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SCIENCE
Volume 336, Issue 6082, Pages 704-707Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1219010
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- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G060649/1, EP/F011393]
- European Union [CLERMONT4 PITNGA-2009-235114, INDEX FP7-2011-289968]
- POLATOM European Science Foundation Research Network
- EPSRC [EP/G060649/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G060649/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Tunneling of electrons through a potential barrier is fundamental to chemical reactions, electronic transport in semiconductors and superconductors, magnetism, and devices such as terahertz oscillators. Whereas tunneling is typically controlled by electric fields, a completely different approach is to bind electrons into bosonic quasiparticles with a photonic component. Quasiparticles made of such light-matter microcavity polaritons have recently been demonstrated to Bose-condense into superfluids, whereas spatially separated Coulomb-bound electrons and holes possess strong dipole interactions. We use tunneling polaritons to connect these two realms, producing bosonic quasiparticles with static dipole moments. Our resulting three-state system yields dark polaritons analogous to those in atomic systems or optical waveguides, thereby offering new possibilities for electromagnetically induced transparency, room-temperature condensation, and adiabatic photon-to-electron transfer.
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