The Goldstone mode of planar optical parametric oscillators

dc.creatorWouters, Michiel
dc.creatorCarusotto, Iacopo
dc.date2006-06-29
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dc.descriptionWe propose an experimental setup to probe the low-lying excitation modes of a parametrically oscillating planar cavity, in particular the soft Goldstone mode which appears as a consequence of the spontaneously broken U(1) symmetry of signal/idler phase rotations. Differently from the case of thermodynamical equilibrium, the Goldstone mode of such a driven-dissipative system is an overdamped mode, whose linewidth goes to zero in the long-wavelength limit. When the phase of the signal/idler emission is pinned by an additional laser beam in the vicinity of the signal emission, the U(1) symmetry is explicitely broken and a gap opens in the Goldstone mode dispersion. This results in a dramatic broadening of the response to the probe. Quantitative predictions are given for the case of semiconductor planar cavities in the strong exciton-photon coupling regime.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0606755
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0606755
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/112260
dc.subjectOther Condensed Matter
dc.titleThe Goldstone mode of planar optical parametric oscillators
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