Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2003-03-19
Phys. Rev. A 68, 013818 (2003)
Physics
Condensed Matter
17 pages, 8 figures, submitted to PRA
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.68.013818
We explore the behaviour of a system which consists of a photon mode dipole coupled to a medium of two-level oscillators in a microcavity in the presence of decoherence. We consider two types of decoherence processes which are analogous to magnetic and non-magnetic impurities in superconductors. We study different phases of this system as the decoherence strength and the excitation density is changed. For a low decoherence we obtain a polariton condensate with comparable excitonic and photonic parts at low densities and a BCS-like state with bigger photon component due to the fermionic phase space filling effect at high densities. In both cases there is a large gap in the density of states. As the decoherence is increased the gap is broadened and suppressed, resulting in a gapless condensate and finally a suppression of the coherence in a low density regime and a laser at high density limit. A crossover between these regimes is studied in a self-consistent way analogous to the Abrikosov and Gor'kov theory of gapless superconductivity.
Littlewood Peter B.
Simons Benjamin D.
Szymanska Marzena H.
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