



@article {2269,
	title = {Bose Condensation of Photons Thermalized via Laser Cooling of Atoms},
	year = {2018},
	abstract = {<p>A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is a quantum phase of matter achieved at low temperatures. Photons, one of the most prominent species of bosons, do not typically condense due to the lack of a particle number-conservation. We recently described a photon thermalization mechanism which gives rise to a grand canonical ensemble of light with effective photon number conservation between a subsystem and a particle reservoir. This mechanism occurs during Doppler laser cooling of atoms where the atoms serve as a temperature reservoir while the cooling laser photons serve as a particle reservoir. Here we address the question of the possibility of a BEC of photons in this laser cooling photon thermalization scenario and theoretically demonstrate that a Bose condensation of photons can be realized by cooling an ensemble of two-level atoms (realizable with alkaline earth atoms) inside a Fabry-Perot cavity.</p>},
	url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07777},
	author = {Chiao-Hsuan Wang and Michael Gullans and J. V. Porto and William D. Phillips and J. M. Taylor}
}
