Photon–Qubit–Phonon Interactions: Engineering Photon Delocalization in a Rabi Dimer with a Dissipative Bath (Ann. Phys. 12/2018).

In article number 1800351, Yang Zhao and co‐workers adopt the Dirac–Frenkel time‐dependent variational principle combined with multiple Davydov D2 ansätze to investigate the dynamical behavior of Rabi dimers with qubits coupled to a phonon bath. Photons can hop between two transmission‐line resonators with a tunneling rate J. In each resonator, a qubit interacts with the photon mode with a coupling strength g. Two qubits are also coupled to a common phonon bath with a strength d, which can be used to engineer photon delocalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]