Complex light: Dynamic phase transitions of a light beam in a nonlinear non-local disordered medium
Optics
2007-05-23 v3 Soft Condensed Matter
Pattern Formation and Solitons
Abstract
The dynamics of several light filaments (spatial optical solitons) propagating in an optically nonlinear and non-local random medium is investigated using the paradigms of the physics of complexity. Cluster formation is interpreted as a dynamic phase transition. A connection with the random matrices approach for explaining the vibrational spectra of an ensemble of solitons is pointed out. General arguments based on a Brownian dynamics model are validated by the numerical simulation of a stochastic partial differential equation system. The results are also relevant for Bose condensed gases and plasma physics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0412051,
title = {Complex light: Dynamic phase transitions of a light beam in a nonlinear non-local disordered medium},
author = {Claudio Conti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0412051},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
11 pages, 20 figures. Small revisions, added a reference