Skoltech team reports an important step to making optical simulators real-world devices

(Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech)) A group of Skoltech scientists, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Southampton (UK), developed a fully optical approach to control the couplings between polariton condensates in optical lattices. This study is an important step towards the practical application of optical polariton condensate lattices as a platform for simulating condensed matter phases.