Resonant enhancement of three-body loss between strongly interacting photons
arXiv:2010.09772 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.L022059
Abstract
Rydberg polaritons provide an example of a rare type of system where three-body interactions can be as strong or even stronger than two-body interactions. The three-body interactions can be either dispersive or dissipative, with both types possibly giving rise to exotic, strongly-interacting, and topological phases of matter. Despite past theoretical and experimental studies of the regime with dispersive interaction, the dissipative regime is still mostly unexplored. Using a renormalization group technique to solve the three-body Schrödinger equation, we show how the shape and strength of dissipative three-body forces can be universally enhanced for Rydberg polaritons. We demonstrate how these interactions relate to the transmission through a single-mode cavity, which can be used as a probe of the three-body physics in current experiments.
6+6 pages, 4 figures
References in corpus (17)
- The Quantum Internet
- Ultracold atomic gases in optical lattices: mimicking condensed matter physics and beyond
- Quantum fluids of light
- Single Photon Transistor Mediated by Inter-State Rydberg Interaction
- Storage and control of optical photons using Rydberg polaritons
- Single-Photon Transistor Using a Förster Resonance
- Atomic three-body loss as a dynamical three-body interaction
- Observation and measurement of "giant" dispersive optical non-linearities in an ensemble of cold Rydberg atoms
- Dissipative Many-body Quantum Optics in Rydberg Media
- Emerging Bosons with Three-Body Interactions from Spin-1 Atoms in Optical Lattices
- Fractional Quantum Hall States of Rydberg Polaritons
- Quantum and Nonlinear Optics in Strongly Interacting Atomic Ensembles
- Efimov States of Strongly Interacting Photons
- Quantum Crystals and Laughlin Droplets of Cavity Rydberg Polaritons
- Few-body quantum physics with strongly interacting Rydberg polaritons
- Tunable three-body loss in a nonlinear Rydberg medium
- Cavity polaritons with Rydberg blockade and long-range interactions