@article{LundtKlembtCherotchenkoetal.2016, author = {Lundt, Nils and Klembt, Sebastian and Cherotchenko, Evgeniia and Betzold, Simon and Iff, Oliver and Nalitov, Anton V. and Klaas, Martin and Dietrich, Christof P. and Kavokin, Alexey V. and H{\"o}fling, Sven and Schneider, Christian}, title = {Room-temperature Tamm-plasmon exciton-polaritons with a WSe\(_{2}\) monolayer}, series = {Nature Communications}, volume = {7}, journal = {Nature Communications}, doi = {10.1038/ncomms13328}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-169470}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Solid-state cavity quantum electrodynamics is a rapidly advancing field, which explores the frontiers of light-matter coupling. Metal-based approaches are of particular interest in this field, as they carry the potential to squeeze optical modes to spaces significantly below the diffraction limit. Transition metal dichalcogenides are ideally suited as the active material in cavity quantum electrodynamics, as they interact strongly with light at the ultimate monolayer limit. Here, we implement a Tamm-plasmon-polariton structure and study the coupling to a monolayer of WSe\(_{2}\), hosting highly stable excitons. Exciton-polariton formation at room temperature is manifested in the characteristic energy-momentum dispersion relation studied in photoluminescence, featuring an anti-crossing between the exciton and photon modes with a Rabi-splitting of 23.5 meV. Creating polaritonic quasiparticles in monolithic, compact architectures with atomic monolayers under ambient conditions is a crucial step towards the exploration of nonlinearities, macroscopic coherence and advanced spinor physics with novel, low-mass bosons.}, language = {en} } @article{KochereshkoDurnevBesombesetal.2016, author = {Kochereshko, Vladimir P. and Durnev, Mikhail V. and Besombes, Lucien and Mariette, Henri and Sapega, Victor F. and Askitopoulos, Alexis and Savenko, Ivan G. and Liew, Timothy C. H. and Shelykh, Ivan A. and Platonov, Alexey V. and Tsintzos, Simeon I. and Hatzopoulos, Z. and Savvidis, Pavlos G. and Kalevich, Vladimir K. and Afanasiev, Mikhail M. and Lukoshkin, Vladimir A. and Schneider, Christian and Amthor, Matthias and Metzger, Christian and Kamp, Martin and Hoefling, Sven and Lagoudakis, Pavlos and Kavokin, Alexey}, title = {Lasing in Bose-Fermi mixtures}, series = {Scientific Reports}, volume = {6}, journal = {Scientific Reports}, number = {20091}, doi = {10.1038/srep20091}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-168152}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, well-known for revolutionising photonic science, has been realised primarily in fermionic systems including widely applied diode lasers. The prerequisite for fermionic lasing is the inversion of electronic population, which governs the lasing threshold. More recently, bosonic lasers have also been developed based on Bose-Einstein condensates of exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities. These electrically neutral bosons coexist with charged electrons and holes. In the presence of magnetic fields, the charged particles are bound to their cyclotron orbits, while the neutral exciton-polaritons move freely. We demonstrate how magnetic fields affect dramatically the phase diagram of mixed Bose-Fermi systems, switching between fermionic lasing, incoherent emission and bosonic lasing regimes in planar and pillar microcavities with optical and electrical pumping. We collected and analyzed the data taken on pillar and planar microcavity structures at continuous wave and pulsed optical excitation as well as injecting electrons and holes electronically. Our results evidence the transition from a Bose gas to a Fermi liquid mediated by magnetic fields and light-matter coupling.}, language = {en} } @article{WurdackLundtKlaasetal.2017, author = {Wurdack, Matthias and Lundt, Nils and Klaas, Martin and Baumann, Vasilij and Kavokin, Alexey V. and H{\"o}fling, Sven and Schneider, Christian}, title = {Observation of hybrid Tamm-plasmon exciton-polaritons with GaAs quantum wells and a MoSe\(_{2}\) monolayer}, series = {Nature Communications}, volume = {8}, journal = {Nature Communications}, number = {259}, doi = {10.1038/s41467-017-00155-w}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-170480}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Strong light matter coupling between excitons and microcavity photons, as described in the framework of cavity quantum electrodynamics, leads to the hybridization of light and matter excitations. The regime of collective strong coupling arises, when various excitations from different host media are strongly coupled to the same optical resonance. This leads to a well-controllable admixture of various matter components in three hybrid polariton modes. Here, we study a cavity device with four embedded GaAs quantum wells hosting excitons that are spectrally matched to the A-valley exciton resonance of a MoSe\(_{2}\) monolayer. The formation of hybrid polariton modes is evidenced in momentum resolved photoluminescence and reflectivity studies. We describe the energy and k-vector distribution of exciton-polaritons along the hybrid modes by a thermodynamic model, which yields a very good agreement with the experiment.}, language = {en} }