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Mikhail Misko1, Natalia Starkova1, Pavlos G Lagoudakis1
1Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Hybrid Photonics Laboratory, Territory of Innovation Center Skolkovo, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, building 1, 121205 Moscow, Russia.
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Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) scaling has been observed in discrete polariton lattices, enabled by engineered band structures that stabilize the condensate. Whether this universality extends to intrinsically continuous systems with natural noise regularization remains an open question. We propose and numerically demonstrate KPZ scaling in a continuous quasi-one-dimensional polariton condensate stabilized by optical confinement in the transversal direction. Large-scale simulations of the stochastic Gross-Pitaevskii equation, with experimentally relevant parameters, reveal temporal and spatial scaling exponents of the two-point phase correlation function, β_{C}≈0.30(5) and α_{C}≈0.46(8), and Tracy-Widom one-point phase fluctuation statistics, yielding robust KPZ dynamics intrinsic to the continuous polariton fluid.
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