Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Non-stationary statistics and formation jitter in transient photon condensation

  • Benjamin T. Walker,
  • João D. Rodrigues,
  • Himadri S. Dhar,
  • Rupert F. Oulton,
  • Florian Mintert,
  • Robert A. Nyman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15154-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Description of non-equilibrium phase transitions is problematic, due to the absence of suitable free energy landscapes. Here, the authors experimentally show delayed photon condensation and timing jitter in a dye-filled microcavity, modelled by a non-equilibrium extension of the free-energy landscape.