Non-equilibrium Bose–Einstein condensation in photonic systems

J Bloch, I Carusotto, M Wouters - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The study of Bose–Einstein condensation effects in photonic systems has revealed
a rich phenomenology related to spontaneous coherence generation in driven-dissipative …

Ultra-light dark matter

EGM Ferreira - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2021 - Springer
Ultra-light dark matter is a class of dark matter models (DM), where DM is composed by
bosons with masses ranging from 10^-24\, eV< m< eV 10-24 eV< m< eV. These models …

Spatial beam self-cleaning in multimode fibres

K Krupa, A Tonello, BM Shalaby, M Fabert… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Multimode optical fibres are enjoying renewed attention, boosted by the urgent need to
overcome the current capacity crunch of single-mode fibre (SMF) systems and by recent …

Quantum fluids of light

I Carusotto, C Ciuti - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2013 - APS
This article reviews recent theoretical and experimental advances in the fundamental
understanding and active control of quantum fluids of light in nonlinear optical systems. In …

Small-scale structure of fuzzy and axion-like dark matter

JC Niemeyer - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
Axion-like particle (ALP) dark matter shows distinctive behavior on scales where wavelike
effects dominate over self-gravity. Ultralight axions are candidates for fuzzy dark matter …

Direct observations of thermalization to a Rayleigh–Jeans distribution in multimode optical fibres

H Pourbeyram, P Sidorenko, FO Wu, N Bender… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Nonlinear multimode optical systems support a host of intriguing effects that are impossible
in single-mode settings. Although nonlinearity can provide a rich environment where the …

Thermodynamic theory of highly multimoded nonlinear optical systems

FO Wu, AU Hassan, DN Christodoulides - Nature Photonics, 2019 - nature.com
Lately, there has been a resurgence of interest in nonlinear multimode optical systems. The
sheer complexity emerging from the presence of a multitude of nonlinearly interacting …

Optical wave turbulence: Towards a unified nonequilibrium thermodynamic formulation of statistical nonlinear optics

A Picozzi, J Garnier, T Hansson, P Suret, S Randoux… - Physics Reports, 2014 - Elsevier
The nonlinear propagation of coherent optical fields has been extensively explored in the
framework of nonlinear optics, while the linear propagation of incoherent fields has been …

Thermalization of orbital angular momentum beams in multimode optical fibers

EV Podivilov, F Mangini, OS Sidelnikov, M Ferraro… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We report on the thermalization of light carrying orbital angular momentum in multimode
optical fibers, induced by nonlinear intermodal interactions. A generalized Rayleigh-Jeans …

Classical Rayleigh-Jeans condensation of light waves: Observation and thermodynamic characterization

K Baudin, A Fusaro, K Krupa, J Garnier, S Rica… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Theoretical studies on wave turbulence predict that a purely classical system of random
waves can exhibit a process of condensation, which originates in the singularity of the …