Incompressible Polaritons in a Flat Band.
- Biondi M Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
- van Nieuwenburg EP Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
- Blatter G Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
- Huber SD Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
- Schmidt S Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
- 2015-11-10
Published in:
- Physical review letters. - 2015
English
We study the interplay of geometric frustration and interactions in a nonequilibrium photonic lattice system exhibiting a polariton flat band as described by a variant of the Jaynes-Cummings-Hubbard model. We show how to engineer strong photonic correlations in such a driven, dissipative system by quenching the kinetic energy through frustration. This produces an incompressible state of photons characterized by short-ranged crystalline order with period doubling. The latter manifests itself in strong spatial correlations, i.e., on-site and nearest-neighbor antibunching combined with extended density-wave oscillations at larger distances. We propose a state-of-the-art circuit QED realization of our system, which is tunable in situ.
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- DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.143601
- PMID 26551811
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