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High temperature phase transition in the coupled atom-light system in the presence of optical collisions

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-05-27 v1 Atomic Physics

Abstract

The problem of photonic phase transition for the system of a two-level atomic ensemble interacting with a quantized single-mode electromagnetic field in the presence of optical collisions (OC) is considered. We have shown that for large and negative atom-field detuning a photonic field exhibits high temperature second order phase transition to superradiant state under thermalization condition for coupled atom-light states. Such a transition can be connected with superfluid (coherent) properties of photon-like low branch (LB) polaritons. We discuss the application of metallic cylindrical waveguide for observing predicted effects.

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@article{arxiv.1103.4348,
  title  = {High temperature phase transition in the coupled atom-light system in the presence of optical collisions},
  author = {A. P. Alodjants and I. Yu. Chestnov and S. M. Arakelian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.4348},
  year   = {2015}
}

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8 pages, 2 figures