Photon-mediated correlated hopping in a synthetic ladder
We propose a different direction in quantum simulation that uses multilevel atoms in an optical cavity as a toolbox to engineer different types of bosonic models featuring correlated hopping processes in a synthetic ladder spanned by atomic ground states. The underlying mechanisms responsible for co...
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| author | Anjun Chu Asier Piñeiro Orioli Diego Barberena James K. Thompson Ana Maria Rey |
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| description | We propose a different direction in quantum simulation that uses multilevel atoms in an optical cavity as a toolbox to engineer different types of bosonic models featuring correlated hopping processes in a synthetic ladder spanned by atomic ground states. The underlying mechanisms responsible for correlated hopping are collective cavity-mediated interactions that dress a manifold of excited levels in the far-detuned limit. By weakly coupling the ground-state levels to these dressed states using two laser drives with appropriate detunings, one can engineer correlated hopping processes while suppressing undesired single-particle and collective shifts of the ground-state levels. We discuss the rich many-body dynamics that can be realized in the synthetic ladder including pair production processes, chiral transport, and light-cone correlation spreading. The latter illustrates that an effective notion of locality can be engineered in a system with fully collective interactions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f9278ef9252a487ea31634cd3348ecf32024-04-12T17:31:00ZengAmerican Physical SocietyPhysical Review Research2643-15642023-05-0152L02203410.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.L022034Photon-mediated correlated hopping in a synthetic ladderAnjun ChuAsier Piñeiro OrioliDiego BarberenaJames K. ThompsonAna Maria ReyWe propose a different direction in quantum simulation that uses multilevel atoms in an optical cavity as a toolbox to engineer different types of bosonic models featuring correlated hopping processes in a synthetic ladder spanned by atomic ground states. The underlying mechanisms responsible for correlated hopping are collective cavity-mediated interactions that dress a manifold of excited levels in the far-detuned limit. By weakly coupling the ground-state levels to these dressed states using two laser drives with appropriate detunings, one can engineer correlated hopping processes while suppressing undesired single-particle and collective shifts of the ground-state levels. We discuss the rich many-body dynamics that can be realized in the synthetic ladder including pair production processes, chiral transport, and light-cone correlation spreading. The latter illustrates that an effective notion of locality can be engineered in a system with fully collective interactions.http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.L022034 |
| spellingShingle | Anjun Chu Asier Piñeiro Orioli Diego Barberena James K. Thompson Ana Maria Rey Photon-mediated correlated hopping in a synthetic ladder Physical Review Research |
| title | Photon-mediated correlated hopping in a synthetic ladder |
| title_full | Photon-mediated correlated hopping in a synthetic ladder |
| title_fullStr | Photon-mediated correlated hopping in a synthetic ladder |
| title_full_unstemmed | Photon-mediated correlated hopping in a synthetic ladder |
| title_short | Photon-mediated correlated hopping in a synthetic ladder |
| title_sort | photon mediated correlated hopping in a synthetic ladder |
| url | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.L022034 |
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