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Collective Excitations and Stability of Nonequilibrium Polariton Supersolids

A. Grudinina , J. Cao , A. Kavokin , N. Voronova , A. Nalitov
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keywords polariton supersolidsnonequilibrium condensatescollective excitationsNambu-Goldstone modesexcitonic reservoirlong-range ordersemiconductor metasurfacesnegative effective mass
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Attractive polariton interactions mediated by the excitonic reservoir stabilize the nonequilibrium supersolid phase.

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This paper examines collective excitations in nonequilibrium supersolids formed by incoherently pumped polariton condensates. It shows that gapless modes arise from the spontaneous breaking of continuous phase and translation symmetries. The central finding is that attractive interactions between polaritons, mediated by the excitonic reservoir, are required to sustain the supersolid against instabilities. Numerical analysis identifies the parameter windows where both crystalline and superfluid long-range orders coexist, especially in negative-mass regimes realized in semiconductor metasurfaces.

Core claim

The authors demonstrate that the nonequilibrium supersolid in incoherently pumped polariton condensates features gapless Nambu-Goldstone modes arising from spontaneously broken continuous phase and translation symmetries. In the context of semiconductor metasurface implementations, attractive polariton interactions mediated by the excitonic reservoir are shown to be key to the phase's stability. Numerical investigations delineate the conditions allowing diagonal and off-diagonal long-range order in negative-mass nonequilibrium supersolids.

What carries the argument

Reservoir-mediated attractive interactions in the effective model of incoherently pumped polariton condensates, which supply the mechanism that stabilizes the supersolid phase.

If this is right

  • Gapless Nambu-Goldstone modes emerge in the excitation spectrum from the broken phase and translation symmetries.
  • Attractive interactions mediated by the excitonic reservoir are necessary to maintain stability of the supersolid.
  • Specific conditions support the coexistence of diagonal and off-diagonal long-range order for negative-mass polaritons.
  • The stability mechanism applies to the metasurface realizations recently reported.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Varying reservoir density or pumping parameters in experiments could map out the predicted stability boundaries.
  • Similar reservoir-mediated effects may influence supersolid formation in other driven-dissipative bosonic platforms.
  • The calculated excitation spectra provide concrete signatures that optical probes could target to confirm the phase.

Load-bearing premise

The effective model of incoherently pumped polariton condensates with reservoir-mediated interactions accurately captures the nonequilibrium dynamics and stability criteria without missing decay channels or higher-order effects.

What would settle it

Observation of a stable supersolid phase in a polariton system where reservoir-mediated attractive interactions have been experimentally suppressed would contradict the proposed stability requirement.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.21353 by A. Grudinina, A. Kavokin, A. Nalitov, J. Cao, N. Voronova.

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Figure 3. Figure 3: , respectively). The sound-like mode is also diffu￾sive only in a very narrow range of near-zero momenta, indicating the breakdown of long-range order, typical for non-equilibrium condensates. We see that when crossing the second threshold, the excitation spectrum changes from consisting of two branches to that with six branches, and the simultaneous appearance of the two gapless NG modes instead of one ca… view at source ↗
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Formation of nonequilibrium counterparts of supersolids, simultaneously characterized with spontaneous superfluid and crystalline order, was recently reported in incoherently pumped polariton condensates. We investigate collective excitation spectra of this phase and explicitly demonstrate the emergence of gapless Nambu-Goldstone modes due to spontaneously broken continuous phase and translation symmetries. For the recent implementation of the polariton nonequilibrium supersolidity in semiconductor metasurfaces [D. Trypogeorgos et al., Nature 639, 337 (2025)], we demonstrate the key role of attractive polariton interactions, mediated by the excitonic reservoir, for stability of the supersolid phase. Performing a thorough numerical investigation, we identify the conditions for existence of the diagonal and off-diagonal long-range order in negative-mass nonequilibrium supersolids.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript investigates collective excitations in nonequilibrium supersolids realized in incoherently pumped polariton condensates. It derives gapless Nambu-Goldstone modes arising from spontaneously broken U(1) phase and translational symmetries, demonstrates the essential stabilizing role of attractive reservoir-mediated polariton interactions for the recent metasurface experiment, and maps parameter regimes supporting diagonal versus off-diagonal long-range order via numerical scans in the negative-mass regime.

Significance. If the central derivations hold, the work provides a clear theoretical framework for the excitation spectra and stability of nonequilibrium supersolids, directly linking reservoir-mediated interactions to experimental observations. Explicit construction of Goldstone modes from symmetry breaking and systematic numerical identification of order regimes constitute reproducible, falsifiable contributions that strengthen the interpretation of driven-dissipative supersolidity.

minor comments (2)
  1. [Methods] §3 (or equivalent methods section): the effective model is stated to be standard, yet the text should explicitly confirm that neglected higher-order decay channels or reservoir fluctuations remain perturbative throughout the scanned parameter space used for the stability diagrams.
  2. [Figures] Figure captions and axis labels: several panels lack explicit units or normalization conventions for the interaction strengths and pump rates, which would aid direct comparison with the cited experiment.

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We thank the referee for their positive assessment of our manuscript on collective excitations in nonequilibrium polariton supersolids. The recommendation for minor revision is noted; however, no specific major comments or issues were raised in the report. We have therefore made no revisions to the manuscript at this stage, as the derivations of gapless Goldstone modes, the role of reservoir-mediated interactions, and the numerical mapping of order regimes appear to have been found satisfactory.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in derivation chain

full rationale

The paper derives collective excitation spectra from an effective model of incoherently pumped polariton condensates, showing gapless Nambu-Goldstone modes via standard application of broken U(1) and translational symmetries. Stability of the supersolid phase is assessed through explicit numerical scans over interaction parameters, identifying regimes of diagonal and off-diagonal order without reducing to self-definition, fitted inputs renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations. The cited experimental implementation is external, and the reservoir-mediated attraction is treated as an input to the model rather than derived from the target stability result. The derivation remains self-contained against external benchmarks within the stated approximations.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Abstract-only review; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities can be extracted. Typical polariton models assume mean-field Gross-Pitaevskii dynamics with reservoir coupling, but these are not detailed here.

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