Localization engineering by resonant driving in dissipative polariton arrays

Abstract: Arrays of microcavity polaritons are very versatile systems that allow for broad possibilities for the engineering of multi-orbital lattice geometries using different state preparation schemes. One of these schemes, spatially modulated resonant driving, can be used to selectively localize the polariton field on a particular region of the lattice. Both the frequency and the spatial amplitude distribution (module and phase) of the driven laser field are important and serve as a knob to control the extend of the spatial localization. Here, we analyse both the linear and nonlinear regimes using the lattice Green function formalism that is particularly suitable for the case of polariton arrays described in a tight-binding approximation. We identify the conditions for maximum localization on arbitrary lattice's geometries and discuss some experimentally relevant cases. We find that the polariton-polariton interaction leads to a frequency shift of the optimal localization condition that could be used to further control it.