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NATURE PHOTONICS
Volume 9, Issue 5, Pages 320-325Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/NPHOTON.2015.54
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- European Union integrated project 'Simulators and Interfaces with Quantum Systems' (SIQS)
- Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation
- Intra-European Fellowship NanoQuIS [625955]
- Fundacio Privada Cellex Barcelona
- Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Physics Frontier Center
- Moore Foundation
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Quantum Memories in Photon-Atomic-Solid State Systems (QuMPASS) Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives (MURI)
- Department of Defense National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellows (DoD NSSEFF) programme
- NSF [PHY1205729]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1205729] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Quantum simulation with cold atoms in optical lattices is an attractive avenue for explorations of quantum many-body physics. A principal challenge in the field is to increase the energy and length scales in current set-ups, thereby reducing temperature and coherence-time requirements. Here, we present a new paradigm for high-density, two-dimensional optical lattices in photonic crystal waveguides. Specially engineered two-dimensional photonic crystals provide a practical platform to trap atoms and engineer their interactions in ways that surpass the limitations of current technologies and enable investigations of novel quantum many-body matter. Our schemes remove the constraint on the lattice constant set by the free-space optical wavelength in favour of deeply sub-wavelength atomic arrays. We further describe possibilities for atom-atom interactions mediated by photons in two-dimensional photonic crystal waveguides with energy scales several orders of magnitude larger than for exchange interactions in free-space lattices and with the capability to engineer strongly long-range interactions.
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