Fractional quantum Hall states of photons in an array of dissipative coupled cavities

2011/10/31 by R. O. Umucalilar, I. Carusotto · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.quant-gas

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.108.206809

published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 206809 (2012) · 6 pages including the Supplemental Material (accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett.)

arxiv created 2012/04/16 · arxiv updated 2018/05/17

Abstract

We report a theoretical study of the collective optical response of a two-dimensional array of nonlinear cavities in the impenetrable photon regime under a strong artificial magnetic field. Taking advantage of the non-equilibrium nature of the photon gas, we propose an experimentally viable all-optical scheme to generate and detect strongly correlated photon states which are optical analogs of the Laughlin states of fractional quantum Hall physics.

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