Light-Matter Interactions in Synthetic Magnetic Fields: Landau-Photon Polaritons
Year: 2021
Authors: De Bernardis Daniele; Cian Ze Pei; Carusotto Iacopo; Hafezi Mohammad; Rabl Peter
Autors Affiliation: Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Atominstitut, TU Wien, 1040 Vienna, Austria; Joint Quantum Institute, College Park, 20742 Maryland, USA; INO-CNR BEC Center and Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Trento, I-38123 Povo, Italy; The Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, 20742 Maryland, USA
Abstract: We study light-matter interactions in two-dimensional photonic systems in the presence of a spatially homogeneous synthetic magnetic field for light. Specifically, we consider one or more two-level emitters located in the bulk region of the lattice, where for increasing magnetic field the photonic modes change from extended plane waves to circulating Landau levels. This change has a drastic effect on the resulting emitter-field dynamics, which becomes intrinsically non-Markovian and chiral, leading to the formation of strongly coupled Landau-photon polaritons. The peculiar dynamical and spectral properties of these quasiparticles can be probed with state-of-the-art photonic lattices in the optical and the microwave domain and may find various applications for the quantum simulation of strongly interacting topological models.
Journal/Review: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume: 126 (10) Pages from: 103603-1 to: 103603-7
KeyWords: quantum hall effect, topological photonics, landau levelsDOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.103603