Quantum many-body dynamics of driven-dissipative Rydberg polaritons
Quantum Physics
2021-01-04 v1 Quantum Gases
Atomic Physics
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 approch to solve the many-body problem, we find strong antibunching of the outgoing photons despite the losses from the Rydberg state decay.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2003.10463,
title = {Quantum many-body dynamics of driven-dissipative Rydberg polaritons},
author = {T. Pistorius and J. Kazemi and H. Weimer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.10463},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
5 pages, 5 figures