Engineering Many-Body Dynamics with Quantum Light Potentials and Measurements

Journal article

Interactions between many-body atomic systems and light in cavities induce new atomic dynamics, which we show can be tailored by projective light measurement backaction, leading to collective effects such as density-density interactions, perfectly-correlated atomic tunneling, superexchange, and effective pair creation and annihilation. These can be long- and short-range, with tunable strengths, based on the optical setup. We show this provides a framework to enhance quantum simulations of nov...

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Authors: Elliott, T; Mekhov, I

• Publication date: 2015-11-03
• Keywords: quant-ph; physics.optics; cond-mat.mes-hall; cond-mat.quant-gas; physics.atom-ph