1. Resonant enhancement of three-body loss between strongly interacting photons
- Author
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Marcin Kalinowski, Yidan Wang, Przemyslaw Bienias, Michael J. Gullans, D. P. Ornelas-Huerta, Alexander N. Craddock, Steven L. Rolston, J. V. Porto, Hans Peter Büchler, and Alexey V. Gorshkov
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Quantum Physics ,Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas) ,FOS: Physical sciences ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Quantum Physics (quant-ph) ,Condensed Matter - Quantum Gases ,Optics (physics.optics) ,Physics - Optics - 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 Schr\"odinger 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., Comment: 6+6 pages, 4 figures
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- 2020