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- Title
Polaritons in an Electron Gas—Quasiparticles and Landau Effective Interactions.
- Authors
Bastarrachea-Magnani, Miguel Angel; Thomsen, Jannie; Camacho-Guardian, Arturo; Bruun, Georg M.
- Abstract
Two-dimensional semiconductors inside optical microcavities have emerged as a versatile platform to explore new hybrid light–matter quantum states. A strong light–matter coupling leads to the formation of exciton-polaritons, which in turn interact with the surrounding electron gas to form quasiparticles called polaron-polaritons. Here, we develop a general microscopic framework to calculate the properties of these quasiparticles, such as their energy and the interactions between them. From this, we give microscopic expressions for the parameters entering a Landau theory for the polaron-polaritons, which offers a simple yet powerful way to describe such interacting light–matter many-body systems. As an example of the application of our framework, we then use the ladder approximation to explore the properties of the polaron-polaritons. Furthermore, we show that they can be measured in a non-demolition way via the light transmission/reflection spectrum of the system. Finally, we demonstrate that the Landau effective interaction mediated by electron-hole excitations is attractive leading to red shifts of the polaron-polaritons. Our work provides a systematic framework to study exciton-polaritons in electronically doped two-dimensional materials such as novel van der Waals heterostructures.
- Subjects
LANDAU theory; QUASIPARTICLES; POLARITONS; QUANTUM states; LIGHT transmission; REDSHIFT; ELECTRON gas; SEMICONDUCTORS
- Publication
Atoms (2218-2004), 2021, Vol 9, Issue 4, p81
- ISSN
2218-2004
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/atoms9040081