Seminars and Colloquia
Physics
Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) of Photons: Challenges and Experiments
Thu, Jan 28, 2016,
03:00 PM to 04:00 PM
at Seminar Room No. 31, Second Floor, A Wing, Main Building
Mr Amit Bhunia
Ph D Student, Phyiscs Department, IISER Pune
Although the theoretical proposition of BEC of bosonic particles was established around 1924, still it took almost seven decades to experimentally observe the atomic BEC only. Photon is a mass less bosonic particle. Therefore, it is to obvious ask - Do photons undergo BEC? What are the experimental challenges to observe the BEC of mass less photons? A recent work showed how photon BEC is experimentally realizable by confining photons inside a dye filled microcavity. We will discuss the critical issues of light-matter interactions in observing photon BEC in a pedagogical fashion.
