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Mornhinweg, Joshua ; Diebel, Laura K. ; Halbhuber, Maike ; Prager, M. ; Riepl, Josef ; Inzenhofer, T. ; Bougeard, Dominique ; Huber, Rupert ; Lange, Christoph

Mode-multiplexing deep-strong light-matter coupling

Mornhinweg, Joshua , Diebel, Laura K., Halbhuber, Maike, Prager, M., Riepl, Josef , Inzenhofer, T., Bougeard, Dominique , Huber, Rupert and Lange, Christoph (2023) Mode-multiplexing deep-strong light-matter coupling. arXiv, 2309.06915.

Date of publication of this fulltext: 19 Dec 2023 05:43
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.55187


Abstract

Dressing quantum states of matter with virtual photons can create exotic effects ranging from vacuum-field modified transport to polaritonic chemistry, and may drive strong squeezing or entanglement of light and matter modes. The established paradigm of cavity quantum electrodynamics focuses on resonant light-matter interaction to maximize the coupling strength ΩR/ωc, defined as the ratio of the ...

Dressing quantum states of matter with virtual photons can create exotic effects ranging from vacuum-field modified transport to polaritonic chemistry, and may drive strong squeezing or entanglement of light and matter modes. The established paradigm of cavity quantum electrodynamics focuses on resonant light-matter interaction to maximize the coupling strength ΩR/ωc, defined as the ratio of the vacuum Rabi frequency and the carrier frequency of light. Yet, the finite oscillator strength of a single electronic excitation sets a natural limit to ΩR/ωc. Here, we demonstrate a new regime of record-strong light-matter interaction which exploits the cooperative dipole moments of multiple, highly non-resonant magnetoplasmon modes specifically tailored by our metasurface. This multi-mode coupling creates an ultrabroadband spectrum of over 20 polaritons spanning 6 optical octaves, vacuum ground state populations exceeding 1 virtual excitation quantum for electronic and optical modes, and record coupling strengths equivalent to ΩR/ωc=3.19. The extreme interaction drives strongly subcycle exchange of vacuum energy between multiple bosonic modes akin to high-order nonlinearities otherwise reserved to strong-field physics, and entangles previously orthogonal electronic excitations solely via vacuum fluctuations of the common cavity mode. This offers avenues towards tailoring phase transitions by coupling otherwise non-interacting modes, merely by shaping the dielectric environment.



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Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitlearXiv
Page Range:2309.06915
Date13 September 2023
InstitutionsPhysics > Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics > Chair Professor Huber > Group Rupert Huber
Physics > Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics > Chair Professor Huber > Group Dominique Bougeard
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2309.06915arXiv ID
Dewey Decimal Classification500 Science > 530 Physics
StatusPublished
RefereedNo, this version has not been refereed yet (as with preprints)
Created at the University of RegensburgPartially
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-551877
Item ID55187

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