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Dissipative Phase Transition in Systems with Two-Photon Drive and Nonlinear Dissipation near the Critical Point
Valentin Yu Mylnikov1,2, Sergey O Potashin1, Grigorii S Sokolovskii1,2
1Ioffe Institute, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia.
Abstract:
In this paper, we examine dissipative phase transition (DPT) near the critical point for a system with two-photon driving and nonlinear dissipations. The proposed mean-field theory, which explicitly takes into account quantum fluctuations, allowed us to describe properly the evolutionary dynamics of the system and to demonstrate new effects in its steady-state. We show that the presence of quantum fluctuations leads to a power-law dependence of the anomalous average at the phase transition point, with which the critical exponent is associated. Also, we investigate the effect of the quantum fluctuations on the critical point renormalization and demonstrate the existence of a two-photon pump "threshold". It is noteworthy that the obtained results are in a good agreement with the numerical simulations.
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