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Chiral quantum optics in photonic sawtooth lattices

Eduardo Sánchez-Burillo, Chao Wan, David Zueco, and Alejandro González-Tudela
Phys. Rev. Research 2, 023003 – Published 2 April 2020

Abstract

Chiral quantum optics has become a burgeoning field due to its potential applications in quantum networks or quantum simulation of many-body physics. Current implementations are based on the interplay between local polarization and propagation direction of light in nanophotonic structures. In this manuscript, we propose an alternative platform based on coupling quantum emitters to a photonic sawtooth lattice, a one-dimensional model with an effective flux per plaquette introduced by complex tunnelings. We study the dynamics emerging from such structured photonic bath and find the conditions to obtain quasiperfect directional emission when the emitters are resonant with the band. In addition, we find that the photons in this bath can also mediate complex emitter-emitter interactions tunable in range and phase when the emitters transition frequencies lie within a band gap. Since these effects do not rely on polarization, we propose an implementation based on circuit QED to observe this physics.

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  • Received 4 July 2019
  • Accepted 2 March 2020

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023003

Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Open access publication funded by the Max Planck Society.

Published by the American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Atomic, Molecular & Optical

Authors & Affiliations

Eduardo Sánchez-Burillo1, Chao Wan1,2, David Zueco3,4, and Alejandro González-Tudela5

  • 1Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
  • 2Fakultät Physik at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Schellingstraße 4, 80799 Munich, Germany
  • 3Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón and Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, Calle Pedro Cerbuna 12, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
  • 4Fundación ARAID, Paseo María Agustín 36, 50004 Zaragoza, Spain
  • 5Instituto de Física Fundamental IFF-CSIC, Calle Serrano 113b, Madrid 28006, Spain

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Vol. 2, Iss. 2 — April - June 2020

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