Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences Physics
Effects of polariton-polariton scattering and the nonlinear properties of polaritonic crystal
Evgeny S. Sedov, A. P. Alodjants, Sergei M Arakelyan, Y. Y. Lin, R. -K. Lee
Abstract
The coherent and nonlinear properties of a polaritonic crystal (PolC), formed by trapped two-level atoms in an optical cavity array and interacting with an optical field, are analyzed. The nonlinear Schrödinger equation is considered for the dynamics of coupled atom-light states and low-branch polaritons associated with PolCs in the continuous medium limit. The existence of a stable ground-state PolC wave function is predicted using the variational approach. For negative scattering lengths, the wave function collapses in the presence of small quintic nonlinearity.