Effects of interactions on correlation, thermalization, and transport of exciton-polaritons

Light-matter interactions are fundamental processes that allow us not only to interrogate material properties but also to coherently control material phases that cannot be reached otherwise. Matter-matter interactions, on the other hand, result in strong correlations and emergent behavior that cannot be explained in terms of single-particle physics. Exciton-polaritons (hereafter "polaritons") are hybrid quasiparticles in a semiconductor quantum-well microcavity that exhibit both light-matter and matter-matter interactions. Polaritons have the effective mass inherited from the ultralight cavity photon mass, which sets polariton transport phenomena to be photon-like and allows macroscopic quantum phenomena such as Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity up to room temperature. Meanwhile, the effect of photon dressing only reduces the exciton-exciton interaction strength by the Hopfield coefficient, which sets the polariton-polariton interaction strength to be exciton-like.

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Doctoral

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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2019

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• Yoon, Yoseob.

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• Keith A. Nelson.

• Chemistry.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122718

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/122718