TY - JOUR T1 - Resonant enhancement of three-body loss between strongly interacting photons Y1 - 2020 A1 - Marcin Kalinowski A1 - Yidan Wang A1 - Przemyslaw Bienias A1 - Michael Gullans A1 - Dalia P. Ornelas-Huerta A1 - Alexander N. Craddock A1 - Steven L. Rolston A1 - J. V. Porto A1 - Hans Peter Büchler A1 - Alexey V. Gorshkov AB -

Rydberg polaritons provide an example of a rare type of system where three-body interactions can be as strong or even stronger than two-body interactions. The three-body interactions can be either dispersive or dissipative, with both types possibly giving rise to exotic, strongly-interacting, and topological phases of matter. Despite past theoretical and experimental studies of the regime with dispersive interaction, the dissipative regime is still mostly unexplored. Using a renormalization group technique to solve the three-body Schrödinger equation, we show how the shape and strength of dissipative three-body forces can be universally enhanced for Rydberg polaritons. We demonstrate how these interactions relate to the transmission through a single-mode cavity, which can be used as a probe of the three-body physics in current experiment

UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09772 ER -