Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2002-04-12
Solid State Commun. 124, 103 (2002)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0038-1098(02)00453-2
We study a model of a photon mode dipole-coupled to a medium of two-level oscillators in a microcavity in the presence of dephasing processes introduced by coupling to external baths. Decoherence processes can be classified as pair-breaking or non-pair-breaking in analogy with magnetic or non-magnetic impurities in superconductors. In the absence of dephasing, the ground state of the model is a polariton condensate with a gap in the excitation spectrum. Increase of the pair-breaking parameter $\gamma$ reduces the gap, which becomes zero at a critical value $\gamma_{C1}$; for large $\gamma$, the conventional laser regime is obtained in a way that demonstrates its close analogy to a gapless superconductor. In contrast, weak non-pair-breaking processes have no qualitative effect on the condensate or the existence of a gap, although they lead to inhomogeneous broadening of the excitations.
Littlewood Peter B.
Szymanska Marzena H.
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