Mott polaritons in cavity-coupled quantum materials

Abstract

We show that strong electron-electron interactions in cavity-coupled quantum materials can enable collectively enhanced light-matter interactions with ultrastrong effective coupling strengths. As a paradigmatic example we consider a Fermi-Hubbard model coupled to a single-mode cavity and find that resonant electron-cavity interactions result in the formation of a quasi-continuum of polariton branches. The vacuum Rabi splitting of the two outermost branches is collectively enhanced and scales with $g_{\text{eff}}\propto \sqrt{2L}$, where $L$ is the number of electronic sites, and the maximal achievable value for $g_{\text{eff}}$ is determined by the volume of the unit cell of the crystal. We find that $g_{\text{eff}}$ for existing quantum materials can by far exceed the width of the first excited Hubbard band. This effect can be experimentally observed via measurements of the optical conductivity and does not require ultra-strong coupling on the single-electron level. Quantum correlations in the electronic ground state as well as the microscopic nature of the light-matter interaction enhance the collective light-matter interaction compared to an ensemble of independent two-level atoms interacting with a cavity mode.

arXiv comment11 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1806.06752

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