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Resonant enhancement of three-body loss between strongly interacting photons

Marcin Kalinowski1,2,3,*, Yidan Wang1,3,*, Przemyslaw Bienias1,4, Michael J. Gullans1,4,5, D. P. Ornelas-Huerta1, Alexander N. Craddock1, Steven L. Rolston1, J. V. Porto1, Hans Peter Büchler6 et al.

Alexey V. Gorshkov1,4

  • 1Joint Quantum Institute, NIST/University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
  • 2Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
  • 3Department of Physics, Harvard University, 17 Oxford Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
  • 4Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, NIST/University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
  • 5Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
  • 6Institute for Theoretical Physics III and Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, University of Stuttgart, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany

  • *These authors contributed equally to this work.
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Phys. Rev. Research 4, L022059 – Published 17 June, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/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 as 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 quantum three-body problem, 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.

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Phys. Rev. Research 4, L022059– Published 17 June, 2022
  • Received 1 November 2020
  • Revised 15 December 2021
  • Accepted 10 March 2022
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