Abstract
The key to understanding the universal behaviour of systems driven away from equilibrium lies in the common description obtained when particular microscopic models are reduced to order parameter equations. Universal order parameter equations written for complex matter fields are widely used to describe systems as different as Bose-Einstein condensates of ultra cold atomic gases, thermal convection, nematic liquid crystals, lasers and other nonlinear systems. Exciton-polariton condensates recently realised in semiconductor microcavities are pattern forming systems that lie somewhere between equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensates and lasers. Because of the imperfect confinement of the photon component, exciton-polaritons have a finite lifetime, and have to be continuously re-populated. As photon confinement improves, the system more closely approximates an equilibrium system. In this chapter we review a number of universal equations which describe various regimes of the dynamics of exciton-polariton condensates: the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, which models weakly interacting equilibrium condensates, the complex Ginsburg-Landau equation—the universal equation that describes the behaviour of systems in the vicinity of a symmetry-breaking instability, and the complex Swift-Hohenberg equation that in comparison with the complex Ginsburg-Landau equation contains additional nonlocal terms responsible for spatial mode selection. All these equations can be derived asymptotically from a generic laser model given by Maxwell-Bloch equations. Such an universal framework allows the unified treatment of various systems and allows one to continuously cross from one system to another. We discuss the relevance of these equations, and their consequences for pattern formation.
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Some care must be taken since the operator \(\mathcal{L}\) is not self adjoint and so the left and right eigenstates of \(\mathcal{L}^{(0)}\) must be found separately. This is easiest if one replaces the variable φ by u r =∂ r φ,u θ =(1/r)∂ θ φ=(is/r)φ, in this case the right eigenstates (h,u r ,u θ ) corresponds to the right eigenstate (h,2ρu r ,2ρu θ ).
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Berloff, N.G., Keeling, J. (2013). Universality in Modelling Non-equilibrium Pattern Formation in Polariton Condensates. In: Bramati, A., Modugno, M. (eds) Physics of Quantum Fluids. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 177. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37569-9_2
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