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Polaritonic Feshbach resonance

Takemura, Naotomo  
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Trebaol, Stéphane  
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Wouters, Michiel
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2014
Nature Physics

A Feshbach resonance occurs when the energy of two interacting free particles comes into resonance with a molecular bound state. When approaching this resonance, marked changes in the interaction strength between the particles can arise. Feshbach resonances provide a powerful tool for controlling the interactions in ultracold atomic gases, which can be switched from repulsive to attractive and have allowed a range of many-body quantum physics effects to be explored. Here we demonstrate a Feshbach resonance based on the polariton spinor interactions in a semiconductor microcavity. By tuning the energy of two polaritons with anti-parallel spins across the biexciton bound state energy, we show an enhancement of attractive interactions and a prompt change to repulsive interactions. A mean-field two-channel model quantitatively reproduces the experimental results. This observation paves the way for a new tool for tuning polariton interactions and to move forward into quantum correlated polariton physics.

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research article
DOI
10.1038/nphys2999
Web of Science ID

WOS:000338843100016

Author(s)
Takemura, Naotomo  
Trebaol, Stéphane  
Wouters, Michiel
Portella Oberli, Marcia  
Deveaud, Benoît  
Date Issued

2014

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group

Published in
Nature Physics
Volume

10

Start page

500

End page

504

Subjects

Feshbach Resonance

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Polariton

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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July 17, 2014
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/105109
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