Abstract
Cavity exciton-polaritons are the quasiparticles formed of photons and excitons strongly coupled in microcavities. They have recently become a very convenient model system for the Bose-Einstein condensation in 2D and 1D systems as well as various related effects such as superfluidity, vortices or oblique solitons. Polaritons are bosons with only two possible spin projections on the growth axis of the sample which allows a two-component spinor condensate to form. In this chapter we will explain how one can capitalize on the unique properties of a flowing spinor exciton-polariton Bose-Einstein condensate. In the first part we will describe how the controlled generation of new types of half-integer excitations: oblique half-solitons can be achieved. In the second part, we will show that the convenience to create event horizons and thus black hole analogues in the spinor system will lead us to the modeling of wormholes.
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Flayac, H., Solnyshkov, D.D., Malpuech, G. (2013). Spin Effects in Polariton Condensates: From Half-Solitons to Analogues of Wormholes. In: Bramati, A., Modugno, M. (eds) Physics of Quantum Fluids. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 177. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37569-9_5
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