Nucleation of superfluid-light domains in a quenched dynamics
Abstract
Strong correlation effects emerge from light-matter interactions in coupled resonator arrays, such as the Mott-insulator to superfluid phase transition of atom-photon excitations. We demonstrate that the quenched dynamics of a finite-sized complex array of coupled resonators induces a first-order like phase transition. The latter is accompanied by domain nucleation that can be used to manipulate the photonic transport properties of the emerging superfluid phase; this in turn leads to an empirical scaling law. This universal behavior emerges from the light-matter interaction and the topology of the array. The validity of our results over a wide range of complex architectures might lead to to a promising device for use in scaled quantum simulations.
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@article{arxiv.1802.00901,
title = {Nucleation of superfluid-light domains in a quenched dynamics},
author = {Joaquín Figueroa and José Rogan and Juan Alejandro Valdivia and Miguel Kiwi and Guillermo Romero and Felipe Torres},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.00901},
year = {2018}
}
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7 pages, 4 figures and supplemental material. Accepted by Scientific Reports