Multistability of the optical response in a system of quasi-two-dimensional exciton polaritonsстатья
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Аннотация:The nonlinear dynamic properties of a system of polaritons in a planar semiconductor microcavity under conditions of external coherent photoexcitation have been investigated. It has been shown that the interaction between polaritons with identical projections of the total angular momentum (J (z) ) can give rise to multistability of the response of the excited polariton state. As a result, nonequilibrium transitions between different stability branches become possible due to fluctuations or arbitrarily smooth variations of the excitation parameters and occur with abrupt changes in the intensity and optical polarization of the field in the microcavity. It has been demonstrated that a relatively weak attraction between polaritons with opposite total angular momenta J (z) leads to a possibility of spontaneously breaking the symmetry of circularly polarized field components in the microcavity under strictly linear (symmetric) polarization conditions of external excitation.