Experimental demonstration of crowd synchrony and first-order transition with lasers
arXiv:2005.09511 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.043220
Abstract
Crowd synchrony, which corresponds to the synchronization of different and independent oscillators that interact with each other via a common intermediate, is ubiquitous in many fields. Here, we experimentally demonstrate the effect of crowd synchrony, analogous to that of the Millennium Bridge, by resorting to coupled lasers. When the number of lasers is below a critical number, there is no synchronization, but after reaching the critical number, the lasers instantaneously synchronize. We show that the synchronization of the lasers as a function of their number follows a first-order-like transition, and that our experimental results are in good agreement with those predicted by theoretical models.
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