We theoretically demonstrate tunable population transfer and entanglement generation in a two-exciton system coupled to a bimodal optical cavity, including an exciton-exciton exchange interaction. By using dressed-state transformations and Löwdin partitioning, we derive effective Hamiltonians that identify three dynamical time scales: local polaritonic oscillations, long-period dressed-state beats, and direct excitonic exchange. We apply the framework to graphene nanoribbon excitons, using excitonic energies, transition dipoles, and lifetimes obtained from first-principles calculations to parameterize the model. In the small- and moderate-exchange regimes, the dynamics become multiscale, and the beat channel sustains sizable quantum entanglement over long dissipative time windows. In the large-exchange regime, the excitonic Hamiltonian dominates and drives nearly complete population transfer between excitonic states over many coherent cycles. The resulting analytical expressions provide direct design rules connecting the beat period, transfer amplitude, and coherent-cycle number to the exchange interaction, cavity detuning, and light--matter coupling. Our results establish a controllable route for engineering long-lived entanglement and coherent excitonic operations in exciton--bimodal-cavity systems.
We theoretically demonstrate tunable population transfer and entanglement generation in a two-exciton system coupled to a bimodal optical cavity, including an exciton-exciton exchange interaction. By using dressed-state transformations and Löwdin partitioning, we derive effective Hamiltonians that identify three dynamical time scales: local polaritonic oscillations, long-period dressed-state beats, and direct excitonic exchange. We apply the framework to graphene nanoribbon excitons, using excitonic energies, transition dipoles, and lifetimes obtained from first-principles calculations to parameterize the model. In the small- and moderate-exchange regimes, the dynamics become multiscale, and the beat channel sustains sizable quantum entanglement over long dissipative time windows. In the large-exchange regime, the excitonic Hamiltonian dominates and drives nearly complete population transfer between excitonic states over many coherent cycles. The resulting analytical expressions provide direct design rules connecting the beat period, transfer amplitude, and coherent-cycle number to the exchange interaction, cavity detuning, and light--matter coupling. Our results establish a controllable route for engineering long-lived entanglement and coherent excitonic operations in exciton--bimodal-cavity systems.
Abstract Coupling of quantum emitters in a semiconductor relies, generally, on short-range dipole-dipole or electronic exchange type interactions. Consistently, energy transfer between exciton states, that is, electron-hole pairs bound by Coulomb interaction, is limited to distances of the order of 10 nm. Here, we demonstrate polariton-mediated coupling and energy transfer between excitonic states over a distance exceeding 2 μm. We accomplish this by coupling quantum well-confined excitons through the delocalized mode of two coupled optical microcavities. Use of magnetically doped quantum wells enables us to tune the confined exciton energy by the magnetic field and in this way to control the spatial direction of the transfer. Such controlled, long-distance interaction between coherently coupled quantum emitters opens possibilities of a scalable implementation of quantum networks and quantum simulators based on solid-state, multi-cavity systems.
The on-demand selective population transfer between states in multilevel quantum systems is a challenging problem with implications for a wide-range of physical platforms including photon and exciton-polariton Bose- Einstein condensates (BECs). Here, we introduce an universal strategy for this selective transfer based on a strong time-periodic energy modulation, which is experimentally demonstrated by using a GHz acoustic wave to control the gain and loss of confined modes of an exciton-polariton BEC in a microcavity. The harmonic acoustic field shifts the energy of the excitonic BEC component relative to the photonic ones, which generates a dynamic population transfer within a multimode BEC that can be controlled by the acoustic amplitude. In this way, the full BEC population can be selectively transferred to the ground state to yield a single-level emission consisting of a spectral frequency comb with GHz repetition rates as well as picosecond-scale correlations. A theoretical model reproduces the observed time evolution and reveals a dynamical interplay between bosonic stimulation and the adiabatic Landau-Zener-like population transfer. Our approach provides a new avenue for the Floquet engineering of light-matter systems and enables tunable single- or multi-wavelength ultrafast pulsed laser-like emission for novel information technologies.
