Physics – Condensed Matter – Other Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2009-07-14
Nature Physics 6, 527 (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Other Condensed Matter
20 pages, 8 figures
Scientific paper
10.1038/nphys1668
Semiconductor microcavity polaritons in the optical parametric scattering regime have been recently demonstrated to display a new variety of dissipationless superfluid behaviour. We report the first observation in resonantly pumped exciton polaritons of a metastable persistent superflow carrying quantum of angular momentum, m. The quantised vortex, excited by a weak 2 ps pulsed probe, is shown to last for at least 80 ps, limited only by the leaking outside the cavity. The polariton circulating superfluid persists in the absence of the driving rotating probe with no apparent dissipation. In addition, for a moving superfluid, we show the coherent splitting of a quantised double vortex, with charge m=2, into two singly quantised vortices of m=1. Remarkably, we observe the m=2 vortex to be stable when they are at rest. The experimental results are compared with a theoretical analysis, obtained describing the triggered parametric scattering regime of polaritons via a two-component Gross-Pitaevskii equation, including pump and decay processes.
Baudisch M.
Bloch Jacqueline
Krizhanovskii D. N.
Laussy Fabrice P.
Lemaître Aristide
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