Signature of the microcavity exciton-polariton relaxation mechanism in the polarization of emitted light

We have performed real and momentum space spin-dependent spectroscopy of spontaneously formed exciton polariton condensates for a non-resonant pumping scheme. Under linearly polarized pump, our results can be understood in terms of spin-dependent Boltzmann equations in a two-state model. This suggests that relaxation into the ground state occurs after multiple phonon scattering events and only one polariton-polariton scattering. For the circular pumping case, in which only excitons of one spin are injected, a bottleneck effect is observed, implying inefficient relaxation.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figure

Geotechnical Characterization of Fine-Grained Spoil Material from Surface Coal Mines

Coal mines produce large amounts of excavated waste soils, known as spoils. These materials can cover vast areas, are typically dumped in heaps without any treatment and are difficult to exploit for engineering purposes because of their significant variability. Efficient exploitation of spoil heaps poses engineering challenges, related mainly to the involved degree of uncertainty. A small number of studies have attempted to characterize the geotechnical properties of spoil material; however, there remains a considerable gap in understanding how to deal with spoil materials in the context of sustainable development and civil infrastructure design. In this work, a systematic effort is made to quantify the uncertainty of the geotechnical properties of a particular spoil heap. Laboratory test results based on an extended investigation of a spoil material originating from lignite coal mines are gathered in one database and thoroughly analyzed. The results reveal and quantify the significant spoil material variability, which is contrasted against data for common soils, while a systematic approach is proposed for spoil material characterization

Temperature and wavelength drift tolerant WDM transmission and routing in on-chip silicon photonic interconnects

We demonstrate a temperature and wavelength shift resilient silicon transmission and routing interconnect system suitable for multi-socket interconnects, utilizing a dual-strategy CLIPP feedback circuitry that safeguards the operating point of the constituent photonic building blocks along the entire on-chip transmission-multiplexing-routing chain. The control circuit leverages a novel control power-independent and calibration-free locking strategy that exploits the 2nd derivative of ring resonator modulators (RMs) transfer function to lock them close to the point of minimum transmission penalty. The system performance was evaluated on an integrated Silicon Photonics 2-socket demonstrator, enforcing control over a chain of RM-MUX-AWGR resonant structures and stressed against thermal and wavelength shift perturbations. The thermal and wavelength stress tests ranged from 27 degrees C to 36 degrees C and 1309.90 nm to 1310.85 nm and revealed average eye diagrams Q-factor values of 5.8 and 5.9 respectively, validating the system robustness to unstable environments and fabrication variations. (C) 2022 Optica Publishing Group under the terms of the Optica Open Access Publishing Agreemen

Vortices in polariton OPO superfluids

This chapter reviews the occurrence of quantised vortices in polariton fluids, primarily when polaritons are driven in the optical parametric oscillator (OPO) regime. We first review the OPO physics, together with both its analytical and numerical modelling, the latter being necessary for the description of finite size systems. Pattern formation is typical in systems driven away from equilibrium. Similarly, we find that uniform OPO solutions can be unstable to the spontaneous formation of quantised vortices. However, metastable vortices can only be injected externally into an otherwise stable symmetric state, and their persistence is due to the OPO superfluid properties. We discuss how the currents charactering an OPO play a crucial role in the occurrence and dynamics of both metastable and spontaneous vortices.Comment: 40 pages, 16 figure

Measurement of the spin temperature of optically cooled nuclei and GaAs hyperfine constants in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dots

Deep cooling of electron and nuclear spins is equivalent to achieving polarization degrees close to 100% and is a key requirement in solid state quantum information technologies. While polarization of individual nuclear spins in diamond and SiC reaches 99% and beyond, it has been limited to 60-65% for the nuclei in quantum dots. Theoretical models have attributed this limit to formation of coherent "dark" nuclear spin states but experimental verification is lacking, especially due to the poor accuracy of polarization degree measurements. Here we measure the nuclear polarization in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dots with high accuracy using a new approach enabled by manipulation of the nuclear spin states with radiofrequency pulses. Polarizations up to 80% are observed - the highest reported so far for optical cooling in quantum dots. This value is still not limited by nuclear coherence effects. Instead we find that optically cooled nuclei are well described within a classical spin temperature framework. Our findings unlock a route for further progress towards quantum dot electron spin qubits where deep cooling of the mesoscopic nuclear spin ensemble is used to achieve long qubit coherence. Moreover, GaAs hyperfine material constants are measured here experimentally for the first time

Topological order and thermal equilibrium in polariton condensates

We report the observation of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition for a 2D gas of exciton-polaritons, and through the joint measurement of the first-order coherence both in space and time we bring compelling evidence of a thermodynamic equilibrium phase transition in an otherwise open driven/dissipative system. This is made possible thanks to long polariton lifetimes in high-quality samples with small disorder and in a reservoir-free region far away from the excitation spot, that allow topological ordering to prevail. The observed quasi-ordered phase, characteristic for an equilibrium 2D bosonic gas, with a decay of coherence in both spatial and temporal domains with the same algebraic exponent, is reproduced with numerical solutions of stochastic dynamics, proving that the mechanism of pairing of the topological defects (vortices) is responsible for the transition to the algebraic order. Finally, measurements in the weak-coupling regime confirm that polariton condensates are fundamentally different from photon lasers and constitute genuine quantum degenerate macroscopic states

