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A theory of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of light in a dye microcavity is developed. The photon polarization degeneracy and the interaction between dye molecules and photons in all of the cavity modes are taken into account. The theory goes beyond the grand canonical approximation and allows one to determine the statistical properties of the photon gas for all numbers of dye molecules and photons at all temperatures, thus describing the microscopic, mesoscopic, and macroscopic light BEC from a general perspective. A universal relation between the degrees of second-order coherence for the photon condensate and the polarized photon condensate is obtained. The photon Bose-Einstein condensate can be used as a new source of nonclassical light.
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Original Russian Text © D.N. Sob’yanin, 2013, published in Kratkie Soobshcheniya po Fizike, 2013, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 15–24.
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Sob’yanin, D.N. Theory of Bose-Einstein condensation of light in a microcavity. Bull. Lebedev Phys. Inst. 40, 91–96 (2013). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068335613040039
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