Topological Materials of Light in Degenerate Multimode Cavities

POSTER

Abstract

Topologically ordered materials can be explored via cavity Rydberg polaritons, quasiparticles composed of part cavity photon and part atomic Rydberg excitation. The Rydberg component facilitates strong interactions between polaritons, while the cavity component allows us to shape the polariton energy landscape via the mode structure of a twisted optical cavity. Enabled by these concepts, we recently prepared the first two-particle Laughlin state of light. We now describe our efforts to prepare larger, topologically-ordered states through a newly designed highly degenerate multimode cavity and dissipative state preparation.

Publication: Logan W Clark, Nathan Schine, Claire Baum, Ningyuan Jia and Jonathan Simon, "Observation of Laughlin states made of light" Nature, 582, 41-45, (2020)

Presenters

  • Claire Baum

    • University of Chicago

Authors

  • Claire Baum

    • University of Chicago

  • Lukas Palm

    • University of Chicago

  • Matthew Jaffe

    • University of Chicago

  • Logan W Clark

    • University of Chicago

  • Nathan A Schine

    • JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
    • JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder
    • JILA, NIST, and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder
    • JILA

  • Ningyuan Jia

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MI

  • Jonathan Simon

    • University of Chicago