Dynamics of spin-momentum entanglement from superradiant phase transitions
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2024-08
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Exploring operational regimes of many-body cavity QED with multilevel atoms remains an exciting research frontier for their enhanced storage capabilities of intralevel quantum correlations. In this work, we consider an experimentally feasible many-body cavity QED model describing a four-level system, where each of those levels is formed from a combination of different spin and momentum states of ultracold atoms in a cavity. The resulting model comprises a pair of Dicke Hamiltonians constructed from pseudospin operators, effectively capturing two intertwined superradiant phase transitions. The phase diagram reveals regions featuring weak and strong entangled states of spin and momentum atomic degrees of freedom. These states exhibit different dynamical responses, ranging from slow to fast relaxation, with the added option of persistent entanglement temporal oscillations. We discuss the role of cavity losses in steering the system's dynamics into such entangled states and propose a readout scheme that leverages different light polarizations within the cavity. Our work paves the way to connect the rich variety of non-equilibrium phase transitions that occur in many-body cavity QED to the buildup of quantum correlations in systems with multilevel atom descriptions.
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6 (3)
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33193
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American Physical Society
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03599 - Esslinger, Tilman / Esslinger, Tilman
08855 - Donner,Tobias (Tit. Prof) / Donner,Tobias (Tit. Prof)
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212168 - Tailoring interactions in quantum matter (SNF)
742579 - Mass, heat and spin transport in interlinked quantum gases (EC)
742579 - Mass, heat and spin transport in interlinked quantum gases (EC)