Spin Many-Body Phases in Standard- and Topological-Waveguide QED Simulators

Waveguide QED has emerged as a powerful analog quantum simulator due to the possibility of mediating versatile spin-spin interactions with tunable sign, range, and even dimerization. Yet, despite their potential, the many-body phases emerging from these systems have only been scarcely explored. Here...

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Main Authors: M. Bello, G. Platero, A. González-Tudela
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2022-03-01
Series:PRX Quantum
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PRXQuantum.3.010336
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description Waveguide QED has emerged as a powerful analog quantum simulator due to the possibility of mediating versatile spin-spin interactions with tunable sign, range, and even dimerization. Yet, despite their potential, the many-body phases emerging from these systems have only been scarcely explored. Here, we characterize the many-body phases of a large class of spin models that can be obtained in such waveguide-QED simulators and uncover, importantly, the existence of symmetry-protected topological phases with large-period magnetic orderings with no analog in other state-of-art simulators. We explain that these phases emerge from the unique combination of long-range and dimerized interactions appearing in these platforms and propose several experimental observables to characterize them. Finally, we also develop an adiabatic protocol to prepare such states and analyze its performance with the main decoherence source of these systems.
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spelling doaj.art-5d1d9dda563d4ccb92443f8d821441dc2022-12-21T18:35:12ZengAmerican Physical SocietyPRX Quantum2691-33992022-03-013101033610.1103/PRXQuantum.3.010336Spin Many-Body Phases in Standard- and Topological-Waveguide QED SimulatorsM. BelloG. PlateroA. González-TudelaWaveguide QED has emerged as a powerful analog quantum simulator due to the possibility of mediating versatile spin-spin interactions with tunable sign, range, and even dimerization. Yet, despite their potential, the many-body phases emerging from these systems have only been scarcely explored. Here, we characterize the many-body phases of a large class of spin models that can be obtained in such waveguide-QED simulators and uncover, importantly, the existence of symmetry-protected topological phases with large-period magnetic orderings with no analog in other state-of-art simulators. We explain that these phases emerge from the unique combination of long-range and dimerized interactions appearing in these platforms and propose several experimental observables to characterize them. Finally, we also develop an adiabatic protocol to prepare such states and analyze its performance with the main decoherence source of these systems.http://doi.org/10.1103/PRXQuantum.3.010336
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title Spin Many-Body Phases in Standard- and Topological-Waveguide QED Simulators
title_full Spin Many-Body Phases in Standard- and Topological-Waveguide QED Simulators
title_fullStr Spin Many-Body Phases in Standard- and Topological-Waveguide QED Simulators
title_full_unstemmed Spin Many-Body Phases in Standard- and Topological-Waveguide QED Simulators
title_short Spin Many-Body Phases in Standard- and Topological-Waveguide QED Simulators
title_sort spin many body phases in standard and topological waveguide qed simulators
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