title: Self-organization in cold atomic gases: a synchronization perspective.
abstract: We study non-equilibrium spatial self-organization in cold atomic gases, where long-range spatial order spontaneously emerges from fluctuations in the plane transverse to the propagation axis of a single optical beam. The self-organization process can be interpreted as a synchronization transition in a fully connected network of fictitious oscillators, and described in terms of the Kuramoto model.
authors.affiliation: SUPA and Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, 107 Rottenrow East, Glasgow G4 0NG, UK.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tesio
authors.affiliation: SUPA and Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, 107 Rottenrow East, Glasgow G4 0NG, UK g.r.m.robb@strath.ac.uk.
authors.forename: G R M
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Robb
authors.affiliation: SUPA and Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, 107 Rottenrow East, Glasgow G4 0NG, UK.
authors.forename: G-L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Oppo
authors.affiliation: SUPA and Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, 107 Rottenrow East, Glasgow G4 0NG, UK.
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Gomes
authors.affiliation: SUPA and Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, 107 Rottenrow East, Glasgow G4 0NG, UK.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ackemann
authors.affiliation: Institut Non Linéaire de Nice, UMR 7335 CNRS, 1361 route des Lucioles, 06560 Valbonne, France.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Labeyrie
authors.affiliation: Institut Non Linéaire de Nice, UMR 7335 CNRS, 1361 route des Lucioles, 06560 Valbonne, France.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kaiser
authors.affiliation: SUPA and Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, 107 Rottenrow East, Glasgow G4 0NG, UK.
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Firth
keywords: Kuramoto model; cold atoms; long-range interactions; optomechanics; self-organization