| Literature DB >> 27965393 |
Stefano Donati1,2, Lorenzo Dominici3, Galbadrakh Dagvadorj4, Dario Ballarini1, Milena De Giorgi1, Alberto Bramati5, Giuseppe Gigli1, Yuri G Rubo6, Marzena Hanna Szymańska7, Daniele Sanvitto1.
Abstract
We study the spin vortices and skyrmions coherently imprinted into an exciton-polariton condensate on a planar semiconductor microcavity. We demonstrate that the presence of a polarization anisotropy can induce a complex dynamics of these structured topologies, leading to the twist of their circuitation on the Poincaré sphere of polarizations. The theoretical description of the results carries the concept of generalized quantum vortices in two-component superfluids, which are conformal with polarization loops around an arbitrary axis in the pseudospin space.Entities:
Keywords: Poincaré space; condensates; polaritons; quantum vortices; topology
Year: 2016 PMID: 27965393 PMCID: PMC5206528 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1610123114
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205