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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 124, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.033601
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- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [SFB FoQuS P13]
- FWF [I3964-N27]
- National Agency for Research (ANR) of France
- ESQ fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OAW)
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Atomic self-ordering to a crystalline phase in optical resonators is a consequence of the intriguing nonlinear dynamics of strongly coupled atom motion and photons. Generally the resulting phase diagrams and atomic states can be largely understood on a mean-field level. However, close to the phase transition point, quantum fluctuations and atom-field entanglement play a key role and initiate the symmetry breaking. Here we propose a modified ring cavity geometry, in which the asymmetry imposed by a tilted pump beam reveals clear signatures of quantum dynamics even in a larger regime around the phase transition point. Quantum fluctuations become visible both in the dynamic and steady-state properties. Most strikingly we can identify a regime where a mean-field approximation predicts a runaway instability, while in the full quantum model the quantum fluctuations of the light field modes stabilize uniform atomic motion. The proposed geometry thus allows to unveil the quantumness of atomic self-ordering via experimentally directly accessible quantities.
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