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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 9: Quantum Gases: Bosons I

Q 9.1: Hauptvortrag

Montag, 6. März 2023, 17:00–17:30, A320

Compressibility and the equation of state of an optical quantum gas in a box — •Julian Schmitt — University of Bonn, Germany

Quantum gases of atoms, exciton-polaritons, and photons provide a test bed for many-body physics under both in- and out-of-equilibrium settings. Experimental control over their dimensionality, potential energy landscapes, or the coupling to reservoirs offers wide possibilities to explore phases of matter, for example, by probing susceptibilities, as the compressibility. For gases of material particles, such studies of the mechanical response are well established, in fields from classical thermodynamics to cold atomic quantum gases; for optical quantum gases, they have so far remained elusive. In my talk, I will discuss experimental work demonstrating a measurement of the compressibility of a two-dimensional quantum gas of photons in a box potential, from which we obtain the equation of state for the optical medium. The experiment is carried out in a nanostructured dye-filled optical microcavity. We observe signatures of Bose-Einstein condensation at large phase-space densities in the finite-size system. Upon entering the quantum degenerate regime, the density response to an external force sharply increases, hinting at the peculiar prediction of a highly compressible Bose gas. In other recent work, we have demonstrated a non-Hermitian phase transition of an open photon Bose-Einstein condensate, which is revealed by an exceptional point in the fluctuation dynamics.