{
  "id": "cond-mat/0604242",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2006-04-10T08:45:32.000Z",
  "updated": "2006-09-12T16:43:42.000Z",
  "title": "Glassy behavior of light in random lasers",
  "authors": [
    "Luca Angelani",
    "Claudio Conti",
    "Giancarlo Ruocco",
    "Francesco Zamponi"
  ],
  "comment": "21 pages, 3 figures. Revised and enlarged version. To be published in Physical Review B",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. B 74, 104207 (2006)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.74.104207",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.dis-nn",
    "cond-mat.other",
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "nlin.CD",
    "physics.optics"
  ],
  "abstract": "A theoretical analysis [Angelani et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 065702 (2006)] predicts glassy behaviour of light in a nonlinear random medium. This implies slow dynamics related to the presence of many metastable states. We consider very general equations (that also apply to other systems, like Bose-Condensed gases) describing light in a disordered non-linear medium and through some approximations we relate them to a mean-field spin-glass-like model. The model is solved by the replica method, and replica-symmetry breaking phase transition is predicted. The transition describes a mode-locking process in which the phases of the modes are locked to random (history and sample-dependent) values. The results are based on very general theory, and embrace a variety of physical phenomena.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2006-09-12T16:43:42.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "random lasers",
      "glassy behavior",
      "replica-symmetry breaking phase transition",
      "nonlinear random medium",
      "predicts glassy behaviour"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. B"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 21,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}