Non-quantum liquefaction of coherent gases

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2009.02.002MaRDI QIDQ833262zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors David Novoa, Humberto Michinel, Daniele Tommasini, María I. Rodas-Verde

Publication date 12 August 2009

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1224

zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionsolitonscold atomsliquefactionfilamentation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Soliton equations (35Q51) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10) Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics (82C26)

Abstract: We show that a gas-to-liquid phase transition at zero temperature may occur in a coherent gas of bosons in the presence of competing nonlinear effects. This situation can take place both in atomic systems like Bose-Einstein Condensates in alkalii gases with two and three-body interactions of opposite signs, as well as in laser beams which propagate through optical media with Kerr (focusing) and higher order (defocusing) nonlinear responses. The liquefaction process takes place in absence of any quantum effect and can be formulated in the frame of a mean field theory, in terms of the minimization of a thermodynamic potential. We also show numerically that the effect of linear gain and three-body recombination also provides a rich dynamics with the emergence of self-organization behaviour.

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