Quantum Many-Body Dynamics of Driven-Dissipative Rydberg Polaritons
Abstract
We study the propagation of strongly interacting Rydberg polaritons through an atomic medium in a one-dimensional optical lattice. We derive an effective single-band Hubbard model to describe the dynamics of the dark-state polaritons under realistic assumptions. Within this model, we analyze the driven-dissipative transport of polaritons through the system by considering a coherent drive on one side and by including the spontaneous emission of the metastable Rydberg state. Using a variational approach to solve the many-body problem, we find strong antibunching of the outgoing photons despite the losses from the Rydberg state decay.
Details
- Organisation(s)
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Institute of Theoretical Physics
QuantumFrontiers
CRC 1227 Designed Quantum States of Matter (DQ-mat)
- Type
- Article
- Journal
- Physical review letters
- Volume
- 125
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- Publication date
- 30.12.2020
- Publication status
- Published
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Physics and Astronomy
- Electronic version(s)
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2003.10463 (Access:
Open
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.263604 (Access: Closed )
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