Calorimetry of a Bose–Einstein-condensed photon gas

Phase transitions are often revealed by a discontinuous behaviour of thermodynamic quantities. Here, the authors study the thermodynamic behaviour of a trapped 2D photon gas, revealing critical behaviour at the phase transition through a cusp singularity of the specific heat.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tobias Damm, Julian Schmitt, Qi Liang, David Dung, Frank Vewinger, Martin Weitz, Jan Klaers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11340