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Giant optomechanical coupling and dephasing protection with cavity exciton-polaritons

P. Sesin1,2, A. S. Kuznetsov3, G. Rozas1,2, S. Anguiano1,2, A. E. Bruchhausen1,2, A. Lemaître4, K. Biermann3, P. V. Santos3,*, and A. Fainstein1,2,†

  • 1Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA) - Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCUYO), 8400 Bariloche, Argentina
  • 2Instituto de Nanociencia y Nanotecnología (INN-Bariloche), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina
  • 3Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik, Leibniz-Institut im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V., Hausvogteiplatz 5-7, 10117 Berlin, Germany
  • 4Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies, 91120 Palaiseau, France

  • *Corresponding author: santos@pdi-berlin.de
  • †Corresponding author: afains@cab.cnea.gov.ar
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Phys. Rev. Research 5, L042035 – Published 7 December, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.L042035

Abstract

Electronic resonances can significantly enhance photon-phonon coupling but are normally avoided in cavity optomechanics due to absorption losses and dephasing by inhomogeneous broadening. We demonstrate experimentally that exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities enable single-particle resonant optomechanical couplings with GHz vibrations reaching record values in the tens of MHz range. Moreover, this resonant enhancement is protected from inhomogeneous broadening by the Rabi gap. Single-polariton nonlinearities and the optomechanical strong-coupling regime become accessible in this platform.

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Phys. Rev. Research 5, L042035– Published 7 December, 2023
  • Received 14 December 2022
  • Revised 10 April 2023
  • Accepted 18 September 2023
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