Physical Review B

Coherent dynamics and parametric instabilities of microcavity polaritons in double-well systems

Davide Sarchi, Iacopo Carusotto, Michiel Wouters, Vincenzo Savona

Published Mar 19, 2008• 134 citations

Abstract

We investigate the physics of coherent polaritons in a double-well configuration under a resonant pumping. For a continuous-wave pump, bistability and self-pulsing regimes are identified as a function of the pump energy and intensity. The response to an additional probe pulse is characterized in the different cases and related to the Bogoliubov modes around the stationary state. Under a pulsed pump, a crossover from Josephson-like oscillations to self-trapping is predicted for increasing pump intensity. The accurateness of the effective two-mode model is assessed by comparing its predictions to a full solution of the nonequilibrium Gross--Pitaevskii equation.

DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.77.125324

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