Self-organization in cold atomic gases: a synchronization perspective
2014 ◽
Vol 372
(2027)
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pp. 20140002
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Keyword(s):
The Self
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We study non-equilibrium spatial self-organization in cold atomic gases, where long-range spatial order spontaneously emerges from fluctuations in the plane transverse to the propagation axis of a single optical beam. The self-organization process can be interpreted as a synchronization transition in a fully connected network of fictitious oscillators, and described in terms of the Kuramoto model.