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Occupancy-driven Zeeman suppression and inversion in trapped polariton condensates

Krzysztof Sawicki1,*, Dmitriy Dovzhenko1, Yuan Wang1, Tamsin Cookson1, Helgi Sigurðsson2,3, and Pavlos G. Lagoudakis1

  • 1School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
  • 2Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, ulica Pasteura 5, PL-02-093 Warsaw, Poland
  • 3Science Institute, University of Iceland, Dunhagi 3, IS-107 Reykjavik, Iceland

  • *k.sawicki@soton.ac.uk
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Phys. Rev. B 109, 125307 – Published 26 March, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.109.125307

Abstract

We study the magnetophotoluminescence of an optically trapped exciton-polariton condensate in a planar semiconductor microcavity with multiple In0.08Ga0.92As quantum wells. Extremely high condensate coherence time and continuous control over the polariton confinement are among the advantages provided by optical trapping. This allows us to resolve magnetically induced ∼µeV fine-energy shifts in the condensate and identify unusual dynamical regions in its parameter space. We observe polariton Zeeman splitting and, in small traps with tight confinement, demonstrate its full parametric screening when the condensate density exceeds a critical value, reminiscent of the spin-Meissner effect. For larger optical traps, we observe a complete inversion in the Zeeman splitting as a function of power, underlining the importance of condensate confinement and interactions with its background reservoir excitons.

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Phys. Rev. B 109, 125307– Published 26 March, 2024
  • Received 9 August 2023
  • Revised 29 January 2024
  • Accepted 27 February 2024
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