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Confining ultracold gases in cavities creates a paradigm of quantum trapping potentials. We show that this allows us to bridge models with global collective and short-range interactions as novel quantum phases possess properties of both. Some phases appear solely due to quantum light-matter correlations. Because of a global, but spatially structured, interaction, the competition between quantum matter and light waves leads to multimode structures even in single-mode cavities, including delocalized dimers of matter-field coherences (bonds), beyond density orders as supersolids and density waves.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 243604 |
Journal | Physical Review Letters |
Volume | 115 |
Issue number | 24 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 11 Dec 2015 |
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