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.

Light-Matter Interactions in Synthetic Magnetic Fields: Landau-Photon Polaritons / De Bernardis, D; Cian, Zp; Carusotto, I; Hafezi, M; Rabl, P. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - 126:10(2021). [10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.103603]

Light-Matter Interactions in Synthetic Magnetic Fields: Landau-Photon Polaritons

Carusotto I;
2021-01-01

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.
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De Bernardis, D; Cian, Zp; Carusotto, I; Hafezi, M; Rabl, P
Light-Matter Interactions in Synthetic Magnetic Fields: Landau-Photon Polaritons / De Bernardis, D; Cian, Zp; Carusotto, I; Hafezi, M; Rabl, P. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - 126:10(2021). [10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.103603]
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