Collective modes of a photon Bose–Einstein condensate with thermo-optic interaction

  • Although for photon Bose–Einstein condensates the main mechanism of the observed photon–photon interaction has already been identified to be of a thermo-optic nature, its influence on the condensate dynamics is still unknown. Here a mean-field description of this effect is derived, which consists of an open-dissipative Schrödinger equation for the condensate wave function coupled to a diffusion equation for the temperature of the dye solution. With this system at hand, the lowest-lying collective modes of a harmonically trapped photon Bose–Einstein condensate are calculated analytically via a linear stability analysis. As a result, the collective frequencies and, thus, the strength of the effective photon–photon interaction turn out to strongly depend on the thermal diffusion in the cavity mirrors. In particular, a breakdown of the Kohn theorem is predicted, i.e. the frequency of the centre-of-mass oscillation is reduced due to the thermo-optic photon–photon interaction.
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Author:Enrico SteinORCiD, Frank Vewinger, Axel Pelster
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-58225
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ab4b06
ISSN:1367-2630
Parent Title (English):New Journal of Physics
Publisher:IOP
Document Type:Article
Language of publication:English
Date of Publication (online):2019/10/23
Year of first Publication:2019
Publishing Institution:Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Date of the Publication (Server):2019/12/18
Issue:21, 2019
Page Number:11
Source:https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/ab4b06
Faculties / Organisational entities:Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Physik
DDC-Cassification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 530 Physik
Collections:Open-Access-Publikationsfonds
Licence (German):Zweitveröffentlichung