Tunneling-assisted optical information storage with lattice polariton solitons in cavity-QED arrays
Evgeny S. Sedov, A. P. Alodjants, Sergei M Arakelyan +4 more
Considering two-level media in the array of weakly coupled nanocavities, we reveal a variety of dynamical regimes, such as diffusion, self-trapping, soliton, and breathers for the wave packets in the presence of photon tunneling processes between the next-nearest cavities. We focus our attention on the low-branch bright polariton soliton formation, due to the two-body polariton-polariton scattering processes. When detuning frequency is manipulated adiabatically, the low-branch lattice polariton localized states, i.e., solitons and breathers evolving between photonlike and matterlike states, are shown to act as carriers for spatially distributed storage and retrieval of optical information.
arXiv:1312.2536•Physical Review A•Mar 14, 2014•24 citations