Opto-mechanical effects in self-organization of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical cavity

TL;DR

This paper investigates how mirror motion affects the self-organization of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical cavity, revealing that mirror dynamics can hinder self-organization and that external phonon pumping can alter the critical conditions for this process.

Contribution

It introduces the impact of mirror motion on BEC self-organization and demonstrates how external phonon pumping can modify the critical parameters for self-organization.

Findings

Mirror motion tends to destroy BEC self-organization.

External phonon pump modifies the critical photon pump.

Mirror dynamics influence the onset of self-organization.

Abstract

The influence of mirror motion on the spatial self organization of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in an optical cavity is studied. We show that the mirror dynamics tends to destroy the process of self organization. An additional external phonon pump is shown to modify the critical photon pump needed to observe the onset of self organization.