Optical Phase Transitions in Photonic Networks: a Spin-System Formulation

We investigate the collective dynamics of nonlinearly interacting modes in multimode photonic settings. To this end, we have established a connection with the theory of spin networks. The emerging “photonic spins” are complex, soft (their size is not fixed), and their dynamics has two constants of m...

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Main Authors: Alba Ramos, Lucas Fernández-Alcázar, Tsampikos Kottos, Boris Shapiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2020-07-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.10.031024