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Quantum Many-Body Phenomena in Coupled Cavity Arrays

Hartmann, MJ, Brandão, FGSL, Martin Bodo Plenio

Published Aug 19, 2008• 274 citations
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Abstract

The increasing level of experimental control over atomic and optical systems gained in recent years has paved the way for the exploration of new physical regimes in quantum optics and atomic physics, characterised by the appearance of quantum many-body phenomena, originally encountered only in condensed-matter physics, and the possibility of experimentally accessing them in a more controlled manner. In this review article we survey recent theoretical studies concerning the use of cavity quantum electrodynamics to create quantum many-body systems. Based on recent experimental progress in the fabrication of arrays of interacting micro-cavities and on their coupling to atomic-like structures in several different physical architectures, we review proposals on the realisation of paradigmatic many-body models in such systems, such as the Bose-Hubbard and the anisotropic Heisenberg models. Such arrays of coupled cavities offer interesting properties as simulators of quantum many-body physics, including the full addressability of individual sites and the accessibility of inhomogeneous models. © 2008 by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

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Abstract The increasing level of experimental control over atomic and optical systems gained in recent years has paved the way for the exploration of new physical regimes in quantum optics and atomic physics, characterised by the appearance of quantum many‐body phenomena, originally encountered only in condensed‐matter physics, and the possibility of experimentally accessing them in a more controlled manner. In this review article we survey recent theoretical studies concerning the use of cavity quantum electrodynamics to create quantum many‐body systems. Based on recent experimental progress in the fabrication of arrays of interacting micro‐cavities and on their coupling to atomic‐like structures in several different physical architectures, we review proposals on the realisation of paradigmatic many‐body models in such systems, such as the Bose‐Hubbard and the anisotropic Heisenberg models. Such arrays of coupled cavities offer interesting properties as simulators of quantum many‐body physics, including the full addressability of individual sites and the accessibility of inhomogeneous models.
Recent experimental progress in cavity quantum‐electrodynamics has lead to the fabrication of arrays of coupled cavities, which could be employed to create strongly correlated many‐body systems, when operated in the strong coupling regime. In this work, we show that two models of interest to both, condensed matter physics and quantum information science, namely the Bose‐Hubbard model and the anisotropic Heisenberg model (XYZ‐model), could be realized in such systems with present or near future experimental capabilities.We also discuss the feasibility of realizing a Mott‐insulator of photons in such systems. Crucial for this proposal is the possibility of creating very strong photonic Kerr nonlinearities, several oders of magnitude larger than previously considered feasible. We show how this could be achieved with the setting based on electromagnetically induced transparency and with a new scheme, which is experimentally less demanding than the former.
The experimental observation of quantum phenomena in strongly correlated many particle systems is difficult because of the short length- and timescales involved. Obtaining at the same time detailed control of individual constituents appears even more challenging and thus to date inhibits employing such systems as quantum information processing devices. Substantial progress to overcome these problems has been achieved with cold atoms in optical lattices, where a detailed control of collective properties is feasible. However it is very difficult to address and hence control or measure individual sites [1, 2]. In this work, we demonstrate that polaritons, combined atom and photon excitations, in an array of cavities can form a strongly interacting many body system [3]. This scheme has several advantages: First of all, individual particles can, by construction, be controlled and measured. In contrast to optical lattices, it therefore allows to create inhomogeneous systems where different phases may coexists in adjacent spatial regions. Finally not only an effective Bose- Hubbard Hamiltonian might be created but several different many body systems including spin chains.
We review the recent developments and the current status in the field of quantum-gas cavity QED. Since the first experimental demonstration of atomic self-ordering in a system composed of a Bose–Einstein condensate coupled to a quantized electromagnetic mode of a high-Q optical cavity, the field has rapidly evolved over the past decade. The composite quantum-gas-cavity systems offer the opportunity to implement, simulate, and experimentally test fundamental solid-state Hamiltonians, as well as to realize non-equilibrium many-body phenomena beyond conventional condensed-matter scenarios. This hinges on the unique possibility to design and control in open quantum environments photon-induced tunable-range interaction potentials for the atoms using tailored pump lasers and dynamic cavity fields. Notable examples range from Hubbard-like models with long-range interactions exhibiting a lattice-supersolid phase, over emergent magnetic orderings and quasicrystalline symmetries, to the appearance of dynamic gauge potentials and non-equilibrium topological phases. Experiments have managed to load spin-polarized as well as spinful quantum gases into various cavity geometries and engineer versatile tunable-range atomic interactions. This led to the experimental observation of spontaneous discrete and continuous symmetry breaking with the appearance of soft-modes as well as supersolidity, density and spin self-ordering, dynamic spin-orbit coupling, and non-equilibrium dynamical self-ordered phases among others. In addition, quantum-gas-cavity setups offer new platforms for quantum-enhanced measurements. In this review, starting from an introduction to basic models, we pedagogically summarize a broad range of theoretical developments and put them in perspective with the current and near future state-of-art experiments.
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