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ArticleScientific reports2021

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in persistent currents of spinor polaritons.

Evgeny Sedov, Sergey Arakelian, Alexey Kavokin

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Evgeny SedovKey Laboratory for Quantum Materials of Zhejiang Province, School of Science, Westlake University, 18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou, 310024, Zhejiang Province, China. evgeny_sedov@mail.ru.
Sergey ArakelianDepartment of Physics and Applied Mathematics, Vladimir State University Named After A. G. and N. G. Stoletovs, Gorky str. 87, Vladimir, Russia, 600000.
Alexey KavokinKey Laboratory for Quantum Materials of Zhejiang Province, School of Science, Westlake University, 18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou, 310024, Zhejiang Province, China.

Funding

Council on grants of the President of the Russian Federation MK-4729.2021.1.2Russian Foundation for Basic Research 21-52-10005Westlake University 041020100118Zhejiang 2018R01002
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Abstract

We predict the spontaneous symmetry breaking in a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate of exciton-polaritons (polaritons) caused by the coupling of its spin and orbital degrees of freedom. We study a polariton condensate trapped in a ring-shaped effective potential with a broken rotational symmetry. We propose a realistic scheme of generating controllable spinor azimuthal persistent currents of polaritons in the trap under the continuous wave optical pump. We propose a new type of half-quantum circulating states in a spinor system characterized by azimuthal currents in both circular polarizations and a vortex in only one of the polarizations. The spontaneous symmetry breaking in the spinor polariton condensate that consists in the switching from co-winding to opposite-winding currents in opposite spin states is revealed. It is characterized by the change of the average orbital angular momentum of the condensate from zero to non-zero values. The radial displacement of the pump spot and the polarization of the pump act as the control parameters. The considered system exhibits a fundamental similarity to a superconducting flux qubit, which makes it highly promising for applications in quantum computing.

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