Bose–Einstein condensation of light in a semiconductor quantum well microcavity

RC Schofield, M Fu, E Clarke, I Farrer, A Trapalis… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
When particles with integer spin accumulate at low temperature and high density, they
undergo Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC). Atoms, magnons, solid-state excitons, surface …

Recognition of orbital-angular-momentum modes with different topological charges and their unknown superpositions via machine learning

LF Zhang, YY Lin, ZY She, ZH Huang, JZ Li, X Luo… - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
Light beams carrying orbital-angular-momentum (OAM) play an important role in optical
manipulation and communication owing to their unbounded state space. However, it is still …

Machine learning of phase transitions in nonlinear polariton lattices

D Zvyagintseva, H Sigurdsson, VK Kozin… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Polaritonic lattices offer a unique testbed for studying nonlinear driven-dissipative physics.
They show qualitative changes of their steady state as a function of system parameters …

Photon Bose–Einstein Condensation and Lasing in Semiconductor Cavities

A Loirette‐Pelous, JJ Greffet - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Photon Bose–Einstein condensation and photon thermalisation have been largely
studied with molecular gain media in optical cavities. However, their observation with …

Bespoke mirror fabrication for quantum simulation with light in open-access microcavities

BT Walker, BJ Ash, AAP Trichet, JM Smith… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In this work, we use focused ion beam (FIB) milling to generate custom mirror shapes for
quantum simulation in optical microcavities. In the paraxial limit, light in multimode optical …

Photonic Bose-Einstein condensation in the continuum limit

A Erglis, M Radonjić, SY Buhmann - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We investigate the properties of the photon Bose-Einstein condensate in the limit of small
mode spacing. Alongside the well-known threshold of the phase transition at large mode …

Nanomechanically-induced nonequilibrium quantum phase transition to a self-organized density wave of a Bose-Einstein condensate

M Radonjić, L Mixa, A Pelster, M Thorwart - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
We report on a nonequilibrium quantum phase transition (NQPT) in a hybrid quantum many-
body system consisting of a vibrational mode of a damped nanomembrane interacting …

Quest for vortices in photon condensates

HS Dhar, Z Zuo, JD Rodrigues, RA Nyman, F Mintert - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
We predict that a photon condensate inside a dye-filled microcavity forms long-lived spatial
structures that resemble vortices when incoherently excited by a focused pump orbiting …

Étude théorique de l'émission de lumière par une assemblée d'émetteurs thermalisés dans un résonateur

A Loirette - 2023 - pastel.hal.science
Le contrôle des propriétés de l'émission de lumière (taux d'émission spontanée, spectre,
directivité, polarisation…) est aux cœur de nombreuses applications actuelles. Une …

Transport and localization of light inside a dye-filled microcavity

HS Dhar, JD Rodrigues, BT Walker, RF Oulton… - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
The driven-dissipative nature of light-matter interaction inside a multimode, dye-filled
microcavity makes it an ideal system to study nonequilibrium phenomena, such as transport …