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F. Helluin

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arXiv2026

Crossing over universal scaling laws in two-dimensional driven dissipative condensates

In low dimensional systems, fluctuations are enhanced and prevent the spontaneous breaking of continuous symmetries. As a result, spatial and temporal correlation functions decay at large distances and long times. A well established example is given by two-dimensional bosonic condensates at equilibrium, which do not display long-range order of the coherence but algebraic decay belonging to the Berezinski-Kosterlitz-Thouless universality class. In contrast, the universal behaviors of non-equilibrium bosonic condensates are more diverse and many open questions remain. Here, we explore the spatio-temporal coherence properties of two-dimensional driven-dissipative polariton condensates in semiconductor optical microcavities. By tuning microscopic parameters, we observe a cross-over between two scaling laws that we attribute to the Edwards-Wilkinson (EW) and the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality classes. We demonstrate the collapse of the measured first-order correlations onto the EW and KPZ universal scaling functions and obtain critical exponents, well matching the values predicted theoretically. Our results highlight the intrinsic non-equilibrium nature of polariton condensates and establish them as a platform of choice for controlled exploration of the two-dimensional KPZ universality class.

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arXiv2026

Comment on "Observation of Kardar--Parisi--Zhang universal scaling in two dimensions"

In their paper published in Science 392, 221 (2026), Widmann and collaborators reported interferometry experiments to explore the emission coherence decay of a two-dimensional polariton condensate generated in an array of coupled resonators. The authors claim evidence of Kardar--Parisi--Zhang (KPZ) universal scaling in the measured spatio-temporal coherence decay. We argue in the following that the data were not properly analyzed. We re-analyze the experimental data acquired both with the square and the triangular lattices for various values of the excitation power. Instead of stretched exponential decays, in the space (time) windows considered in the paper we find that the measured $|g^{(1)}(\delta {\bf r}, \delta t)|$ at $\delta t=0$ ($|\delta {\bf r}| $ close to $0$) rather show Gaussian (exponential) decay for all excitation powers. As a result, using as temporal and spatial exponents $\beta=0.5$ and $\chi=1$, the data for all pump powers are found to collapse onto a single curve, which is not the KPZ scaling function. In particular, we show that the data collapse onto the KPZ scaling function presented in the paper is an artifact stemming from incorrect data normalization. We thus conclude that the main claim of the paper is not justified as the spatio-temporal decays of the coherence over the space-time windows analyzed in the paper are not well described by the KPZ universal behavior.

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