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Interaction-enhanced flow of a polariton persistent current in a ring
We study the quantum hydrodynamical features of exciton-polaritons flowing
circularly in a ring-shaped geometry. We consider a resonant-excitation scheme
in which the spinor polariton fluid is set into motion in both components by
spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion. We show that this scheme allows to
control the winding number of the fluid, and to create two circulating states
differing by two units of the angular momentum. We then consider the effect of
a disorder potential, which is always present in realistic nanostructures. We
show that a smooth disorder is efficiently screened by the polariton-polariton
interactions, yielding a signature of polariton superfluidity. This effect is
reminiscent of supercurrent in a superconducting loop.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
Fragmented condensation in Bose-Hubbard trimers with tunable tunnelling
We consider a Bose-Hubbard trimer, i.e. an ultracold Bose gas populating
three quantum states. The latter can be either different sites of a triple-well
potential or three internal states of the atoms. The bosons can tunnel between
different states with variable tunnelling strength between two of them. This
will allow us to study; i) different geometrical configurations, i.e. from a
closed triangle to three aligned wells and ii) a triangular configuration with
a -phase, i.e. by setting one of the tunnellings negative. By solving the
corresponding three-site Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian we obtain the ground state of
the system as a function of the trap topology. We characterise the different
ground states by means of the coherence and entanglement properties. For small
repulsive interactions, fragmented condensates are found for the -phase
case. These are found to be robust against small variations of the tunnelling
in the small interaction regime. A low-energy effective many-body Hamiltonian
restricted to the degenerate manifold provides a compelling description of the
-phase degeneration and explains the low-energy spectrum as excitations of
discrete semifluxon states
Interaction-enhanced flow of a polariton superfluid current in a ring
We study the quantum hydrodynamical features of exciton polaritons flowing circularly in a ring-shaped geometry. We consider a resonant-excitation scheme in which the spinor polariton fluid is set into motion in both components by spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion. We show that this scheme allows us to control the winding number of the fluid and to create two circulating states differing by two units of the angular momentum. We then consider the effect of a disorder potential, which is always present in realistic nanostructures. We discuss how a smooth disorder can be efficiently screened by the polariton-polariton interactions, yielding a signature of polariton superfluidity. This effect is reminiscent of supercurrent in a superconducting loo