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Papers by Luis Vina

arXiv: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics, 2013

We study the dynamics of polariton condensate wave trains that propagate along a quasi one-dimens... more We study the dynamics of polariton condensate wave trains that propagate along a quasi one-dimensional waveguide. Through the application of tuneable potential barriers the propagation can be reflected and multiple reflections used to confine and store a propagating state. Energy-relaxation processes allow the delayed relaxation into a long-living coherent ground state. Aside the potential routing of polariton condensate signals, the system forms an AND-type logic gate compatible with incoherent inputs.

High-purity GaAs grown by molecular-beam epitaxy

Journal of Applied Physics, 1986

We have grown high-purity GaAs on (100), (311)A, and (311)B orientations by molecular-beam epitax... more We have grown high-purity GaAs on (100), (311)A, and (311)B orientations by molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE). While undoped GaAs grown on (100) and (311)A are typically p type, growth on (311)B orientation has yielded n type with a liquid-nitrogen electron mobility of 1.3×105 cm2 V−1 s−1, which is among the highest mobilities reported for MBE-grown materials. Low-temperature photoluminescence showed well-resolved impurity

Physical Review B, 2016

We report on the influence of disorder on an exciton-polariton condensate in a ZnO-based bulk pla... more We report on the influence of disorder on an exciton-polariton condensate in a ZnO-based bulk planar microcavity and compare experimental results with a theoretical model for a nonequilibrium condensate. Experimentally, we detect intensity fluctuations within the far-field emission pattern even at high condensate densities, which indicates a significant impact of disorder. We show that these effects rely on the driven dissipative nature of the condensate and argue that they can be accounted for by spatial phase inhomogeneities induced by disorder, which occur even for increasing condensate densities realized in the regime of high excitation power. Thus, nonequilibrium effects strongly suppress the stabilization of the condensate against disorder, contrary to what is expected for equilibrium condensates in the high-density limit. Numerical simulations based on our theoretical model reproduce the experimental data.

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Le Journal de Physique Colloques, 1987

Photoreflectance measurements have been performed on high quality GaAs/AlGaAs multiple quantum we... more Photoreflectance measurements have been performed on high quality GaAs/AlGaAs multiple quantum wells grown along the [Ill] crystallographic direction. These measurements indicate that the heavy and light hole masses are 0.8 and 0.08, respectively, in the [Ill] direction of bulk GaAs. These values are in good agreement with the Luttinger parapeters for GaAs. In addition, this investigation indicates that the band alignments of GaAs and AlGaAs are not very sensitive to crystallographic orientation.

Magnetic field effects in highly resolved two-dimensional excitons

Surface Science, 1990

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Superlattices and Microstructures, 1987

Solid State Communications, 2001

We have studied polariton spin dynamics in a GaAs/AlGaAs microcavity by means of polarization-and... more We have studied polariton spin dynamics in a GaAs/AlGaAs microcavity by means of polarization-and time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy as a function of excitation density and normal mode splitting. The experiments reveal a novel behavior of the degree of polarization of the emission, namely the existence of a finite delay to reach its maximum value. We have also found that the stimulated emission of the lower polariton branch has a strong influence on spin dynamics: in an interval of ∼150 ps the polarization changes from +100% to negative values as high as-60%. This strong modulation of the polarization and its high speed may open new possibilities for spin-based devices.

Semiconductor Science and Technology, 2000

We have investigated the influence of the electronic band structure on the exciton dynamics in Ga... more We have investigated the influence of the electronic band structure on the exciton dynamics in GaAsP tensile-strained quantum wells. We have found that the exciton cooling time is notably reduced when the heavy-and light-hole excitons are degenerate. The lifetime of the heavy-hole exciton is ∼300 ps whereas it is ∼500 ps for the light-hole exciton. Furthermore, we have determined, from the initial degree of polarization of the emission, the valence-band mixing as a function of the energy splitting between the heavy-hole and light-hole subbands. The degree of mixing is in qualitative agreement with tight-binding calculations.

Acta Physica Polonica A, 2004

We present a time-resolved study of the light emission of a CdTe-based microcavity. In the nonlin... more We present a time-resolved study of the light emission of a CdTe-based microcavity. In the nonlinear regime, under high excitation conditions, in the strong coupling regime, we observe pronounced beats of the intensity of the photoluminescence arising from the bottleneck region of the excitonpolariton band. These beats are very sensitive to the excitation density and vanish under weak pumping conditions. We attribute the beats to a new nonlinear coupling mechanism of optically active and dark crystal states, related to polariton-polariton scattering, which leads to mixing between bright and dark states.

Physical Review B, 1996

We develop a theory to calculate exciton binding energies of both two-and three-dimensional spin ... more We develop a theory to calculate exciton binding energies of both two-and three-dimensional spin polarized exciton gases within a mean field approach. Our method allows the analysis of recent experiments showing the importance of the polarization and intensity of the excitation light on the exciton luminescence of GaAs quantum wells. We study the breaking of the spin degeneracy observed at high exciton density (5 10 10 cm 2). Energy level splitting betwen spin +1 and spin-1 is shown to be due to many-body inter-excitonic exchange while the spin relaxation time is controlled by intra-exciton exchange.

