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Article Dans Une Revue EPL - Europhysics Letters Année : 2007

Polariton-polariton scattering: Exact results through a novel approach

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We present a fully microscopic approach to the transition rate of two exciton-photon polaritons. The non-trivial consequences of the polariton composite nature-here treated exactly through a development of our composite-exciton many-body theory-lead to results noticeably different from the ones of the conventional approaches in which polaritons are mapped into elementary bosons. Our work reveals an appealing fundamental scattering which corresponds to a photon-assisted exchange -in the absence of Coulomb process. This scattering being dominant when one of the scattered polaritons has a strong photon character, it should be directly accessible to experiment. In the case of microcavity polaritons, it produces a significant enhancement of the polariton transition rate when compared to the one coming from Coulomb interaction. This paper also contains the crucial tools to securely tackle the many-body physics of polaritons, in particular towards its possible BEC. Copyright (c) EPLA, 2007.

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hal-01284369 , version 1 (07-03-2016)

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M. Combescot, M. A. Dupertuis, O. Betbeder-Matibet. Polariton-polariton scattering: Exact results through a novel approach. EPL - Europhysics Letters, 2007, 79 (1), pp.17001. ⟨10.1209/0295-5075/79/17001⟩. ⟨hal-01284369⟩
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