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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 128, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.070603
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- DOC Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) within the DK-ALM [W1259-N27]
- FWF [M2438-NBL, I3964-N27]
- National Agency for Research (ANR) of France
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The proposed model is based on an open quantum-gas-cavity-QED setup to study the physics of dynamical gauge potentials. It involves atomic tunneling mediated by photon scattering to induce a dynamical gauge field and results in different types of current formation. The system can enter an unstable regime exhibiting oscillations with an induced electromotive force as expected from Faraday's law of induction.
We propose a novel type of a Bose-Hubbard ladder model based on an open quantum-gas-cavity-QED setup to study the physics of dynamical gauge potentials. Atomic tunneling along opposite directions in the two legs of the ladder is mediated by photon scattering from transverse pump lasers to two distinct cavity modes. The resulting interplay between cavity photon dissipation and the optomechanical atomic backaction then induces an average-density-dependent dynamical gauge field. The dissipation-stabilized steady-state atomic motion along the legs of the ladder leads either to a pure chiral current, screening the induced dynamical magnetic field as in the Meissner effect, or generates simultaneously chiral and particle currents. For a sufficiently strong pump the system enters into a dynamically unstable regime exhibiting limit-cycle and period-doubled oscillations. Intriguingly, an electromotive force is induced in this dynamical regime as expected from an interpretation based on Faraday's law of induction for the time-dependent synthetic magnetic flux.
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