{
  "id": "1007.3592",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2010-07-21T09:26:24.000Z",
  "updated": "2010-07-21T09:26:24.000Z",
  "title": "Polarization bistability and resultant spin rings in semiconductor microcavities",
  "authors": [
    "D. Sarkar",
    "S. S. Gavrilov",
    "M. Sich",
    "J. H. Quilter",
    "R. A. Bradley",
    "N. A. Gippius",
    "K. Guda",
    "V. D. Kulakovskii",
    "M. S. Skolnick",
    "D. N. Krizhanovskii"
  ],
  "comment": "5 pages, 3 figures",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "The transmission of a pump laser resonant with the lower polariton branch of a semiconductor microcavity is shown to be highly dependent on the degree of circular polarization of the pump. Spin dependent anisotropy of polariton-polariton interactions allows the internal polarization to be controlled by varying the pump power. The formation of spatial patterns, spin rings with high degree of circular polarization, arising as a result of polarization bistability, is observed. A phenomenological model based on spin dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equations provides a good description of the experimental results. Inclusion of interactions with the incoherent exciton reservoir, which provides spin-independent blueshifts of the polariton modes, is found to be essential.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2010-07-21T09:26:24.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "71.36.+c",
      "42.55.Sa",
      "42.65.Pc"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "resultant spin rings",
      "polarization bistability",
      "semiconductor microcavity",
      "circular polarization",
      "spin dependent gross-pitaevskii equations"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.216402",
      "journal": "Physical Review Letters",
      "year": 2010,
      "month": "Nov",
      "volume": 105,
      "number": 21,
      "pages": 216402
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 5,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2010PhRvL.105u6402S"
    }
  }
}