• Accepted Paper

Hidden chirality and half-vortex formation in polariton condensates

A. N. Osipov, I. Y. Chestnov, P. G. Lagoudakis, and A. V. Yulin

Phys. Rev. B - Accepted 29 September, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/tdhq-gtzx

Abstract

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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