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Photon condensation in semiconductor microcavities is a transformative technique for engineering quantum states of light at room temperature by tailoring strong but incoherent light-matter interactions. While continuous-wave and electrical…

The difference in the adiabatic indices of photons and non-relativistic baryonic matter in the early Universe causes the electron temperature to be slightly lower than the radiation temperature. Thermalization of photons with a colder…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-13 Rishi Khatri , Rashid A. Sunyaev , Jens Chluba

We consider a microcavity made by a graded-index (GRIN) glass, doped by dye molecules, placed within two planar mirrors and study Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of photons. The presence of the mirrors leads to an effective photon mass,…

Optics · Physics 2014-11-04 Marcello Calvanese Strinati , Claudio Conti

The Planck distribution of photons emitted by a black body led to the development of quantum theory. An analogous distribution of phonons should exist in a Bose-Einstein condensate. We observe this Planck distribution of thermal phonons in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-02-18 R. Schley , A. Berkovitz , S. Rinott , I. Shammass , A. Blumkin , J. Steinhauer

The fundamental phenomenon of Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) has been observed in different systems of real and quasi-particles. The condensation of real particles is achieved through a major reduction in temperature while for…

The photonic Bose$-$Einstein condensate is a recently observed collective ground state of a coupled light-matter system. We describe this quantum state based on macroscopic quantum electrodynamics in dispersing and absorbing environments.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Andris Erglis , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann

In this review, we give an interdisciplinary overview of Bose-Einstein condensation phenomena in photonic systems. We cover a wide range of systems, from lasers to photon condensates in dye-filled cavities, to excitons in semiconductor…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-13 Jacqueline Bloch , Iacopo Carusotto , Michiel Wouters

Possibility of establishment of equilibrium between the photon and the dense photon bunch is studied. In the case, when the density of plasma does not change, the condition of production of the Bose-Einstein condensate is obtained. It is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-06-04 Levan N. Tsintsadze

Open quantum systems can be systematically controlled by making changes to their environment. A well-known example is the spontaneous radiative decay of an electronically excited emitter, such as an atom or a molecule, which is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-10-27 Mario Vretenar , Chris Toebes , Jan Klaers

We present a theoretical model for a coherent terahertz radiation source based on Bose-Einstein condensate of incoherently pumped microcavity photons. Energy relaxation is provided by inelastic photon scattering on a two-dimensional…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-12 Timofey V. Maximov , Norayr A. Asriyan , Igor L. Kurbakov , Yurii E. Lozovik

In this study, we examine the emergence of photon Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) resulting from the interaction of high-energy photons with a cold electron gas, modeled via a modified Kompaneets equation. Beginning with an initial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-26 Bing'ang Guo , Wei Kou , Xurong Chen

Light thermalised at room temperature in an optically pumped, dye-filled microcavity resembles a model system of non-interacting Bose-Einstein condensation in the presence of dissipation. We have experimentally investigated some of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-16 Jakov Marelic , R. A. Nyman

Photon condensation was first experimentally realized in 2010 within a dye-filled microcavity at room temperature. Since then, interest in the field has increased significantly, as a photon Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) represents a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-18 Joshua Krauß , Enrico Stein , Axel Pelster

This article reviews recent investigations on the phenomenon of Bose-Einstein condensation of dilute gases. Since the experimental observation of quantum degeneracy in atomic gases, the research activity in the field of coherent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Ph. W. Courteille , V. S. Bagnato , V. I. Yukalov

We report on an experimental study of photon thermalization and condensation in a semiconductor microresonator in the weak-coupling regime. We measure the dispersion relation of light and the photon mass in a single-wavelength, broad-area…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-09 S. Barland , P. Azam , G. L. Lippi , R. A. Nyman , R. Kaiser

This paper introduces a quasiequilibrium one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensation of photons trapped in a microtube. Light modes with a cut-off frequency (a photon's "mass") interact through different processes of absorption, emission,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-04-19 Alex J. Kruchkov

Bose-Einstein condensation happens as a gas of bosons is cooled below its transition temperature, and the ground state becomes macroscopically occupied. The phase transition occurs in the thermodynamic limit of many particles. However,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-03-24 Fredrik Brange , Tuomas Pyhäranta , Eppu Heinonen , Kay Brandner , Christian Flindt

Coherence is a defining feature of quantum condensates. These condensates are inherently multimode phenomena and in the macroscopic limit it becomes extremely difficult to resolve populations of individual modes and the coherence between…

The phenomenon of Bose-Einstein condensation is traditionally associated with and experimentally verified for low temperatures: either of nano-Kelvin scale for alkali atoms [1-3] or room temperatures for quasi-particles [4,5] or photons in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-04 M. A. Prakapenia , G. V. Vereshchagin

The demonstration of Bose-Einstein condensation in atomic gases at micro-Kelvin temperatures is a striking landmark while its evidence for semiconductor excitons still is a long-awaited milestone. This situation was not foreseen because…