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ArticleLight, science & applications2018

Superluminal X-waves in a polariton quantum fluid.

Antonio Gianfrate, Lorenzo Dominici, Oksana Voronych, Michał Matuszewski, Magdalena Stobińska, Dario Ballarini, Milena De Giorgi, Giuseppe Gigli, Daniele Sanvitto

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Article in Light, science & applications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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9 authors.

Antonio GianfrateCNR NANOTEC, Istituto di Nanotecnologia, Via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy.
Lorenzo DominiciCNR NANOTEC, Istituto di Nanotecnologia, Via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5860-7089
Oksana VoronychInstitute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Gdańsk, ul. Wita Stwosza 57, 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland.
Michał MatuszewskiInstitute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland.
Magdalena StobińskaFaculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland.
Dario BallariniCNR NANOTEC, Istituto di Nanotecnologia, Via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy.
Milena De GiorgiCNR NANOTEC, Istituto di Nanotecnologia, Via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy.
Giuseppe GigliCNR NANOTEC, Istituto di Nanotecnologia, Via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy.
Daniele SanvittoCNR NANOTEC, Istituto di Nanotecnologia, Via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3831-8829

Funding

European Research Council 308136
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this work, we experimentally demonstrate for the first time the spontaneous generation of two-dimensional exciton-polariton X-waves. X-waves belong to the family of localized packets that can sustain their shape without spreading, even in the linear regime. This allows the wavepacket to maintain its shape and size for very low densities and very long times compared to soliton waves, which always necessitate a nonlinearity to compensate the diffusion. Here, we exploit the polariton nonlinearity and uniquely structured dispersion, comprising both positive- and negative-mass curvatures, to trigger an asymmetric four-wave mixing in momentum space. This ultimately enables the self-formation of a spatial X-wave front. Using ultrafast imaging experiments, we observe the early reshaping of the initial Gaussian packet into the X-pulse and its propagation, even for vanishingly small densities. This allows us to outline the crucial effects and parameters that drive the phenomena and to tune the degree of superluminal propagation, which we found to be in close agreement with numerical simulations.

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negative massnonlinearitypolaritonssuperluminalX-waves

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PMID30839621
PMCPMC6107045

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