报告题目 | Polaritronics |
报告人 | Prof. Allan H. MacDonald |
报告人单位 | Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, USA |
报告时间 | 2016-07-11 |
报告地点 | 合肥微尺度物质科学国家实验室一楼科技展厅 |
主办单位 | 合肥微尺度物质科学国家实验室、国际功能材料量子设计中心(ICQD) |
报告介绍 | Abstract:
Polariton condensates consist of coupled and coherent vertical cavity-photon and semiconductor quantum well matter-excitation fields. I will discuss the concept of light-matter transfer in polariton condensates and its relationship to Andreev scattering at superconductor/normal metal interfaces and to spin-transfer in spintronics. Light-matter transfer relies on the dressing of electronic states by coherent photon fields and on the approximate conservation in a polariton condensate of the sum of the number of excitons and the number of cavity photons. Whenever electrons flow between an electrode without coherence and a quantum well, or between regions with different photon-exciton coupling strengths, we predict that excitons are generated or destroyed and transferred to or from the polariton condensate. I will also briefly speculate on the potential utility of this effect as a mechanism for electrical manipulation of polariton condensates.
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