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TY - JOUR
T1 - Reservoir engineering and dynamical phase transitions in optomechanical arrays
AU - Tomadin, Andrea
AU - Diehl, S.
AU - Lukin, M. D.
AU - Rabl, P.
AU - Zoller, P.
PY - 2012/9/14
Y1 - 2012/9/14
N2 - We study the driven-dissipative dynamics of photons interacting with an array of micromechanical membranes in an optical cavity. Periodic membrane driving and phonon creation result in an effective photon-number-conserving nonunitary dynamics, which features a steady state with long-range photonic coherence. If the leakage of photons out of the cavity is counteracted by incoherent driving of the photonic modes, we show that the system undergoes a dynamical phase transition to the state with long-range coherence. A minimal system, composed of two micromechanical membranes in a cavity, is studied in detail, and it is shown to be a realistic setup where the key processes of the driven-dissipative dynamics can be seen.
AB - We study the driven-dissipative dynamics of photons interacting with an array of micromechanical membranes in an optical cavity. Periodic membrane driving and phonon creation result in an effective photon-number-conserving nonunitary dynamics, which features a steady state with long-range photonic coherence. If the leakage of photons out of the cavity is counteracted by incoherent driving of the photonic modes, we show that the system undergoes a dynamical phase transition to the state with long-range coherence. A minimal system, composed of two micromechanical membranes in a cavity, is studied in detail, and it is shown to be a realistic setup where the key processes of the driven-dissipative dynamics can be seen.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevA.86.033821
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.86.033821
M3 - Journal article
VL - 86
JO - Physical review a
JF - Physical review a
SN - 1050-2947
IS - 3
M1 - 033821
ER -