# Generation and spectroscopic signatures of a fractional quantum Hall liquid of photons in an incoherently pumped optical cavity

@article{Umucalilar2017GenerationAS,
title={Generation and spectroscopic signatures of a fractional quantum Hall liquid of photons in an incoherently pumped optical cavity},
author={R. O. Umucalilar and I. Carusotto},
journal={Physical Review A},
year={2017},
volume={96}
}
• Published 2017
• Physics
• Physical Review A
We theoretically investigate a driven-dissipative model of strongly interacting photons in a nonlinear optical cavity in the presence of a synthetic magnetic field. We show the possibility of using a frequency-dependent incoherent pump to create a strongly-correlated $\nu = 1/2$ bosonic Laughlin state of light: thanks to the incompressibility of the Laughlin state, fluctuations in the total particle number and excitation of edge modes can be tamed by imposing a suitable external potential… Expand

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