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We consider Bose-Einstein condensation of photons in an optical cavity filled with dye molecules that are excited by laser light. By using the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism we derive a Langevin field equation that describes the dynamics of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-16 A. -W. de Leeuw , H. T. C. Stoof , R. A. Duine

We present a comprehensive theoretical investigation of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) and their manifestations in astrophysical and cosmological contexts. Building upon the foundations of quantum statistics in curved spacetime, we derive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-25 Nader Haddad

The trapping and cooling of photon gases in microcavities has been used to create Bose-Einstein condensates. We investigate the conditions required for condensation in dye-filled microcavities, with photon populations created either by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Luisa Toledo Tude , Emily Haughton , Paul R. Eastham

Bose-Einstein condensation is a phenomenon well known for material particles as cold atomic gases, and this concept has in recent years been extended to photons confined in microscopic optical cavities. Essential for the operation of such a…

The achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in ultracold vapors of alkali atoms has given enormous impulse to the theoretical and experimental study of dilute atomic gases in condensed quantum states inside magnetic traps and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 Weizhu Bao

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

We analyze the model of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) parametrically coupled to a molecular BEC via a photoassociation process. We show that an interplay of nonlinear inter- and intra-species interactions leads to the formation…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-26 Benedict J. Cusack , Tristram J. Alexander , Elena A. Ostrovskaya , Yuri S. Kivshar

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 have observed Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of trapped atomic hydrogen, and studied it by two-photon spectroscopy of the 1S-2S transition. In these lecture notes we briefly review the history of spin-polarized atomic hydrogen and…

In this paper, we study a system of bosons trapped in a confining potential, interacting with a quantized field of coherent photons in the mean field description of non-relativistic Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) obtained by [N. Leopold and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Thomas Chen , Ali Mezher

We propose a measurement scheme that allows determination of even-moments of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) atom number, in a ring cavity, by continuous photodetection of an off-resonant quantized optical field. A fast cavity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 G. A. Prataviera , M. C. de Oliveira

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

BEC of exciton-polaritons and related effects such as superfluidity1,2, spontaneous symmetry breaking3,4 and quantised vortices5,6 open way to creation of novel light sources7 and optical logic elements8. Remarkable observations of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-08-24 Elena Kammann , Hamid Ohadi , Maria Maragkou , Alexey V. Kavokin , Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

In this paper, we study theoretically the optomechanical interaction of an almost pure condensate of photons with an oscillating mechanical membrane in a micro-cavity. We show that in the Bogoliubov approximation, due to the large number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-17 M. Fani , M. H. Naderi

This chapter presents an overview of the properties of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped in a periodic potential. This system has attracted a wide interest in the last years, and a few excellent reviews of the field have already…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Smerzi , A. Trombettoni

Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) is a quantum mechanical phenomenon directly linked to the quantum statistics of bosons. While cold atomic gases provide a new arena for exploring the nature of BEC, a long-term quest to confirm BEC of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-07-11 Kosuke Yoshioka , Eunmi Chae , Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami

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

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 consider a quantum theory of elastic light scattering from macroscopic atomic sample existing in the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) phase. Following to the second quantized formalism we introduce a set of coupled and closed diagram…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-17 Victoria Ezhova , Leonid Gerasimov , Dmitriy Kupriyanov

We report a time-resolved study of the thermalization dynamics and the lasing to photon Bose-Einstein condensation crossover by in-\textit{situ} monitoring the photon kinetics in a dye microcavity. When the equilibration of the light to the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-08-05 Julian Schmitt , Tobias Damm , David Dung , Frank Vewinger , Jan Klaers , Martin Weitz