Abstract We propose leveraging strong and ultrastrong light-matter coupling to efficiently generate and exchange nonclassical light and quantum matter states. Two initial conditions are considered: (a) a displaced quadrature-squeezed matter state, and (b) a coherent state in a cavity. In both scenarios, polaritons mediate the dynamical generation and transfer of nonclassical states between light and matter. By monitoring the dynamics of both subsystems, we uncover the emergence of cavity-induced beatings in the collective matter oscillations. The beating period depends on the particle density through the vacuum Rabi splitting and peaks sharply under light-matter resonance conditions. For initial condition (a), nonclassicality is efficiently transferred from matter to photons under strong and ultrastrong coupling. However, for initial condition (b), nonclassical photonic states are generated only in the ultrastrong coupling regime due to the counter-rotating terms, highlighting the advantages of ultrastrong coupling. Furthermore, in the ultrastrong coupling regime, distinctive asymmetries relative to cavity detuning emerge in dynamical observables of both light and matter. The nonclassical photons can be extracted through a semi-transparent cavity mirror, while nonclassical matter states can be detected via time-resolved spectroscopy. This work highlights that polariton states may serve as a tool for dynamically generating and transferring nonclassical states, with potential applications in quantum technology.
In this work, we investigate the emergence and control of genuine tripartite entanglement in a hybrid cavity quantum electrodynamics architecture consisting of two linearly coupled single mode resonators, one of which interacts coherently with a two level atom. An analytical framework is developed in a weak driving regime, where the system dynamically supports a delocalized hybrid excitation shared by the two photonic modes and the atomic degree of freedom. Tripartite concurrence fill has been used to characterize and identify parameter regimes of maximal multipartite quantum correlation that can be generated in this model. Additionally, we demonstrate how dissipative rates and detuning asymmetries govern the conversion of bipartite entanglement into a genuinely tripartite state, establishing a controllable transition from localized Jaynes Cummings correlations to delocalized photonic atomic entanglement networks. These findings outline a clear route to engineering steady state multipartite quantum resources in coupled cavity QED platforms, with direct relevance to quantum networking, distributed quantum information processing, and photonic state routing in scalable quantum architectures.
We investigate the entanglement dynamics of systems consisting of up to five qubits coupled to an optical microcavity. This is depicted by a system of excitons in strained graphene. We numerically calculate the time evolution of multiple entanglement monotones in such systems when subjected to a coherent source of photons (e.g., a laser). We propose a different way of estimating the total amount of quantum entanglement contained within a multipartite system based on the negativity which we refer to as total negativity, and to which we give clear upper and lower bounds for this quantity. We compared the results for a system of excitons in strained graphene along with two other systems which can be described by the same Hamiltonian as that for superconducting qubits coupled to a waveguide, and for trapped Rb atoms. We have shown that, depending on the physical parameters of the system, a reasonable amount of long-living entanglement can be created between the qubits. This entanglement is exempt from decay as long as the systems are being continuously pumped with coherent photons. We have reached the interesting conclusion that freely adding new qubits to the system does not, in general, increase the overall amount of entanglement created by the dynamics: there exist an optimum number of system qubits which depend on the Rabi coupling as well as the cavity decay rate for maximal entanglement. We believe that such systems are good candidates for the generation of resilient sets of long-lived partially entangled states suitable for experiments in entanglement distillation.
In an optical cavity, strong light-matter coupling between excitons and photons has been widely reported as a way to enhance energy delocalization through spatially extended polaritonic states. In contrast, leveraging cavity-mediated light-matter effects to promote the reciprocal phenomenon, namely, energy localization, remains largely underexplored. In the present work, we address this question by focusing on a special form of energy localization arising from nonlinear matter interactions: quantum self-trapping (QST). We employ a generalized Tavis-Cummings model to investigate the transport of vibrational excitons, i.e., vibrons, between two anharmonic vibrational modes and examine their interplay with cavity photons. In the absence of a cavity, the arising of true and complete QST, i.e., a fully stabilized localization, is not possible due to the symmetry of the system. The energy transfer between the two modes still occurs, slowed down by the many-body interactions. Coupling the system to a single-mode cavity strongly alters this behavior, with two emerging regimes. First, at weak light-matter coupling, destructive interference between newly opened transition pathways suppresses energy exchange, leading to cavity-enhanced self-trapping. As the coupling strength increases, these interference effects evolve, leading to cavity-assisted energy transfer, where we observe an acceleration of the vibrational energy flow. Most notably, we identify critical coupling strengths that separate both regimes in which the dynamics almost totally freeze, suggesting the arising of a “stabilized” light-induced QST of many-vibron bound states. These results suggest that optical cavities can not only enhance transport but could also stabilize energy localization phenomena, providing a route to control energy flow in quantum systems.