Collective coherence in planar semiconductor microcavities

2007/02/07 by Jonathan Keeling, J. Keeling, F. M. Marchetti +3 · 7 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Strong Light-Matter Interactions #cond-mat.str-el

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0268-1242/22/5/r01

published as Semicond. Sci. Technol. 22 R1-R26 (2007) · 46 pages, 12 figures

arxiv created 2007/02/07 · openalex publication_date 2007/04/23 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

Semiconductor microcavities, in which strong coupling of excitons to confined photon modes leads to the formation of exciton–polariton modes, have increasingly become a focus for the study of spontaneous coherence, lasing and condensation in solid state systems. This review discusses the significant experimental progress to date, the phenomena associated with coherence which have been observed and also discusses in some detail the different theoretical models that have been used to study such systems. We consider both the case of non-resonant pumping, in which coherence may spontaneously arise, and the related topics of resonant pumping, and the optical parametric oscillator.

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• Quantum dynamics in the thermodynamic limit
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