Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Supermode-density-wave-polariton condensation with a Bose–Einstein condensate in a multimode cavity

  • Alicia J. Kollár,
  • Alexander T. Papageorge,
  • Varun D. Vaidya,
  • Yudan Guo,
  • Jonathan Keeling,
  • Benjamin L. Lev

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14386
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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When a single mode optical cavity is coupled to a Bose-Einstein condensate, one usually observes a single mode of light when strongly pumped. Here the authors observe a supermode in the output of a multimode cavity and relate this to a signature of a nonequilibrium condensation phase transition.