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Cooperative phases and phase transitions of Bose condensed light in dye filled cavities

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Abstract

Recent realization of Bose-Einstein condensation of light in 2D provides a new platform for studying novel phases and phase transitions. The combination of low effective mass of the confined light and the presence of the dye molecules with randomly oriented directions of the dipolar transition engages a competition between disorder and the tendency to forming algebraic off-diagonal order. The phase diagram of possible phases is constructed at the mean field level. One of the phases is the condensate of photon pairs induced solely by the orientational disorder. Such a geometrical mechanism of pairing has no analogy in other systems.

Original languageEnglish
Article number083009
JournalNew Journal of Physics
Volume21
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 5 Aug 2019

Funding

FundersFunder number
National Science Foundation1720251

    Keywords

    • Condensation
    • Phase transitions
    • Photons
    • Symmetry breaking

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