Dissipation-Induced Anomalous Multicritical Phenomena.
- Soriente M Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
- Donner T Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
- Chitra R Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
- Zilberberg O Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
- 2018-05-19
Published in:
- Physical review letters. - 2018
English
We explore the influence of dissipation on a paradigmatic driven-dissipative model where a collection of two level atoms interact with both quadratures of a quantum cavity mode. The closed system exhibits multiple phase transitions involving discrete and continuous symmetries breaking and all phases culminate in a multicritical point. In the open system, we show that infinitesimal dissipation erases the phase with broken continuous symmetry and radically alters the model's phase diagram. The multicritical point now becomes brittle and splits into two tricritical points where first- and second-order symmetry-breaking transitions meet. A quantum fluctuations analysis shows that, surprisingly, the tricritical points exhibit anomalous finite fluctuations, as opposed to standard tricritical points arising in ^{3}He-^{4}He mixtures. Our work has direct implications for a variety of fields, including cold atoms and ions in optical cavities, circuit-quantum electrodynamics as well as optomechanical systems.
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- DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.183603
- PMID 29775339
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