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Anderson localisation in steady states of microcavity polaritons
Thomas J Sturges1, Mitchell D Anderson2,3, Adam Buraczewski4
1Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Warsaw, ul. Pasteura 5, 02-093, Warsaw, Poland. thomas.sturges@fuw.edu.pl.
Abstract:
We present an experimental signature of the Anderson localisation of microcavity polaritons, and provide a systematic study of the dependence on disorder strength. We reveal a controllable degree of localisation, as characterised by the inverse-participation ratio, by tuning the positional disorder of arrays of interacting mesas. This constitutes the realisation of disorder-induced localisation in a driven-dissipative system. In addition to being an ideal candidate for investigating localisation in this regime, microcavity polaritons hold promise for low-power, ultra-small devices and their localisation could be used as a resource in quantum memory and quantum information processing.
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