Engineering spatial coherence in lattices of polariton condensates

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates engineering of polariton condensate lattices with enhanced spatial coherence, enabling larger coherent structures and providing insights into how lattice geometry influences spatial correlations.

Contribution

The authors develop methods to actively control the spatial arrangement and density of polariton condensate lattices, achieving near-diffraction limited emission and significantly increased spatial coherence.

Findings

Spatial coherence exceeds the size of individual condensates by nearly two orders of magnitude.

Spatial correlations depend on the lattice geometry.

Achieved near-diffraction limited emission in polariton lattices.

Abstract

Artificial lattices of coherently coupled macroscopic states are at the heart of applications ranging from solving hard combinatorial optimisation problems to simulating complex many-body physical systems. The size and complexity of the problems scales with the extent of coherence across the lattice. Although the fundamental limit of spatial coherence depends on the nature of the couplings and lattice parameters, it is usually engineering constrains that define the size of the system. Here, we engineer polariton condensate lattices with active control on the spatial arrangement and condensate density that result in near-diffraction limited emission, and spatial coherence that exceeds by nearly two orders of magnitude the size of each individual condensate. We utilise these advancements to unravel the dependence of spatial correlations between polariton condensates on the lattice geometry.