1. Relaxation Oscillations of an Exciton-polariton Condensate Driven by Parametric Scattering
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Tian, Chuan, Chen, Linqi, Zhang, Yingjun, Zhu, Liqing, Hu, Wenping, Pan, Yichun, Wang, Zheng, Zhang, Fangxin, Zhang, Long, Dong, Hongxing, and Zhou, Weihang
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Physics - Optics ,Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics - Abstract
We report observation of coherent oscillations in the relaxation dynamics of an exciton-polariton condensate driven by parametric scattering processes. As a result of the interbranch scattering scheme and the nonlinear polariton-polariton interactions, such parametric scatterings exhibit high scattering efficiency, which leads to fast depletion of the polariton condensate and periodic shut-off of the bosonic stimulation processes, eventually causing relaxation oscillations. Employing polariton-reservoir interactions, the oscillation dynamics in the time domain can be projected onto the energy space. In theory, our simulations using the open-dissipative Gross-Pitaevskii equation are in excellent agreement with experimental observations. Surprisingly, the oscillation patterns are clearly visible in our time-integrated images including many excitation pulses, implying the high stability of the relaxation oscillations driven by polariton parametric scatterings.
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- 2022
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