Adiabatic flux insertion and growing of Laughlin states of cavity Rydberg polaritons

Ivanov PA, Letscher F, Simon J, Fleischhauer M (2018)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2018

Journal

Physical Review A American Physical Society

Book Volume: 98

Article Number: 013847

Journal Issue: 1

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.98.013847

Abstract

Recently, the creation of a strong magnetic field in a photonic cavity system has been demonstrated [N. Schine, Nature (London) 534, 671 (2016).NATUAS0028-083610.1038/nature17943]. Using this setup, we propose a scheme to adiabatically transfer flux quanta simultaneously to all cavity photons. The flux transfer is achieved using external light fields with orbital angular momentum and a near-resonant dense atomic medium as a mediator. Furthermore, by coupling the cavity fields to a Rydberg state, strong photon-photon interactions can be realized and fractional quantum Hall states can be prepared. To this end, a growing protocol is discussed consisting of a sequence of flux insertion and subsequent single-photon insertion. Specifically, we discuss the growing of the ν=1/2 bosonic Laughlin state. First we adiabatically insert two photonic flux quanta, creating a two-quasihole excitation, and second we refill the hole with a single photon using the strong photon-photon interactions.

Involved external institutions

Technische Universität Kaiserslautern DE Germany (DE) University of Chicago US United States (USA) (US)

How to cite

APA:

Ivanov, P.A., Letscher, F., Simon, J., & Fleischhauer, M. (2018). Adiabatic flux insertion and growing of Laughlin states of cavity Rydberg polaritons. Physical Review A, 98(1). https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.98.013847

MLA:

Ivanov, Peter A., et al. "Adiabatic flux insertion and growing of Laughlin states of cavity Rydberg polaritons." Physical Review A 98.1 (2018).

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