García-Elcano Iñaki, González-Tudela Alejandro, Bravo-Abad Jorge
Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada and Condensed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain.
Instituto de Física Fundamental IFF-CSIC, Calle Serrano 113b, Madrid 28006, Spain.
Phys Rev Lett. 2020 Oct 16;125(16):163602. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.163602.
Long-range coherent interactions between quantum emitters are instrumental for quantum information and simulation technologies, but they are generally difficult to isolate from dissipation. Here, we show how such interactions can be obtained in photonic Weyl environments due to the emergence of an exotic bound state whose wave function displays power-law spatial confinement. Using an exact formalism, we show how this bound state can mediate coherent transfer of excitations between emitters, with virtually no dissipation and with a transfer rate that follows the same scaling with distance as the bound state wave function. In addition, we show that the topological nature of Weyl points translates into two important features of the Weyl bound state, and, consequently, of the interactions it mediates: first, its range can be tuned without losing the power-law confinement, and, second, they are robust under energy disorder of the bath. To our knowledge, this is the first proposal of a photonic setup that combines simultaneously coherence, tunability, long range, and robustness to disorder. These findings could ultimately pave the way for the design of more robust long-distance entanglement protocols or quantum simulation implementations for studying long-range interacting systems.
量子发射器之间的长程相干相互作用对量子信息和模拟技术至关重要,但通常难以与耗散隔离开来。在此,我们展示了由于一种奇异束缚态的出现,如何在光子外尔环境中获得这种相互作用,该束缚态的波函数呈现幂律空间限制。使用一种精确的形式体系,我们展示了这种束缚态如何介导发射器之间激发的相干转移,几乎没有耗散,并且转移速率与距离的标度关系与束缚态波函数相同。此外,我们表明外尔点的拓扑性质转化为外尔束缚态的两个重要特征,进而转化为它所介导的相互作用的两个重要特征:第一,其范围可以调节而不会失去幂律限制;第二,它们在浴的能量无序下具有鲁棒性。据我们所知,这是第一个同时结合了相干性、可调谐性、长程性和对无序的鲁棒性的光子装置提议。这些发现最终可能为设计更鲁棒的长距离纠缠协议或用于研究长程相互作用系统的量子模拟实现铺平道路。