Coherence and Topological Defects in Exciton-Polariton Condensates

Keywords: photons ; excitons ; light-matter interaction ; strong coupling ; exciton-polaritons ; Bose-Einstein condensation ; topological defects ; quantum vorticity ; spin dynamics ; polarization textures ; disorder ; interferometry ; optical spectroscopy ; holography These Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne EPFL, n° 5832 (2013)Programme doctoral PhotoniqueFaculte des sciences de baseInstitut de physique de la matiere condenseeLaboratoire d'optoelectronique quantiqueJury: C. Moser (president), N.G. Berloff, J. Dalibard, V. Savona Public defense: 2013-9-20 Reference doi:10.5075/epfl-thesis-5832Print copy in library catalog Record created on 2013-09-09, modified on 2017-05-12