Quest for Vortices in Photon Condensates
Quantum Physics
2021-10-04 v2 Quantum Gases
Optics
Abstract
We predict that a photon condensate inside a dye-filled microcavity forms long-lived spatial structures that resemble vortices when incoherently excited by a focused pump orbiting around the cavity axis. The finely structured density of the condensates have a discrete rotational symmetry that is controlled by the orbital frequency of the pump spot and is phase-coherent over its full spatial extent despite the absence of any effective photon-photon interactions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2104.11002,
title = {Quest for Vortices in Photon Condensates},
author = {Himadri S. Dhar and Zai Zuo and João D. Rodrigues and Robert A. Nyman and Florian Mintert},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.11002},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
Accepted as a Letter in Phys. Rev. A; 8 pages, 5 figures