Nature Communications (May 2022)

Analogue cosmological particle creation in an ultracold quantum fluid of light

  • Jeff Steinhauer,
  • Murad Abuzarli,
  • Tangui Aladjidi,
  • Tom Bienaimé,
  • Clara Piekarski,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Elisabeth Giacobino,
  • Alberto Bramati,
  • Quentin Glorieux

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30603-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Under certain conditions light can act as a fluid like a Bose-Einstein condensate. Here the authors discuss an analogy of cosmological particle creation using such a quantum fluid of light.