Evaporative Cooling of a Photon Fluid to Quantum Degeneracy
Other Condensed Matter
2008-07-10 v1 Optics
Abstract
We demonstrate that the process of evaporative cooling, as associated with the cooling of atomic gases, can also be employed to condense a system of photons giving rise to coherent properties of the light. The system we study consists of photons in a high-quality Fabry-Perot cavity with photon interactions mediated by a nonlinear atomic medium. We predict a macroscopic occupation of the lowest energy mode and evaluate the conditions for realizing a narrow spectral width indicative of a long coherence time for the field.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0807.1356,
title = {Evaporative Cooling of a Photon Fluid to Quantum Degeneracy},
author = {B. T. Seaman and M. J. Holland},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.1356},
year = {2008}
}