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Frontiers in Optics

Exploring Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions in a Strontium Cavity-QED System

Seth Hew Peng Chew, Eric Yilun Song, Dylan Young, Joyce Kwan, Zhijing Niu, Cameron Wagner, Vera M. Schäfer, S. Agarwal, Diego Barberena, Edwin Chaparro, Anjun Chu, Robert J. Lewis-Swan, Asier Piñeiro Orioli, Diego Fallas Padilla, David Wellnitz, Jeremy T. Young, Haoqing Zhang, Ana María Rey, James K. Thompson

Published Jan 1, 2025• 0 citations
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Abstract

Using a strontium cavity-QED apparatus, we first explore dynamical phases of BCS superconductors and perform time-resolved spectral gap spectroscopy. We also observe the continuous dissipation-induced superradiant transition in the cooperative resonance fluorescence (CRF) model.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2025.jw5a.49

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