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20102026
most citedBose-Einstein condensation of photons in an optical microcavity

766 citations · 1.7k across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Limit Cycles in a Photonic Dimer with Tuneable Non-Hermitian Interactions

Kevin J. H. Peters, Peter Schnorrenberg, Daniel Ehrmanntraut +2

Interactions govern the emergence of collective behaviour in classical and quantum many-body systems. While conservative interactions are well known to generate nonlinear phenomena…

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Fluctuations of a Photon Bose-Einstein Condensate Coupled to a Reservoir: Describing Coherence Properties in a Free-Energy Model

Martin Weitz, Andreas Redmann, Riccardo Panico +4

Photons are mutually nearly noninteracting particles, so thermalized photon ensembles are commonly obtained not from direct particle-particle-interactions but rather from contact w…

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Universal critical behavior in ideal Bose-Einstein condensation

Arturo Camacho-Guardian, Leon Kleebank, Frank Vewinger +4

Ideal Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) remains a paradigmatic example of a continuous phase transition and a cornerstone for understanding quantum degenerate bosonic matter. We dem…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025

Observation of critical scaling in the Bose gas universality class

Leon Kleebank, Frank Vewinger, Arturo Camacho-Guardian +4

Critical exponents characterize the divergent scaling of thermodynamic quantities near phase transitions and allow for the classification of physical systems into universality clas…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025★ 4 cited

Time-periodic driving of a bath-coupled open quantum gas of light

Andris Erglis, Alexander Sazhin, Frank Vewinger +3

We study the frequency-resolved density response of a photon Bose-Einstein condensate coupled to a bath of dye molecules by time-periodic driving. By monitoring the photon number d…

cond-mat.quant-gas2024

Thermodynamics and State Preparation in a Two-State System of Light

Christian Kurtscheid, Andreas Redmann, Frank Vewinger +2

The coupling of two-level quantum systems to the thermal environment is a fundamental problem, with applications ranging from qubit state preparation to spin models. However, for t…

cond-mat.quant-gas2024★ 7 cited

Observation of Nonlinear Response and Onsager Regression in a Photon Bose-Einstein Condensate

Alexander Sazhin, Vladimir N. Gladilin, Andris Erglis +5

The quantum regression theorem states that the correlations of a system at two different times are governed by the same equations of motion as the temporal response of the average…

cond-mat.quant-gas2023★ 4 cited

Bose-Einstein Condensation of Photons in a Four-Site Quantum Ring

Andreas Redmann, Christian Kurtscheid, Niels Wolf +3

Thermalization of radiation by contact to matter is a well-known concept, but the application of thermodynamic methods to complex quantum states of light remains a challenge. Here…

cond-mat.quant-gas2023★ 7 cited

Dimensional Crossover in a Quantum Gas of Light

Kirankumar Karkihalli Umesh, Julian Schulz, Julian Schmitt +3

The dimensionality of a system profoundly influences its physical behaviour, leading to the emergence of different states of matter in many-body quantum systems. In lower dimension…

quant-ph2023★ 22 cited

Observation of a topological edge state stabilized by dissipation

Helene Wetter, Michael Fleischhauer, Stefan Linden +1

Robust states emerging at the boundary of a system constitute a hallmark for topological band structures. Other than in closed systems, topologically protected states can occur eve…

physics.optics2022★ 3 cited

A Sunlight-pumped Two-dimensional Thermalized Photon Gas

Erik Busley, Leon Espert Miranda, Christian Kurtscheid +4

The Liouville theorem states that the phase-space volume of an ensemble in a closed system remains constant. While gases of material particles can efficiently be cooled by sympathe…

cond-mat.quant-gas2022★ 18 cited

Fluctuation-dissipation relation for a Bose-Einstein condensate of photons

Fahri Emre Öztürk, Frank Vewinger, Martin Weitz +1

For equilibrium systems, the magnitude of thermal fluctuations is closely linked to the dissipative response to external perturbations. This fluctuation-dissipation relation has be…

cond-mat.quant-gas2022★ 42 cited

Emergence of isotropy and dynamic scaling in 2D wave turbulence in a homogeneous Bose gas

