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Hyperbolic Metamaterials with Bragg Polaritons
Evgeny S Sedov1,2, I V Iorsh2, S M Arakelian1
1Department of Physics and Applied Mathematics, Vladimir State University named after A. G. and N. G. Stoletovs, Gorky street 87, 600000 Vladimir, Russia.
Abstract:
We propose a novel mechanism for designing quantum hyperbolic metamaterials with the use of semiconductor Bragg mirrors containing periodically arranged quantum wells. The hyperbolic dispersion of exciton-polariton modes is realized near the top of the first allowed photonic miniband in such a structure which leads to the formation of exciton-polariton X waves. Exciton-light coupling provides a resonant nonlinearity which leads to nontrivial topologic solutions. We predict the formation of low amplitude spatially localized oscillatory structures: oscillons described by kink shaped solutions of the effective Ginzburg-Landau-Higgs equation. The oscillons have direct analogies in gravitational theory. We discuss implementation of exciton-polariton Higgs fields for the Schrödinger cat state generation.
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