Condensation of Cavity Polaritons in a Disordered Environment

Details Condensation of Cavity Polaritons in a Disordered Environment Condensation of Cavity Polaritons in a Disordered Environment

2004-05-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0405259v2

Phys. Rev. B 70, 155327 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

17 pages, 9 eps figures; published version

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.70.155327

A model for direct two band excitons in a disordered quantum well coupled to light in a cavity is investigated. In the limit in which the exciton density is high, we assess the impact of weak `pair-breaking' disorder on the feasibility of condensation of cavity polaritons. The mean-field phase diagram shows a `lower density' region, where the condensate is dominated by electronic excitations and where disorder tends to close the condensate and quench coherence. Increasing the density of excitations in the system, partially due to the screening of Coulomb interaction, the excitations contributing to the condensate become mainly photon-like and coherence is reestablished for any value of disorder. In contrast, in the photon dominated region of the phase diagram, the energy gap of the quasi-particle spectrum still closes when the disorder strength is increased. Above mean-field, thermal, quantum and fluctuations induced by disorder are considered and the spectrum of the collective excitations is evaluated. In particular, it is shown that the angle resolved photon intensity exhibits an abrupt change in its behaviour, going from the condensed to the non-condensed region.

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