Maciej Gałka, Panagiotis Christodoulou, Martin Gazo +4

We realise a turbulent cascade of wave excitations in a homogeneous 2D Bose gas, and probe on all relevant time and length scales how it builds up from small to large momenta, unti…

cond-mat.quant-gas2021★ 36 cited

Compressibility and the Equation of State of an Optical Quantum Gas in a Box

Erik Busley, Leon Espert Miranda, Andreas Redmann +5

The compressibility of a medium, quantifying its response to mechanical perturbations, is a fundamental property determined by the equation of state. For gases of material particle…

cond-mat.quant-gas2020★ 91 cited

Observation of a non-Hermitian phase transition in an optical quantum gas

Fahri Emre Öztürk, Tim Lappe, Göran Hellmann +5

Quantum gases of light, as photons or polariton condensates in optical microcavities, are collective quantum systems enabling a tailoring of dissipation from e.g. cavity loss. This…

cond-mat.quant-gas2020★ 81 cited

Observation of first and second sound in a BKT superfluid

Panagiotis Christodoulou, Maciej Gałka, Nishant Dogra +3

Superfluidity in its various forms has fascinated scientists since the observation of frictionless flow in liquid helium II. In three spatial dimensions (3D), it is conceptually as…

cond-mat.quant-gas2020★ 20 cited

Realizing arbitrary trapping potentials for light via direct laser writing of mirror surface profiles

Christian Kurtscheid, David Dung, Andreas Redmann +5

The versatility of quantum gas experiments greatly benefits from the ability to apply variable potentials. Here we describe a method which allows the preparation of potential struc…

quant-ph2019★ 13 cited

Fluctuation dynamics of an open photon Bose-Einstein condensate

Fahri Emre Ozturk, Tim Lappe, Goran Hellmann +5

Bosonic gases coupled to a particle reservoir have proven to support a regime of operation where Bose-Einstein condensation coexists with unusually large particle-number fluctuatio…

cond-mat.quant-gas2018★ 24 cited

Dynamics and correlations of a Bose-Einstein condensate of photons

Julian Schmitt

The Tutorial reports recent experimental advances in studies of the dynamics as well as the number and phase correlations of a Bose-Einstein condensed photon gas confined in a high…

cond-mat.quant-gas2018★ 10 cited

Elliptic flow in a strongly-interacting normal Bose gas

Richard J. Fletcher, Jay Man, Raphael Lopes +6

We study the anisotropic, elliptic expansion of a thermal atomic Bose gas released from an anisotropic trapping potential, for a wide range of interaction strengths across a Feshba…

cond-mat.quant-gas2017★ 76 cited

Variable Potentials for Thermalized Light and Coupled Condensates

David Dung, Christian Kurtscheid, Tobias Damm +4

For over a decade, cold atoms in lattice potentials have been an attractive platform to simulate phenomena known from solid state theory, as the Mott-insulator transition. In contr…

cond-mat.quant-gas2017★ 31 cited

First-order spatial coherence measurements in a thermalized two-dimensional photonic quantum gas

Tobias Damm, David Dung, Frank Vewinger +2

Phase transitions between different states of matter can profoundly modify the order in physical systems, with the emergence of ferromagnetic or topological order constituting impo…

physics.atom-ph2016★ 4 cited

Absorption spectroscopy of xenon and ethylene-noble gas mixtures at high pressure: Towards Bose-Einstein condensation of vacuum ultraviolet photons

Christian Wahl, Rudolf Brausemann, Julian Schmitt +3

Bose-Einstein condensation is a phenomenon well known for material particles as cold atomic gases, and this concept has in recent years been extended to photons confined in microsc…

cond-mat.quant-gas2016★ 1 cited

Bose-Einstein Condensation of Photons versus Lasing and Hanbury Brown-Twiss Measurements with a Condensate of Light

Julian Schmitt, Tobias Damm, David Dung +3

The advent of controlled experimental accessibility of Bose-Einstein condensates, as realized with e.g. cold atomic gases, exciton-polaritons, and more recently photons in a dye-fi…