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Main Authors: Schnüriger, Gian-Marco, Kroner, Martin, Togan, Emre, Knüppel, Patrick, Delteil, Aymeric, Fält, Stefan, Wegscheider, Werner, Imamoglu, Atac
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23002
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  • Cavity exciton--polaritons are quasiparticles that form when quantum well excitons hybridize with a cavity mode. Here, we carry out photon correlation measurements under continuous wave resonant laser excitation to demonstrate quantum correlations between cavity--polaritons. Our experiments reveal an unexpectedly strong dependence of polariton interactions on cavity--exciton detuning. When the polaritons are predominantly exciton-like, we observe a transition from photon antibunching to bunching as the laser is tuned across the polariton resonance, in agreement with a simple Kerr-nonlinearity model. When the lower-branch polariton energy is tuned to induce a two-polariton Feshbach resonance with the biexciton mode, the degree of polariton antibunching becomes independent of the laser detuning: we explain our finding by invoking a dissipative blockade mechanism arising from large biexciton broadening. Our experiments demonstrate that the strong polariton blockade regime would be achieved by reducing the polariton decay rate by a factor of 10.