- Accepted Paper
Hidden chirality and half-vortex formation in polariton condensates
Phys. Rev. B - Accepted 29 September, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/tdhq-gtzx
Phys. Rev. B - Accepted 29 September, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/tdhq-gtzx
We show that a radially symmetric, nonresonantly pumped spinor exciton-polariton condensate can acquire chirality without a rotating drive, chiral geometry, or pump orbital angular momentum. Spin relaxation in a two-reservoir system shifts the reservoir-induced blueshift relative to the gain profile, creating an effective non-Hermitian chiral potential. A reduced angular-mode theory reveals tunable exceptional points and non-reciprocal coupling between counter-rotating modes. Full driven-dissipative Gross-Pitaevskii simulations show that this hidden chirality enables all-optical formation of spin-selective half-vortices.
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