Our warm welcome to our former visiting Masters student Matthias Wurdack, who is re-joining our group as a PhD student!

Chirality of a single surviving mode of an exciton-polariton resonator driven to an exceptional point was demonstrated in our recent experimental and theoretical work. The research appeared in Physical Review Letters 120, 065301 (2018). The image below shows (a) the shape of the optically-induced resonator and (b) a chiral (vortex) mode.

The group warmly welcomes Maciej Pieczarka from from Wrocław University of Science and Technology in Poland. He is visiting our lab until mid-September, and is planning to do some really exciting experiments during this time.

Congratulations to Eli Estrecho on winning the 1st “Gold” award (500 EUR) for the best poster presentation entitled “Single-shot imaging of exciton-polariton condensates” at PLMCN18 conference (9-14 July 2017, Wuerzburg, Germany).

Warmest welcome to our new group member Maryam Boozarjmehr, who has officially started her experimental PhD project with us last week.

We are also pleased to congratulate our first PhD graduate Dr. Guangyao Li on commencing his postdoctoral research at University of Southampton, in the group of Prof. Alexey Kavokin.

Our research on exciton-polariton Talbot effect demonstrated by loading exciton-polariton condensate into a phase-locked Bloch state of a 1D periodic array of mesa traps appeared in Physical Review Letters today. Congratulations to all involved in this work!

We congratulate Eliezer Estrecho on winning the highly competitive RSPE Robert and Helen Crompton Travel Award! This award will support his travel to our collaborators in Japan, Germany, and USA in 2017.

A postdoctoral position in theory of non-equilibrium polariton condensation is open in Prof. Matt Davis’ group at the University of Queensland:

http://jobs.uq.edu.au/caw/en/job/499231/postdoctoral-research-fellow

Congratulations to Guangyao (Leo) Li on submitting his PhD thesis and to Daniel Comber-Todd on submitting and defending his Honours thesis. These are the first thesis completions in our group.

UPDATE: Daniel graduated with H1 (first class Honours) – well done!

All seminars will run in the Le Couter Building Seminar Room 3.17 (Level 3)

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Tuesday 24 May

11:30-12:30: Elena Ostrovskaya (ANU) “Polariton BEC group: Introduction”

1:30-2:30: Tania Espinosa-Ortega (NTU, Singapore) “Polaritonics: Optical diodes and photonic circuits”

6:00 pm: Workshop dinner @ Sammy’s Kitchen (North Quarter Canberra Centre, Bunda St Canberra City)

Wednesday 25 May

11:00-12:00: Matthew Davis (University of Queensland, Australia) “Nonequilibrium states in finite temperature superfluids”

1:30-2:30: Michael Fraser (RIKEN, Japan), “Open-dissipative superfluidity and strongly-correlated states in exciton-polaritons”

Thursday 26 May

11:00-12:00: Eliezer Estrecho (ANU) “Single-shot measurements of polariton condensation dynamics”

1:30-2:30: Polariton BEC Lab tour

Friday 27 May

2:00-3:00: Tim Liew (NTU, Singapore) “Topological Polaritons and Chiral Bogoliubons”

Tuesday 31 May

11:00-12:00: Ivan Savenko (IBS Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems, South Korea) “Quantum fluctuation relations in a polariton system”