Photoluminescence asymmetry with quantum state preparation

We show that the number of photons in a strongly coupled exciton–photon system is asymmetric with the detuning of the modes when, in the spontaneous emission regime, the two modes are entangled. As changing the detuning is easy in semiconductor microcavities–where on the other hand the nature of the strong-coupling in terms of single-particle effects is not yet resolved–we propose this effect as a test of the quantum character of microcavity polaritons.