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We analyse the atomic state obtained by photo-dissociation of a molecular Bose-Einstein-condensate. This process is equivalent to down-conversion in quantum optics where it is responsible for squeezing of the field amplitudes. Monte Carlo…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Uffe V. Poulsen , Klaus Molmer

We study the optical loading of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate by spontaneous emission of atoms in excited electronic state in the Boson-Accumulation Regime. We generalize the previous simplified analysis of ref. [Phys. Rev. A 53, 2466…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. Floegel , L. Santos , M. Lewenstein

We derive the equation of motion for a Bose-Einstein condensate of photons in a dye-microcavity system, starting from Maxwell's equations. Our theory takes into account mirror shape, Kerr-type intensity-dependent refractive index and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 R. A. Nyman , M. H. Szymanska

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

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

We examine in detail the mechanisms behind thermalization and Bose-Einstein condensation of a gas of photons in a dye-filled microcavity. We derive a microscopic quantum model, based on that of a standard laser, and show how this model can…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-23 Peter Kirton , Jonathan Keeling

Here we report the measurement of thermal photon statistics from a semiconductor photon Bose-Einstein condensate operating just above the condensation threshold. We identify a regime where coherent, single mode emission occurs while still…

We investigate the notion of Bose-Einstein condensation of interacting particles. The definition of the condensate is based on the existence of the dominant eigenvalue of the single-particle density matrix. The statistical properties and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Cirone , K. Goral , K. Rzazewski , M. Wilkens

Cavity quantum electrodynamics (cavity QED) describes the coherent interaction between matter and an electromagnetic field confined within a resonator structure, and is providing a useful platform for developing concepts in quantum…

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

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

The synchronization of coherent states of light has long been an important subject of basic research and technology. Recently, a new concept for analog computers has emerged where this synchronization process can be exploited to solve…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-10-06 Chris Toebes , Mario Vretenar , Jan Klaers

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…

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…

Photons can come to thermal equilibrium at room temperature by scattering multiple times from a fluorescent dye. By confining the light and dye in a microcavity, a minimum energy is set and the photons can then show Bose-Einstein…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Robert A. Nyman , Benjamin T. Walker

Bose-Einstein condensation, the macroscopic occupation of a single quantum state, appears in equilibrium quantum statistical mechanics and persists also in the hydrodynamic regime close to equilibrium. Here we show that even when a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-31 Daniel Vorberg , Waltraut Wustmann , Roland Ketzmerick , André Eckardt

We show that stimulated scattering of an isolated system of N Bose particles with initially broad energy distribution can yield condensation of particles into excited collective state in which most of the bosons occupy one or several modes.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-31 Anatoly A. Svidzinsky , Luqi Yuan , Marlan O. Scully

Dilute Bose gases, cooled down to low temperatures below the Bose-Einstein condensation temperature, form coherent ensembles described by the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Stationary solutions to the latter are topological coherent modes. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova

A condensate with two internal states coupled by external electromagnetic radiation, is described by coupled Gross Pitaevskii equations, whose eigenstates are analogous to the dressed states of quantum optics. We solve for these eigenstates…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 P. B. Blakie , R. J. Ballagh , C. W. Gardiner

We study the interaction of a Bose-Einstein condensate, which is confined in an optical lattice, with a largely detuned light field propagating through the condensate. If the condensate is in its ground state it acts as a periodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Karl-Peter Marzlin , Weiping Zhang