Friday, December 7, 2012

1212.1287 (Yaroslav V. Kartashov et al.)

Quasi-compactons and bistability in exciton-polariton condensates    [PDF]

Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Vladimir V. Konotop, Lluis Torner
We address stationary patterns in exciton-polariton condensates supported by a narrow external pump beam, and we discover that even in the absence of trapping potentials, such condensates may support stable localized stationary dissipative solutions (quasi-compactons), whose field decays faster than exponentially or even vanishes everywhere outside the pump spot. More general conditions lead to dissipative solitons which may display bistability. The bistability in exciton-polariton condensates, which manifests itself in simultaneous existence of two stable and one unstable localized solitons with different amplitudes, widths, and exciton-photon fractions under the same physical conditions, strongly depends on the width of pump beam and is found to disappear for sufficiently narrow pump beams.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1287

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