Exciton-polaritons in 2D dichalcogenide layers placed in a planar microcavity: tuneable interaction between two Bose-Einstein condensates

TL;DR

This paper theoretically explores exciton-polaritons in 2D semiconductor monolayers within microcavities, demonstrating tunable interactions between two Bose-Einstein condensates, which could advance quantum fluid research.

Contribution

It introduces a novel structure with two semiconductor sheets separated by a controllable distance, enabling tunable interactions between exciton-polariton condensates.

Findings

Calculated dispersion curves, mode lifetimes, Rabi splitting, and Hopfield coefficients for MoS2 and WS2.

Proposed a structure with tunable inter-condensate interaction via adjustable separation.

Modeled the system dynamics with coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations.

Abstract

Exciton-polariton modes arising from interaction between bound excitons in monolayer thin semiconductor sheets and photons in a Fabry-Perot microcavity are considered theoretically. We calculate the dispersion curves, mode lifetimes, Rabi splitting, and Hopfield coefficients of these structures for two nearly 2D semiconductor materials, MoS2 and WS2, and suggest that they are interesting for studying the rich physics associated with the Bose-Einstein condensation of exciton-polaritons. The large exciton binding energy and dipole allowed exciton transitions, in addition to the relatively easily controllable distance between the semiconductor sheets are the advantages of this system in comparison with traditional GaAs or CdTe based semiconductor microcavities. In particular, in order to mimic the rich physical properties of the quantum degenerate mixture of two bosonic species of dilute atomic gases with tunable inter-species interaction , we put forward a structure containing two semiconductor sheets separated by some atomic-scale distance (l) using a nearly 2D dielectric (e.g. h-BN), which offers the possibility of tuning the interaction between two exciton-polariton Bose-Enstein condensates. We show that the dynamics of this novel structure are ruled by two coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations with the coupling parameter proportional to 1/l.