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arXiv:1904.05258 · Physical Review A

Two-photon Rabi-Hubbard and Jaynes-Cummings-Hubbard models: Photon-pair superradiance, Mott insulator, and normal phases

Shifeng Cui, F. Hébert, Benoît Grémaud, V. G. Rousseau, Wenan Guo, G. G. Batrouni

Published Sep 9, 2019• 14 citations
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Abstract

We study the ground-state phase diagrams of two-photon Dicke, one-dimensional Jaynes-Cummings-Hubbard (JCH), and Rabi-Hubbard (RH) models using mean-field, perturbation, quantum Monte Carlo (QMC), and density-matrix renormalization-group methods. We first compare mean-field predictions for the phase diagram of the Dicke model with exact QMC results and find excellent agreement. The phase diagram of the JCH model is then shown to exhibit a single Mott insulator lobe with two excitons per site, a superfluid (SF, superradiant) phase and a large region of instability where the Hamiltonian becomes unbounded. Unlike the one-photon model, there are no higher Mott lobes. Also, unlike the one-photon case, the SF phases above and below the Mott lobe are surprisingly different: Below the Mott lobe, the SF consists of photon pairs as opposed to above the Mott lobe, where it is SF of simple photons. The mean-field phase diagram of the RH model predicts a transition from a normal to a superradiant phase but none is found with QMC.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.100.033608

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The density matrix renormalization group algorithm is used to characterize the ground states of one-dimensional coupled cavities in the regime of low photon densities. Numerical results for photon and spin excitation densities, one- and two-body correlation functions, superfluid and condensate fractions, as well as the entanglement entropy and localizable entanglement are obtained for the Jaynes-Cummings-Hubbard (JCH) model and are compared with those for the Bose-Hubbard (BH) model where applicable. The results indicate that a Tonks-Girardeau phase, in which the photons are strongly fermionized, appears between the Mott-insulating and superfluid phases as a function of the intercavity coupling. In fact, the superfluid density is found to be zero in a wide region outside the Mott-insulator phase boundary. The presence of two different species of excitation (spin and photon) in the JCH model gives rise to properties with no analog in the BH model, such as the (quasi)condensation of spin excitations and the spontaneous generation of entanglement between the atoms confined to each cavity.
In this paper, we investigate systematically the quantum phase transition between the Mott-insulator and superfluid states of the Jaynes–Cummings Hubbard model in triangular, square, honeycomb and kagomé lattices. With the help of Green's function method, by treating the hopping term in the Jaynes–Cummings Hubbard model as perturbation, we calculate the phase boundaries of Jaynes–Cummings Hubbard models on different geometrical lattices analytically up to second order for both detuning and . It is shown that the Mott phase becomes more unstable when increasing the polariton number n . Meanwhile, the Mott lobe of n = 0 is enlarged while other Mott lobes shrink as the detuning parameter increases.