Physical Review Letters, 2009

Physical Review Letters, 2007

In this Letter we demonstrate Mie resonances mediated transport of light in randomly arranged, mo... more In this Letter we demonstrate Mie resonances mediated transport of light in randomly arranged, monodisperse dielectric spheres packed at high filling fractions. By means of both static and dynamic optical experiments we show resonant behavior in the key transport parameters and, in particular, we find that the energy transport velocity, which is lower than the group velocity, also displays a resonant behavior.

Physical Review B, 2008

We report on time-resolved photoluminescence from semiconductor microcavities showing that an opt... more We report on time-resolved photoluminescence from semiconductor microcavities showing that an optically controllable mechanism exists to turn on and off memory effects in a polariton system. By increasing the laser pumping pulse intensity we observe revivals of the decaying time-resolved photoluminescence signal, a manifestly non-Markovian behavior of the optically active polaritons. Based on an open quantum system approach we perform a comprehensive analytical and numerical study of the coupling of optically active polaritons to a structured reservoir to confirm the origin of the observed features. Our findings show that negative detunings and strong excitation should occur simultaneously for memory effects to take place.

Applied Physics Letters, 2007

The dependence on the polariton spin orientation of the transition from the strong-to the weak-co... more The dependence on the polariton spin orientation of the transition from the strong-to the weak-coupling regime in InGaAs semiconductor microcavities is experimentally studied by means of time-resolved photoluminescence. Polaritons are nonresonantly excited by circularly polarized pulses and the photoluminescence of the K ʈ ϳ 0 states is analyzed into its co-and cross-polarized components. The loss of strong coupling with increasing excitation intensity takes place at different powers for polaritons with opposite spin orientation and it is determined by the polariton population of each spin.

Semiconductor Science and Technology, 2010

Time resolved photoluminescence is a powerful technique to study the collective dynamics of excit... more Time resolved photoluminescence is a powerful technique to study the collective dynamics of excitons and polaritons in semiconductor nanostructures. We present a two excitation pulses technique to induce the ultrafast and controlled quenching of the exciton emission in a quantum well. The depth of the dip is given by the magnitude of the warming of the carriers induced by the arrival of a laser pulse when an exciton population is already present in the sample. We use this technique to study the relaxation mechanisms of polaritons in semiconductor microcavities, which are of great importance to enhance the conditions for their condensation under non-resonant excitation. We also explore the dynamics of polariton fluids resonantly created in the lower polariton branch in a triggered optical parametric oscillator configuration, showing evidence of polariton superfluidity, and opening up the way to the real-time study of quantum fluids.

We report on novel exciton-polariton routing devices created to study and purposely guide light-m... more We report on novel exciton-polariton routing devices created to study and purposely guide light-matter particles in their condensate phase. In a co-directional coupling device, two waveguides are connected by a partially etched section which facilitates tunable coupling of the adjacent channels. This evanescent coupling of the two macroscopic wavefunctions in each waveguide reveals itself in real space oscillations of the condensate. This Josephson-like oscillation has only been observed in coupled polariton traps so far. Here, we report on a similar coupling behavior in a controllable, propagative waveguide-based design. By designing the gap width and channel length, the exit port of the polariton flow can be chosen. This co-directional polariton device is a passive and scalable coupler element that can serve in compact, next generation logic architectures.

We present a time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) study in real- and momentum-space of a polarito... more We present a time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) study in real- and momentum-space of a polariton condensate switch in a quasi-1D semiconductor microcavity. The polariton flow across the ridge is gated by excitons inducing a barrier potential due to repulsive interactions. A study of the device operation dependence on the power of the pulsed gate beam obtains a satisfactory compromise for the ON/OFF-signal ratio and -switching time of the order of 0.3 and 50 ps, respectively. The opposite transition is governed by the long-lived gate excitons, consequently the OFF/ON-switching time is 200 ps, limiting the overall operation speed of the device to 3 GHz. The experimental results are compared to numerical simulations based on a generalized Gross-Pitaevskii equation, taking into account incoherent pumping, decay and energy relaxation within the condensate.

We review some of the newest findings on the spin dynamics of carriers and excitons in GaAs/GaAlA... more We review some of the newest findings on the spin dynamics of carriers and excitons in GaAs/GaAlAs quantum wells. In intrinsic wells, where the optical properties are dominated by excitonic effects, we show that exciton-exciton interaction produces a breaking of the spin degeneracy in two-dimensional semiconductors. In doped wells, the two spin components of an optically created two-dimensional electron gas are well described by Fermi-Dirac distributions with a common temperature but different chemical potentials. The rate of the spin depolarization of the electron gas is found to be independent of the mean electron kinetic energy but accelerated by thermal spreading of the carriers.

We show that the use of momentum-space optical interferometry, which avoids any spatial overlap b... more We show that the use of momentum-space optical interferometry, which avoids any spatial overlap between two parts of a macroscopic quantum state, presents a unique way to study coherence phenomena in polariton condensates. In this way, we address the longstanding question in quantum mechanics: "Do two components of a condensate, which have never seen each other, possess a definitive phase?" [P. W. Anderson, Basic Notions of Condensed Matter Physics (Benjamin, 1984)]. A positive answer to this question is experimentally obtained here for light-matter condensates, created under precise symmetry conditions, in semiconductor microcavities taking advantage of the direct relation between the angle of emission and the in-plane momentum of polaritons.