01280nas a2200205 4500008004100000245005000041210005000091260001500141300001100156490000800167520073000175100002100905700002100926700001300947700001900960700001600979700001800995700002501013856003601038 2016 eng d00aEffective Field Theory for Rydberg Polaritons0 aEffective Field Theory for Rydberg Polaritons c2016/09/09 a1136010 v1173 a
We study non-perturbative effects in N-body scattering of Rydberg polaritons using effective field theory (EFT). We develop an EFT in one dimension and show how a suitably long medium can be used to prepare shallow N-body bound states. We then derive the effective N-body interaction potential for Rydberg polaritons and the associated N-body contact force that arises in the EFT. We use the contact force to find the leading order corrections to the binding energy of the N-body bound states and determine the photon number at which the EFT description breaks down. We find good agreement throughout between the predictions of EFT and numerical simulations of the exact two and three photon wavefunction transmission.
1 aGullans, Michael1 aThompson, J., D.1 aWang, Y.1 aLiang, Q., -Y.1 aVuletic, V.1 aLukin, M., D.1 aGorshkov, Alexey, V. uhttp://arxiv.org/abs/1605.05651