Quantum stabilization of photonic spatial correlations
arXiv:1806.11067 · doi:10.1088/1402-4896/aaf120
Abstract
The driven, dissipative Bose-Hubbard model (BHM) provides a generic description of collective phases of interacting photons in cavity arrays. In the limit of strong optical nonlinearities (hard-core limit), the BHM maps on the dissipative, transverse-field XY model (XYM). The steady-state of the XYM can be analyzed using mean-field theory, which reveals a plethora of interesting dynamical phenomena. For example, strong hopping combined with a blue-detuned drive, leads to an instability of the homogeneous steady-state with respect to antiferromagnetic fluctuations. In this paper, we address the question whether such an antiferromagnetic instability survives in the presence of quantum correlations beyond the mean-field approximation. For that purpose, we employ a self-consistent expansion for the density matrix, where is the lattice coordination number, i.e., the number of nearest neighbours for each site. We show that quantum fluctuations stabilize a new homogeneous steady-state with antiferromagnetic correlations in agreement with exact numerical simulations for finite lattices. The latter manifests itself as short-ranged oscillations of the first and second-order spatial coherence functions of the photons emitted by the array.
arXiv comment7 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Physica Scripta as part of the Focus Issue: Quantum Optics and Beyond - in honour of Wolfgang Schleich
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