Speaker
Na Young Kim
(University of Waterloo)
Description
Microcavity exciton-polaritons are hybrid quantum quasi-particles as an admixture of cavity photons
and quantum well excitons. The inherent light-matter duality provides experimental advantages to form
coherent condensates at high temperatures (e.g. 4 K in GaAs and room temperature in GaN materials) and
to access the dynamics of exciton-polaritons. I present engineered exciton-polariton-lattice systems,
where we seek the beauty of non-zero momentum boson order arising from the intrinsic open-dissipative
nature of the condensate as well as the topology of lattices. I envision that the dynamical polariton-lattice
systems will be an intellectual interface, where we may address wondrous quantum many-body problems
in the light-matter domain.
Primary author
Na Young Kim
(University of Waterloo)
