Nonlocal Coherent Optical Nonlinearities of a Macroscopic Quantum System

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Main Authors: Liu, Albert, Martin, Eric W., Hu, Jiaqi, Wang, Zhaorong, Deng, Hui, Cundiff, Steven T.
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Published: 2025
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author Liu, Albert
Martin, Eric W.
Hu, Jiaqi
Wang, Zhaorong
Deng, Hui
Cundiff, Steven T.
author_facet Liu, Albert
Martin, Eric W.
Hu, Jiaqi
Wang, Zhaorong
Deng, Hui
Cundiff, Steven T.
contents The optical responses of solids are typically understood to be local in space. Whether locality holds for the optical response of a macroscopic quantum system has, however, been largely unexplored. Here, we use multidimensional coherent spectroscopy at the optical diffraction limit to demonstrate nonlocal optical nonlinearities in a semiconductor microcavity. These nonlocal optical responses are both coherent and quantum in nature, deriving from the macroscopic length scale of confined exciton-polariton wavefunctions.
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spellingShingle Nonlocal Coherent Optical Nonlinearities of a Macroscopic Quantum System
Liu, Albert
Martin, Eric W.
Hu, Jiaqi
Wang, Zhaorong
Deng, Hui
Cundiff, Steven T.
Optics
Quantum Physics
The optical responses of solids are typically understood to be local in space. Whether locality holds for the optical response of a macroscopic quantum system has, however, been largely unexplored. Here, we use multidimensional coherent spectroscopy at the optical diffraction limit to demonstrate nonlocal optical nonlinearities in a semiconductor microcavity. These nonlocal optical responses are both coherent and quantum in nature, deriving from the macroscopic length scale of confined exciton-polariton wavefunctions.
title Nonlocal Coherent Optical Nonlinearities of a Macroscopic Quantum System
topic Optics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13830