{
  "id": "0705.3189",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2007-05-22T15:17:14.000Z",
  "updated": "2007-05-22T15:17:14.000Z",
  "title": "Polariton-polariton scattering: exact results through a novel approach",
  "authors": [
    "M. Combescot",
    "M. -A. Dupertuis",
    "O. Betbeder-Matibet"
  ],
  "comment": "To be published in Europhysics Letters",
  "doi": "10.1209/0295-5075/79/17001",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "We present a fully microscopic approach to the transition rate of two exciton-photon polaritons. The non-trivial consequences of the polariton composite nature -- here treated exactly through a development of our composite-exciton many-body theory -- lead to results noticeably different from the ones of the conventional approaches in which polaritons are mapped into elementary bosons. Our work reveals an appealing fundamental scattering which corresponds to a photon-assisted exchange -- in the absence of Coulomb process. This scattering being dominant when one of the scattered polaritons has a strong photon character, it should be directly accessible to experiment. In the case of microcavity polaritons, it produces a significant enhancement of the polariton transition rate when compared to the one coming from Coulomb interaction. This paper also contains the crucial tools to securely tackle the many-body physics of polaritons, in particular towards its possible BEC.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2007-05-22T15:17:14.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "exact results",
      "novel approach",
      "polariton-polariton scattering",
      "composite-exciton many-body theory",
      "polariton composite nature"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "journal": "EPL (Europhysics Letters)",
      "year": 2007,
      "month": "Jul",
      "volume": 79,
      "number": 1,
      "pages": 17001
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2007EL.....7917001C"
    }
  }
}