Identifying Exceptional Points in Two-Dimensional Excitons Coupled to an Open Optical Cavity

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Main Authors: Johns, Ben, Yadav, Nitin, Vinod, Anand, Kaur, Kuljeet, George, Jino
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Published: 2025
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author Johns, Ben
Yadav, Nitin
Vinod, Anand
Kaur, Kuljeet
George, Jino
author_facet Johns, Ben
Yadav, Nitin
Vinod, Anand
Kaur, Kuljeet
George, Jino
contents Strong coupling in the conventional sense requires that the Rabi cycling process between two interacting states is faster than other dissipation rates. Some recent experimental findings show intriguing properties that were attributed to polaritonic states (e.g., plexcitons) even though the above criterion is not satisfied. Here, we theoretically predict and provide experimental evidence of polariton-like behavior in a system that does not show Rabi splitting. The photoluminescence of an exciton-cavity system consisting of a two-dimensional exciton monolayer (tungsten disulfide, WS2) coupled to a planar, open, one-mirror optical cavity configuration is studied. We experimentally observed a transition from the weak coupling regime crossing an exceptional point to form polariton-like states by varying the coupling strength and the cavity loss. Our observations are fully in agreement with a theoretical quasi-normal mode analysis, which predicts this transition and confirms the presence of exceptional points in the system. These results provide evidence that polaritonic effects can be experimentally observed even when the conventional strong coupling condition is not satisfied.
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spellingShingle Identifying Exceptional Points in Two-Dimensional Excitons Coupled to an Open Optical Cavity
Johns, Ben
Yadav, Nitin
Vinod, Anand
Kaur, Kuljeet
George, Jino
Materials Science
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Strong coupling in the conventional sense requires that the Rabi cycling process between two interacting states is faster than other dissipation rates. Some recent experimental findings show intriguing properties that were attributed to polaritonic states (e.g., plexcitons) even though the above criterion is not satisfied. Here, we theoretically predict and provide experimental evidence of polariton-like behavior in a system that does not show Rabi splitting. The photoluminescence of an exciton-cavity system consisting of a two-dimensional exciton monolayer (tungsten disulfide, WS2) coupled to a planar, open, one-mirror optical cavity configuration is studied. We experimentally observed a transition from the weak coupling regime crossing an exceptional point to form polariton-like states by varying the coupling strength and the cavity loss. Our observations are fully in agreement with a theoretical quasi-normal mode analysis, which predicts this transition and confirms the presence of exceptional points in the system. These results provide evidence that polaritonic effects can be experimentally observed even when the conventional strong coupling condition is not satisfied.
title Identifying Exceptional Points in Two-Dimensional Excitons Coupled to an Open Optical Cavity
topic Materials Science
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05493