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Sub-cycle switch-on of ultrastrong light-matter interaction (Articolo in rivista)

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G. Guenter; A. A. Anappara; J. Hees; A. Sell; G. Biasiol; L. Sorba; S. De Liberato; C. Ciuti; A. Tredicucci; A. Leitenstorfer; R. Huber (2009)
Sub-cycle switch-on of ultrastrong light-matter interaction
in Nature (Lond.); Nature Publishing Group, New York (Stati Uniti d'America)
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G. Guenter; A. A. Anappara; J. Hees; A. Sell; G. Biasiol; L. Sorba; S. De Liberato; C. Ciuti; A. Tredicucci; A. Leitenstorfer; R. Huber (literal)

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Department of Physics and Center for Applied Photonics, University of Konstanz, Universitaetsstrasse 10, 78464 Konstanz, Germany; Laboratorio NEST, CNR-INFM and Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza San Silvestro 12, I-56127 Pisa, Italy; Laboratorio Nazionale TASC CNR-INFM, Area Science Park, I-34012 Trieste, Italy; Laboratoire Materiaux et Phenomenes Quantiques, Universite ? Paris Diderot-Paris 7, Case 7021, Batiment Condorcet, 75205 Paris, France; Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Ecole Normale Superieure, UMR 8551, 75005 Paris, France (literal)

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Controlling the way light interacts with material excitations is at the heart of cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED). In the strong-coupling regime, quantum emitters in a microresonator absorb and spontaneously re-emit a photon many times before dissipation becomes effective, giving rise to mixed light-matter eigenmodes(1-12). Recent experiments(13) in semiconductor microcavities reached a new limit of ultrastrong coupling(14), where photon exchange occurs on timescales comparable to the oscillation period of light. In this limit, ultrafast modulation of the coupling strength has been suggested to lead to unconventional QED phenomena(14,15). Although sophisticated light-matter coupling has been achieved in all three spatial dimensions, control in the fourth dimension, time, is little developed. Here we use a quantum-well waveguide structure to optically tune light-matter interaction from weak to ultrastrong and turn on maximum coupling within less than one cycle of light. In this regime, a class of extremely non-adiabatic phenomena becomes observable. In particular, we directly monitor how a coherent photon population converts to cavity polaritons during abrupt switching. This system forms a promising laboratory in which to study novel sub-cycle QED effects and represents an efficient room-temperature switching device operating at unprecedented speed. (literal)

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