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Non-equilibrium condensation

State of the game

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Condensation usually describes a winner-takes-all phenomenon, in which a single state is macroscopically occupied. Game theory now reveals a mechanism for selecting an entire network of condensate states in a driven quantum system.

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Figure 1: The attractor of condensate states (pink circles), which become macroscopically occupied in the long-time limit, is spanned by states with a net inflow (dashed arrows) of particles from all other states (blue circles).

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