Quantum hyperbolic metamaterials with exciton-polaritons in semiconductor Bragg mirrors

A novel mechanism for realization of hyperbolic metamaterials with use of spatially periodic semiconductor Bragg mirrors containing periodically arranged quantum wells is proposed. The hyperbolic dispersion of exciton-polariton modes is realized near the top of the first allowed photonic mini-band in the structure. We predict formation of low amplitude breather-like oscillatory structures: oscillons described by kink shaped solutions of the effective Ginzburg-Landau-Higgs equation.