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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

We experimentally study Bose-Einstein condensation of photons (phBEC) in a dye-filled microcavity. Through multiple absorption and emission cycles the photons inside the microcavity thermalize to the rovibronic temperature of the dye…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-01-01 S. Greveling , F. van der Laan , K. L. Perrier , D. van Oosten

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

The thermodynamical properties of the photon-plasma system had been studied using statistical physics approach. Photons develop an effective mass in the medium thus -- as a result of the finite chemical potential -- a photon Bose-Einstein…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 Peter Mati

For equilibrium systems, the magnitude of thermal fluctuations is closely linked to the dissipative response to external perturbations. This fluctuation-dissipation relation has been described for material particles in a wide range of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-01-24 Fahri Emre Öztürk , Frank Vewinger , Martin Weitz , Julian Schmitt

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

When particles with integer spin accumulate at low temperature and high density they undergo Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC). Atoms, solid-state excitons and excitons coupled to light all exhibit BEC, which results in high coherence due to…

Photon Bose-Einstein condensation and photon thermalisation have been largely studied with molecular gain media in optical cavities. Their observation with semiconductors has remained elusive despite a large body of experimental results and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-15 Aurelian Loirette-Pelous , Jean-Jacques Greffet

We report measurements of particle number correlations and fluctuations of a photon Bose-Einstein condensate in a dye microcavity using a Hanbury Brown-Twiss experiment. The photon gas is coupled to a reservoir of molecular excitations,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-01-27 Julian Schmitt , Tobias Damm , David Dung , Frank Vewinger , Jan Klaers , Martin Weitz

The achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation of photons (phBEC) in a dye-filled microcavity has led to a renewed interest in the density distribution of the ideal Bose gas in a two-dimensional harmonic oscillator. We present measurements…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-07-11 S. Greveling , K. L. Perrier , D. van Oosten

We develop a nonequilibrium model of condensation and lasing of photons in a dye filled microcavity. We examine in detail the nature of the thermalization process induced by absorption and emission of photons by the dye molecules, and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-09-05 Peter Kirton , Jonathan Keeling

We have studied conditions of photon Bose-Einstein condensate formation that is in thermodynamic equilibrium with ideal gas of two-level Bose atoms below the degeneracy temperature. Equations describing thermodynamic equilibrium in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-12-31 N. Boichenko , Yu. Slyusarenko

Bosonic gases coupled to a particle reservoir have proven to support a regime of operation where Bose-Einstein condensation coexists with unusually large particle-number fluctuations. Experimentally, this situation has been realized with…

We provide an exact solution for the interplay between Bose-Einstein condensation and the Dicke-Hepp-Lieb self-organization transition of an ideal Bose gas trapped inside a single-mode optical cavity and subject to a transverse laser drive.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-10-10 Francesco Piazza , Philipp Strack , Wilhelm Zwerger

Bose-Einstein condensation, the macroscopic accumulation of bosonic particles in the energetic ground state below a critical temperature, has been demonstrated in several physical systems. The perhaps best known example of a bosonic gas,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-07-16 Jan Klaers , Frank Vewinger , Martin Weitz

Thermalization of radiation by contact to matter is a well-known concept, but the application of thermodynamic methods to complex quantum states of light remains a challenge. Here we observe Bose-Einstein condensation of photons into the…

We outline the general features of the conventional mean-field theory for the description of Bose-Einstein condensates at near zero temperatures. This approach, based on a phenomenological model, appears to give excellent agreement with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 N. P. Proukakis , K. Burnett

Recent realization of Bose-Einstein condensation of light in 2D provides a new platform for studying novel phases and phase transitions. The combination of low effective mass of the confined light and the presence of the dye molecules with…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-04-30 Victor Fleurov , Anatoly Kuklov

Thermo-optic interaction significantly differs from the usual particle-particle interactions in physics, as it is retarded in time. A prominent platform for realising this kind of interaction are photon Bose-Einstein condensates, which are…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-03-29 Enrico Stein , Axel Pelster

A quantum model of Bose-Einstein condensation based on processes involving polaritons excited in an intracavity absorbing cell with resonance atoms, which is manifested in the spectral characteristics of the system, is considered. It is…