# Time-Delay Polaritonics

## TL;DR

This paper explores a new regime of polariton condensates acting as non-linear oscillators with time-delayed interactions, enabling control over their dynamics and potential for extended configurations.

## Contribution

It demonstrates the use of microcavity exciton-polariton condensates as macroscopic, optically controllable non-linear oscillators with time-delayed coupling, modeled by equations similar to the Lang-Kobayashi equation.

## Key findings

- Demonstrated macroscopic polariton condensates as non-linear oscillators
- Achieved deterministic tuning between fixed point and limit cycle regimes
- Modeled the system with time-delayed coupled equations similar to Lang-Kobayashi

## Abstract

Non-linearity and finite signal propagation speeds are omnipresent in nature, technologies, and real-world problems, where efficient ways of describing and predicting the effects of these elements are in high demand. Advances in engineering condensed matter systems, such as lattices of trapped condensates, have enabled studies on non-linear effects in many-body systems where exchange of particles between lattice nodes is effectively instantaneous. Here, we demonstrate a regime of macroscopic matter-wave systems, in which ballistically expanding condensates of microcavity exciton-polaritons act as picosecond, microscale non-linear oscillators subject to time-delayed interaction. The ease of optical control and readout of polariton condensates enables us to explore the phase space of two interacting condensates up to macroscopic distances highlighting its potential in extended configurations. We demonstrate deterministic tuning of the coupled-condensate system between fixed point and limit cycle regimes, which is fully reproduced by time-delayed coupled equations of motion similar to the Lang-Kobayashi equation.