%0 Journal Article %D 2020 %T Resonant enhancement of three-body loss between strongly interacting photons %A Marcin Kalinowski %A Yidan Wang %A Przemyslaw Bienias %A Michael Gullans %A Dalia P. Ornelas-Huerta %A Alexander N. Craddock %A Steven L. Rolston %A J. V. Porto %A Hans Peter Büchler %A Alexey V. Gorshkov %X

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

%8 10/19/2020 %G eng %U https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09772