Amplification of nonlinear polariton pulses in waveguides

Using a sub-millimeter exciton-polariton waveguide suitable for integrated photonics, we experimentally demonstrate nonlinear modulation of pico-Joule pulses at the same time as amplification sufficient to compensate the system losses. By comparison with a numerical model we explain the observed interplay of gain and nonlinearity as amplification of the interacting polariton field by stimulated scattering from an incoherent continuous-wave reservoir that is depleted by the pulses. This combination of gain and giant ultrafast nonlinearity operating on picosecond pulses has the potential to open up new directions in low-power all-optical information processing and nonlinear photonic simulation of conservative and driven-dissipative systems

Effectiveness of the swellex rock reinforcement system in the Madem Lakkos and Olympias mines

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Automatyczne wykrywanie wtrąceń nieurabialnych podczas urabiania koparką wieloczerpakową kołową przy użyciu czujnika elektromagnetycznego (EM) i GPS

This work describes a methodology for the automatic detection of unmineable inclusions while bucket wheel excavator (BWE) digging, using electromagnetic (EM) sensor and GPS. The overall methodology consists of data collection, pre-processing and evaluation. Two different data evaluation approaches were developed and implemented in Matlab programming environment. A relatively simple one called Simple Mode, based on statistical process control and a more sophisticated one, called Advanced Mode, based on Position Prominence Index (PPI) and on Neural-Network based Pattern Recognition (NNPR). Synthetic electromagnetic data created and used (both in simple and advanced mode) for testing the algorithms extensively. Real data, surveyed by moving the EM sensor (CMD2 of GF Instruments) and GPS against a mine slope, were examined with the proposed methodology as well. Advanced Mode provided more accurate results than Simple Mode in automatic detection of unmineable inclusions. However it is sensitive in positioning accuracy and it requires access to EM data acquired in successive bucket wheel cuts.W pracy opisano metodologię automatycznego wykrywania nieurabialnych wtrąceń podczas normalnej pracy koparki wielonaczyniowej (BWE) przy użyciu czujnika elektromagnetycznego (EM) i GPS. Ogólna metodologia obejmuje gromadzenie danych, wstępne przetwarzanie oraz ocenę. Opracowano dwa różne warianty oceny danych i wdrożono je w środowisku programowania Matlab. Stosunkowo prosty, zwany Simple Mode, oparty na statystycznej kontroli procesu i bardziej zaawansowany, zwany Advanced Mode, oparty na Position Prominence Index (PPI) oraz na Neural-Network based Pattern Recognition (NNPR). Utworzono i wykorzystano syntetyczne dane elektromagnetyczne (zarówno w trybie prostym, jak i zaawansowanym) do wszechstronnego testowania algorytmów. Uzyskane w warunkach terenowych dane pochodzące z czujnika EM (CMD2 z GF Instruments) i GPS przesuwanych na skarpie zabierki, zostały również przeanalizowano przy zastosowaniu ww. metodologii. Tryb zaawansowany (Advanced Mode) zapewnia dokładniejsze wyniki niż tryb prosty (Simple Mode) w automatycznym wykrywaniu nieurabialnych inkluzji. Jest jednak wrażliwy na dokładność pozycjonowania i wymaga dostępu do danych czujnika elektromagnetycznego (EM) uzyskanych w kolejno wybieranych przez koparkę wielonaczyniową pasmach zabierki

Opracowanie systemu wnioskowania rozmytego dla uniknięcia kolizji koparki wielonaczyniowej kołowej wyposażonej w czujniki elektromagnetyczne (EM) z wtrąceniami nieurabialnymi

This study aims to the development of a Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) that will guide the operator of a Bucket Wheel Excavator (BWE) equipped with geophysical sensors to avoid collision of the excavating buckets with the hard rock formations. The developed FIS uses the probability of occurrence of a hard rock formation (estimated from the measurements of the geophysical sensor) and the operational data of the BWE to estimate the risk for collision and the diggability of the excavated material. The structural and operational characteristics of the used BWEs as well as the applied mining practices were used to modify the structure and the inference rules of the FIS and to maximize the exploitation of the existing factual and experiential knowledge.W artykule zaprezentowano wyniki badań mających na celu opracowanie Systemu Wnioskowania Rozmytego (FIS), który będzie wspomagał operatora koparki wyposażonej w czujniki geofizyczne, aby uniknąć kolizji koła czerpakowego z twardymi formacjami skalnymi. Opracowany system FIS wykorzystuje prawdopodobieństwo wystąpienia nieurabialnej skały (oszacowanego na podstawie pomiarów czujnika geofizycznego) oraz dane operacyjne koparki w celu oszacowania ryzyka kolizji i urabialności wybieranych utworów. Cechy konstrukcyjne i użytkowe używanych koparek, a także stosowane praktyki górnicze zostały wykorzystane do modyfikacji struktury i zasad wnioskowania FIS oraz maksymalizacji wykorzystania istniejącej wiedzy faktycznej i empirycznej