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Published May 2015 | Supplemental Material + Accepted Version
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Quantum many-body models with cold atoms coupled to photonic crystals

Abstract

Using cold atoms to simulate strongly interacting quantum systems is an exciting frontier of physics. However, because atoms are nominally neutral point particles, this limits the types of interaction that can be produced. We propose to use the powerful new platform of cold atoms trapped near nanophotonic systems to extend these limits, enabling a novel quantum material in which atomic spin degrees of freedom, motion and photons strongly couple over long distances. In this system, an atom trapped near a photonic crystal seeds a localized, tunable cavity mode around the atomic position. We find that this effective cavity facilitates interactions with other atoms within the cavity length, in a way that can be made robust against realistic imperfections. Finally, we show that such phenomena should be accessible using one-dimensional photonic crystal waveguides in which coupling to atoms has already been experimentally demonstrated.

Additional Information

© 2015 Macmillan Publishers Limited. Received 18 October 2014 Accepted 05 March 2015 Published online 06 April 2015. The authors thank L. Tagliacozzo, P. Hauke, M. Lewenstein, A. González-Tudela, J.I. Cirac, L. Jiang, J. Preskill, O. Painter, M. Lukin, J. Thompson and S. Gopalakrishnan for discussions. This work was supported by Fundacio Privada Cellex Barcelona, the MINECO Ramon y Cajal Program, the Marie Curie Career Integration Grant, the IQIM, an NSF Physics Frontiers Center, the DoD NSSEFF programme, DARPA ORCHID, AFOSR QuMPASS MURI, NSF PHY-1205729, NSF PFC at the JQI, NSF PIF, ARO, AFOSR, ARL and AFOSR MURI on Ultracold Polar Molecules. Author contributions: J.S.D., H.H. and C.-L.H. performed the calculations. All authors contributed ideas. J.S.D. and D.E.C. wrote the manuscript. Competing financial interests: The authors declare no competing financial interests.

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