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Observation of the diffusive Nambu-Goldstone mode of a non-equilibrium phase transition

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Second-order phase transitions are governed by spontaneous symmetry breaking, which yield collective excitations with a gapless spectrum called Nambu-Goldstone (NG) modes. While NG modes in conservative systems are propagating excitations, non-equilibrium phase transitions have been predicted to feature a diffusive NG mode. We present the first experimental evidence of a diffusive NG mode in a non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensate of microcavity polaritons. The NG mode is observed as a spectral narrowing in the spectroscopic response of the condensate. Additionally, explicitly breaking the symmetry causes the opening of a gap in the spectrum and the disappearance of the NG mode. Our observations confirm the diffusive dynamics of the NG mode of non-equilibrium phase transitions and establish a promising framework to investigate fundamental questions in statistical mechanics.

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hal-04267755 , version 1 (02-11-2023)

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Ferdinand Claude, Maxime J Jacquet, Michiel Wouters, Elisabeth Giacobino, Quentin Glorieux, et al.. Observation of the diffusive Nambu-Goldstone mode of a non-equilibrium phase transition. 2023. ⟨hal-04267755⟩
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