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Quantum Optical Lattices for Emergent Many-Body Phases of Ultracold Atoms. / Caballero-Benitez, Santiago F.; Mekhov, Igor B.
In: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 115, No. 24, 243604, 11.12.2015.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Quantum Optical Lattices for Emergent Many-Body Phases of Ultracold Atoms
AU - Caballero-Benitez, Santiago F.
AU - Mekhov, Igor B.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2015 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the »http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/» Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Copyright: Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/12/11
Y1 - 2015/12/11
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.243604
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.243604
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84949647783
VL - 115
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
SN - 0031-9007
IS - 24
M1 - 243604
ER -
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