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Evaporative Cooling of a Photon Fluid to Quantum Degeneracy
- Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- We demonstrate that the process of evaporative cooling, as associated with the cooling of atomic gases, can also be employed to condense a system of photons giving rise to coherent properties of the light. The system we study consists of photons in a high-quality Fabry-Perot cavity with photon interactions mediated by a nonlinear atomic medium. We predict a macroscopic occupation of the lowest energy mode and evaluate the conditions for realizing a narrow spectral width indicative of a long coherence time for the field.
- Subjects :
- Condensed Matter - Other Condensed Matter
Physics - Optics
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.0807.1356
- Document Type :
- Working Paper