Microcavity polaritons
Polaritons are half-light, half-matter quasiparticles that appear from strong photon-exciton coupling in quantum wells confined inside microcavities. Due to their light mass, they are able to condense into macroscopic quantum states, forming a 2D quantum condensate that is highly addressable by optical means. Together with their strong nonlinearity and dissipation, they allow for investigation of highly degenerate many body physics in a novel environment.
My current work concentrates on studying quantum phase transitions in controllable and addressable lattices of polaritons.
