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Partially suppressed long-range order in the Bose-Einstein condensation of polaritons

Materials Science 2015-06-25 v3 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

We adopt a kinetic theory of polariton non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation, to describe the formation of off-diagonal long-range order. The theory accounts properly for the dominant role of quantum fluctuations in the condensate. In realistic situations with optical excitation at high energy, it predicts a significant depletion of the condensate caused by long-wavelength fluctuations. As a consequence, the one-body density matrix in space displays a partially suppressed long-range order and a pronounced dependence on the finite size of the system.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0603106,
  title  = {Partially suppressed long-range order in the Bose-Einstein condensation of polaritons},
  author = {Davide Sarchi and Vincenzo Savona},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0603106},
  year   = {2015}
}