Giant critical response in a driven-dissipative quantum gas

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11230v1
• Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 20:45:34 GMT
• Title: Giant critical response in a driven-dissipative quantum gas
• Abstract summary: We study the critical slowing of spontaneous intensity fluctuations and the amplification of weak pump perturbations.<n>A single weakly damped collective photon-reservoir mode governs both effects.<n>This fluctuation-response correspondence in a finite open quantum gas establishes critical susceptibility as a measurable dynamical signature of condensation.
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• Abstract: Systems close to a phase transition turn weak perturbations into large responses. At equilibrium, this amplification is closely linked to criticality: fluctuations grow, dynamics slow, and a common soft mode controls the response. Whether this correspondence survives in driven-dissipative quantum systems, sustained by continuous pumping and loss away from thermal equilibrium, remains an open question. Here we show experimentally that it does. In a room-temperature semiconductor photon Bose-Einstein condensate, the critical slowing of spontaneous intensity fluctuations and the amplification of weak pump perturbations are measured independently. Both peak at the same condensate population, $\bar{n}_c = 1250$, where the dimensionless slowing factor and susceptibility reach the same value, $\bar{n}_c/2 = 625$. A single weakly damped collective photon-reservoir mode governs both effects. This fluctuation-response correspondence in a finite open quantum gas establishes critical susceptibility as a measurable dynamical signature of condensation, with peak gain set by system size.

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