Quantum Physics
[Submitted on 29 Apr 2024]
Title:Dynamical Photon Condensation into Wannier-Stark States
View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:Strongly coupled light-matter systems can exhibit nonequilibrium collective phenomena due to loss and gain processes on the one hand and effective photon-photon interactions on the other hand. Here we study a photonic lattice system composed of a linear array of driven-dissipative coupled cavities (or cavity modes) with linearly increasing resonance frequencies across the lattice. The model amounts to a driven-dissipative Bose-Hubbard model in a tilted potential without the particle-conservation constraint. We predict a diverse range of stationary and non-stationary states resulted from the interplay of the tilt, tunneling, on-site interactions, and the loss and gain processes. Our key finding is that, under weak on-site interactions, photons mostly Bose condense into a selected, single-particle Wannier-Stark state, instead of exhibiting expected Bloch oscillations. As the strength of the photon-photon interactions increase, a non-stationary regime emerges which is marked surprisingly by periodic Bloch-type oscillations. These intriguing, nontrivial effects are a direct consequence of the driven-dissipative nature of the system.
Submission history
From: Arkadiusz Kosior [view email][v1] Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:28:52 UTC (1,596 KB)
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