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Open quantum Dicke models are paradigmatic systems for the investigation of light-matter interaction in out-of-equilibrium quantum settings. Albeit being structurally simple, these models can show intriguing physics. However, obtaining…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-15 Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky

We have developed a method to simulate quantum spin models with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) using Rydberg atom quantum simulators. Our approach involves a two-photon Raman transition and a transformation to the spin-rotating…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-12-02 Masaya Kunimi , Takafumi Tomita , Hosho Katsura , Yusuke Kato

Harnessing the interaction between light and matter at the quantum level has been a central theme in atomic physics and quantum optics, with applications from quantum computation to quantum metrology. Combining complex interactions with…

We propose a new quantum approach for describing a system of $n$ interacting particles with variable mass connected by an unknown field with variable form ($n$-VMVF systems). Instead of assuming any particular nature for variation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Israel A. González Medina

Simulation of the interaction of light with matter, including at the few-photon level, is important for understanding the optical and optoelectronic properties of materials, and for modeling next-generation non-linear spectroscopies that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Steve M. Young , Hartmut Häffner , Mohan Sarovar

The desire to understand the interaction between light and matter has stimulated centuries of research, leading to technological achievements that have shaped our world. One contemporary frontier of research into light-matter interaction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-17 Stephen C. Wein

The quantum mechanical many-body problem is rarely analytically solvable. One notable exception is the case of two electrons interacting via a Coulomb potential in a uniform magnetic field. The motion is confined to a two-dimensional plane,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-04 Tobias Kramer

We consider a generalized Jaynes-Cummings model of a two-level atom interacting with a multimode nondegenerate coherent field. The sum of the mode frequencies is equal to the two-level transition frequency, creating the resonance condition.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-24 Himadri Shekhar Dhar , Arpita Chatterjee , Rupamanjari Ghosh

Variational quantum metrology represents a powerful tool for optimizing generic estimation strategies, combining the principles of variational optimization with the techniques of quantum metrology. Such optimization procedures result…

In this work, we detail different approaches to treat multi-mode photonic environments within non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics in the long-wavelength approximation efficiently. Specifically we show that for equilibrium properties of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Davis M. Welakuh , Vasil Rokaj , Michael Ruggenthaler , Angel Rubio

We introduce a variational hybrid classical-quantum algorithm to simulate the Lindblad master equation and its adjoint for time-evolving Markovian open quantum systems and quantum observables. Our method is based on a direct representation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-19 Tasneem Watad , Netanel H. Lindner

We compare the semiclassical and quantum predictions for the unitary dynamics of a two-level atom interacting with a single-mode electromagnetic field in the presence of parametric modulation of the atomic parameters, in the regime of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 M V S de Paula , M A Damasceno Faustino , A V Dodonov

One of the key applications for the emerging quantum simulators is to emulate the ground state of many-body systems, as it is of great interest in various fields from condensed matter physics to material science. Traditionally, in an analog…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-18 Chufan Lyu , Victor Montenegro , Abolfazl Bayat

We propose a novel general approximation to transform and simplify the description of a complex fully-quantized system describing the interacting light and matter. The method has some similarities to the time-dependent Born-Oppenheimer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-01 Ivan Gonoskov , Stefanie Gräfe

We revisit the interaction of a first-quantized atomic system (consisting of two charged quantum particles) with the quantum electromagnetic field, pointing out the subtleties related to the gauge nature of electromagnetism and the effect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Richard Lopp , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

Cavity quantum electrodynamics allows one to study the interaction between light and matter at the most elementary level. The methods developed in this field have taught us how to probe and manipulate individual quantum systems like atoms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-10 J. J. Viennot , M. R. Delbecq , L. E. Bruhat , M. C. Dartiailh , M. Desjardins , M. Baillergeau , A. Cottet , T. Kontos

Employing the time-dependent variational principle combined with the multiple Davydov $\mathrm{D}_2$ Ansatz, we investigate Landau-Zener (LZ) transitions in a qubit coupled to a photon mode with various initial photon states at zero…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 Lu Wang , Fulu Zheng , Jiaming Wang , Frank Großmann , Yang Zhao

The possibility to simulate the properties of many-body open quantum systems with a large number of degrees of freedom is the premise to the solution of several outstanding problems in quantum science and quantum information. The challenge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Alexandra Nagy , Vincenzo Savona

The Rabi model considers a two-level system (or spin-1/2) coupled to a quantized harmonic oscillator and describes the simplest interaction between matter and light. The recent experimental progress in solid-state circuit quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-20 Loïc Henriet , Zoran Ristivojevic , Peter P. Orth , Karyn Le Hur

The Dicke model (DM) serves as a paradigm for understanding collective light-matter interactions. We introduce the chiral Dicke model, a generalization where an atomic ensemble couples to a two-mode cavity via chiral interactions. Unlike…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Nikolay Yegovtsev , Sayan Choudhury , W. Vincent Liu