TY - JOUR T1 - Self-organization of atoms coupled to a chiral reservoir JF - Physical Review A Y1 - 2016 A1 - Zachary Eldredge A1 - Pablo Solano A1 - Darrick Chang A1 - Alexey V. Gorshkov AB -

Tightly confined modes of light, as in optical nanofibers or photonic crystal waveguides, can lead to large optical coupling in atomic systems, which mediates long-range interactions between atoms. These one-dimensional systems can naturally possess couplings that are asymmetric between modes propagating in different directions. Strong long-range interaction among atoms via these modes can drive them to a self-organized periodic distribution. In this paper, we examine the self-organizing behavior of atoms in one dimension coupled to a chiral reservoir. We determine the solution to the equations of motion in different parameter regimes, relative to both the detuning of the pump laser that initializes the atomic dipole-dipole interactions and the degree of reservoir chirality. In addition, we calculate possible experimental signatures such as reflectivity from self-organized atoms and motional sidebands.

VL - 94 U4 - 053855 UR - http://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.94.053855 CP - 5 U5 - 10.1103/PhysRevA.94.053855 ER -