Ryan Obermeyer : Gross-Pitaevskii-type Model for Exciton-Polariton Condensates

Posted by David Reynolds , part of the Graduate Analysis Seminar.

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Sept. 26, 2018, 4 p.m.

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1227 SEO

Abstract

Bose-Einstein condensation is an active, exciting area of modern physics. Though the phenomenon was predicted by Einstein in 1925, BECs were only first produced in experiments in 1995. A new type of condensate consisting of exciton-polariton quasi-particles has recently been studied along with the more classical BECs of ultracold atomic gases. In this talk I will discuss a non-equilibrium model of exciton-polariton condensates based on the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with an additional dissipative term.