摘要: The strong coupling between photons and matter excitations such as excitons,
phonons, and magnons is of central importance in the study of light-matter
interactions. Bridging the flying and stationary quantum states, the strong
light-matter coupling enables the coherent transmission, storage, and
processing of quantum information, which is essential for building photonic
quantum networks. Over the past few decades, exciton-polaritons have attracted
substantial research interest due to their half-light-half-matter bosonic
nature. Coupling exciton-polaritons with magnetic orders grants access to rich
many-body phenomena, but has been limited by the availability of material
systems that exhibit simultaneous exciton resonances and magnetic ordering.
Here we report magnetically-dressed microcavity exciton-polaritons in the van
der Waals antiferromagnetic (AFM) semiconductor CrSBr coupled to a Tamm plasmon
microcavity. Angle-resolved spectroscopy reveals an exceptionally high
exciton-polariton coupling strength attaining 169 meV, demonstrating
ultrastrong coupling that persists up to room temperature.
Temperature-dependent exciton-polariton spectroscopy senses the magnetic order
change from AFM to paramagnetism in CrSBr, confirming its magnetic nature. By
applying an out-of-plane magnetic field, an effective tuning of the polariton
energy is further achieved while maintaining the ultrastrong exciton-photon
coupling strength, which is attributed to the spin canting process that
modulates the interlayer exciton interaction. Our work proposes a hybrid
quantum platform enabled by robust opto-electronic-magnetic coupling, promising
for quantum interconnects and transducers.