Collective optomechanical effects in cavity quantum electrodynamics
Collective optomechanical effects in cavity quantum electrodynamics
We investigate a cavity quantum electrodynamic effect, where the alignment of two-dimensional freely rotating optical dipoles is driven by their collective coupling to the cavity field. By exploiting the formal equivalence of a set of rotating dipoles with a polymer we calculate the partition function of the coupled light-matter system and demonstrate it exhibits a second order phase transition between a bunched state of isotropic orientations and a stretched one with all the dipoles aligned. Such a transition manifests itself as an intensity-dependent shift of the polariton mode resonance. Our work, lying at the crossroad between cavity quantum electrodynamics and quantum optomechanics, is a step forward in the on-going quest to understand how strong coupling can be exploited to influence matter internal degrees of freedom.
Cortese, Erika
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Lagoudakis, Pavlos
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De Liberato, Simone
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July 2017
Cortese, Erika
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Lagoudakis, Pavlos
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De Liberato, Simone
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Cortese, Erika, Lagoudakis, Pavlos and De Liberato, Simone
(2017)
Collective optomechanical effects in cavity quantum electrodynamics.
Physical Review Letters, 119 (4), [043604].
(doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.043604).
Abstract
We investigate a cavity quantum electrodynamic effect, where the alignment of two-dimensional freely rotating optical dipoles is driven by their collective coupling to the cavity field. By exploiting the formal equivalence of a set of rotating dipoles with a polymer we calculate the partition function of the coupled light-matter system and demonstrate it exhibits a second order phase transition between a bunched state of isotropic orientations and a stretched one with all the dipoles aligned. Such a transition manifests itself as an intensity-dependent shift of the polariton mode resonance. Our work, lying at the crossroad between cavity quantum electrodynamics and quantum optomechanics, is a step forward in the on-going quest to understand how strong coupling can be exploited to influence matter internal degrees of freedom.
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Accepted/In Press date: 27 June 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 27 July 2017
Published date: July 2017
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Physics & Astronomy, Quantum, Light & Matter Group
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/411935
ISSN: 1079-7114
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Pavlos Lagoudakis
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