01434nas a2200193 4500008004100000245005500041210005500096260001500151490000800166520090200174100001701076700001601093700001701109700001801126700002101144700001701165700002101182856003701203 2019 eng d00aPhoton pair condensation by engineered dissipation0 aPhoton pair condensation by engineered dissipation c04/02/20190 v1233 a
Dissipation can usually induce detrimental decoherence in a quantum system. However, engineered dissipation can be used to prepare and stabilize coherent quantum many-body states. Here, we show that by engineering dissipators containing photon pair operators, one can stabilize an exotic dark state, which is a condensate of photon pairs with a phase-nematic order. In this system, the usual superfluid order parameter, i.e. single-photon correlation, is absent, while the photon pair correlation exhibits long-range order. Although the dark state is not unique due to multiple parity sectors, we devise an additional type of dissipators to stabilize the dark state in a particular parity sector via a diffusive annihilation process which obeys Glauber dynamics in an Ising model. Furthermore, we propose an implementation of these photon-pair dissipators in circuit-QED architecture.
1 aCian, Ze-Pei1 aZhu, Guanyu1 aChu, Su-Kuan1 aSeif, Alireza1 aDeGottardi, Wade1 aJiang, Liang1 aHafezi, Mohammad uhttps://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00016