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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 61: Quantum Optics (Miscellaneous)

Q 61.11: Poster

Donnerstag, 17. März 2022, 16:30–18:30, P

Quantum fluctuations and correlations in open quantum Dicke models — •Mario Boneberg, Igor Lesanovsky, and Federico Carollo — Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 14, 72076 Tübingen, Germany

In the vicinity of ground-state phase transitions quantum correlations can display non-analytic behavior and critical scaling. This signature of emergent collective effects has been widely investigated within a broad range of equilibrium settings. However, under nonequilibrium conditions, as found in open quantum many-body systems, characterizing quantum correlations near phase transitions is challenging. Moreover, the impact of local and collective dissipative processes on quantum correlations is not broadly understood. This is, however, indispensable for the exploitation of quantum effects in technological applications, such as sensing and metrology. We consider as a paradigmatic setting the superradiant phase transition of the open quantum Dicke model and characterize quantum and classical correlations across the phase diagram [1]. We develop an approach to quantum fluctuations which allows us to show that local dissipation, which cannot be treated within the commonly employed Holstein-Primakoff approximation, rather unexpectedly leads to an enhancement of collective quantum correlations, and to the emergence of a nonequilibrium superradiant phase in which the bosonic and spin degrees of freedom of the Dicke model are entangled.

[1] M. Boneberg, I. Lesanovsky, and F. Carollo, arXiv:2110.13191 (2021).