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Driven-dissipative systems

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Atomic, molecular, and optical systems are often subject to dissipation and are often coherently driven by electromagnetic fields. Such driven-dissipative systems, often evolving according to a master equation rather than a Hamiltonian, are much less explored than their dissipationless counterparts. For example, exotic many-body states may emerge as steady states under nonequilibrium dynamics. In this research area, we study nonequilibrium phases and phase transitions in driven-dissipative models and harness these models for applications, such as quantum computing, quantum communication, metrology, and sensing. 

 

Relevant Publications: 

Steady-state superradiance with Rydberg polaritons, Z-X. Gong, M. Xu, M. Foss-Feig, J. K. Thompson, A. Maria Rey, M. Holland, and A. V. Gorshkov , arXiv:1611.00797 (2016)

Emergent equilibrium in many-body optical bistability, M. Foss-Feig, P. Niroula, J. T. Young, M. Hafezi, A. V. Gorshkov, R. M. Wilson, and M. F. Maghrebi , Phys. Rev. A, 95, 043826 (2017)

Correlated photon dynamics in dissipative Rydberg media, E. Zeuthen, M. J. Gullans, M. F. Maghrebi, and A. V. Gorshkov , Phys. Rev. Lett., 119, 043602 (2017)

Multicritical behavior in dissipative Ising models, V. R. Overbeck, M. F. Maghrebi, A. V. Gorshkov, and H. Weimer , Phys. Rev. A, 95, 042133 (2017)

Self-organization of atoms coupled to a chiral reservoir, Z. Eldredge, P. Solano, D. Chang, and A. V. Gorshkov , Phys. Rev. A, 94, 053855 (2016)

Many-body decoherence dynamics and optimised operation of a single-photon switch, C. R. Murray, A. V. Gorshkov, and T. Pohl , New J. Phys. , 18, 092001 (2016)

Collective phases of strongly interacting cavity photons, R. M. Wilson, K. W. Mahmud, A. Hu, A. V. Gorshkov, M. Hafezi, and M. Foss-Feig , Phys. Rev. A, 94, 033801 (2016)

Anomalous broadening in driven dissipative Rydberg systems, E. A. Goldschmidt, T. Boulier, R. C. Brown, S. B. Koller, J. T. Young, A. V. Gorshkov, S. L. Rolston, and J. V. Porto , Phys. Rev. Lett., 116, 113001 (2016)

Nonequilibrium many-body steady states via Keldysh formalism, M. F. Maghrebi, and A. V. Gorshkov , Phys. Rev. B, 93, 014307 (2016)

Dissipative Many-body Quantum Optics in Rydberg Media, A. V. Gorshkov, R. Nath, and T. Pohl , Phys. Rev. Lett., 110, 153601 (2013)

Quantum nonlinear optics with single photons enabled by strongly interacting atoms, T. Peyronel, O. Firstenberg, Q-Y. Liang, S. Hofferberth, A. V. Gorshkov, T. Pohl, M. D. Lukin, and V. Vuletic , Nature (London), 488, 57 (2012)

Photon-Photon Interactions via Rydberg Blockade, A. V. Gorshkov, J. Otterbach, M. Fleischhauer, T. Pohl, and M. D. Lukin , Phys. Rev. Lett., 107, 133602 (2011)