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Ghost State of Light

C. Toebes, Jan Klars, R. M. de Boer, S. R. K. Rodriguez

A single-mode optical cavity sustains a ghost state of light with lifetimes exceeding the photon lifetime by over ten orders of magnitude.

arxiv:2605.13584 v1 · 2026-05-13 · physics.optics · cond-mat.mes-hall · cond-mat.stat-mech

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C1strongest claim

We report the observation of a long-lived non-stationary state of light in a single-mode optical cavity... lifetimes exceeding the cavity photon lifetime by more than ten orders of magnitude, even in the presence of strong fluctuations.

C2weakest assumption

That the observed plateau in cavity transmission relaxation is produced by the ghost of the saddle-node bifurcation, accessed specifically because the nonlinear response possesses memory that steers trajectories into the bottleneck.

C3one line summary

Experimental observation of ghost states from saddle-node bifurcations in an optical cavity, with lifetimes exceeding the photon lifetime by over ten orders of magnitude via nonlinear response with memory.

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[1] Goldenfeld,Lectures on phase transitions and the renormalization group(CRC Press, 2018) 2018

[2] W. H. Zurek, U. Dorner, and P. Zoller, Dynamics of a quantum phase transition, Phys. Rev. Lett.95, 105701 (2005) 2005

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[5] N. Navon, A. L. Gaunt, R. P. Smith, and Z. Hadzibabic, Critical dynamics of spontaneous symmetry breaking in a homogeneous bose gas, Science347, 167 (2015) 2015

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arxiv: 2605.13584 · arxiv_version: 2605.13584v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.13584 · pith_short_12: EVIXW7PK4JHA · pith_short_16: EVIXW7PK4JHA3JVB · pith_short_8: EVIXW7PK

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