Observation of the Photon-Blockade Breakdown Phase Transition
By J. M. Fink, A. Dombi, András Vukics, Andreas Wallraff, Péter Domokos. 2016
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Non-equilibrium phase transitions exist in damped-driven open quantum systems, when the continuous tuning of an external parameter leads to a transition between two robust steady states. In second-order transitions this change is abrupt at a critical point, whereas in first-order transitions the two phases can co-exist in a critical hysteresis domain. Here we report the observation of a first-order dissipative quantum phase transition in a driven circuit quantum electrodynamics (QED) system. It takes place when the photon blockade of the driven cavity-atom system is broken by increasing the drive power. The observed experimental signature is a bimodal phase space distribution with varying weights controlled by the drive strength. Our measurements show an improved stabilization of the classical attractors up to the milli-second range when the size of the quantum system is increased from one to three artificial atoms. The formation of such robust pointer states could be used for new quantum measurement schemes or to investigate multi-photon quantum many-body phases.
Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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- Geometry of quantum phase transitions (2019, background): “Beyond zero-temperature and thermal phase transitions, a novel type of criticalities have recently emerged in the context of non-equilibrium steady states (NESSes) of open-driven dissipative systems [123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, ”