Glassy behavior of light

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2005-11-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0511427v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 065702 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

5 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.065702

We study the nonlinear dynamics of a multi-mode random laser using the methods of statistical physics of disordered systems. A replica-symmetry breaking phase transition is predicted as a function of the pump intensity. We thus show that light propagating in a random non-linear medium displays glassy behavior, i.e. the photon gas has a multitude of metastable states and a non vanishing complexity, corresponding to mode-locking processes in random lasers. The present work reveals the existence of new physical phenomena, and demonstrates how nonlinear optics and random lasers can be a benchmark for the modern theory of complex systems and glasses.

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