in Calculus-based Nuclear Physics in College for the engineering curriculum. What grade did you get?

Thanks 4 Bumping The Thread T4BTT

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25 posted on 04/06/2013 10:53:40 PM PDT by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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