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Published on: November 30, 2012
Noncritical Slowing Down of Photonic Condensation
Benjamin T Walker1,2, Henry J Hesten1,2, Himadri S Dhar1
1Physics Department, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
We investigate the response of a photonic gas interacting with a reservoir of pumped dye molecules to quenches in the pump power. In addition to the expected dramatic critical slowing down of the equilibration time around phase transitions, we find extremely slow equilibration even far away from phase transitions. This noncritical slowing down can be accounted for quantitatively by fierce competition among cavity modes for access to the molecular environment, and we provide a quantitative explanation for this noncritical slowing down.
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