Dark-soliton molecules in an exciton-polariton superfluid

Autor: Maître, Anne, Lerario, Giovanni, Medeiros, Adrià, Claude, Ferdinand, Glorieux, Quentin, Giacobino, Elisabeth, Pigeon, Simon, Bramati, Alberto
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Phys. Rev. X 10, 041028 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.10.041028
Popis: The general theory of dark solitons relies on repulsive interactions and therefore predicts the impossibility to form dark-soliton bound states. One important exception to this prediction is the observation of bound solitons in non-local nonlinear media. Here, we report that exciton-polariton superfluids can also sustain dark-soliton molecules although the interactions are fully local. With a novel all optical technique, we create two dark solitons and bind them to each other to form an unconventional dark-soliton molecule. We demonstrate that the stability of this structure and the separation distance between two dark-solitons is tightly connected to the driven-dissipative nature of the polariton fluid.
Databáze: arXiv