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TY - JOUR
T1 - Signatures of the superfluid-insulator phase transitions in laser-driven dissipative nonlinear cavity arrays
AU - Tomadin, Andrea
AU - Giovannetti, V.
AU - Fazio, R.
AU - Gerace, D.
AU - Carusotto, I.
AU - Tureci, H. E.
AU - Imamoglu, A.
PY - 2010/6/11
Y1 - 2010/6/11
N2 - We analyze the nonequilibrium dynamics of a gas of interacting photons in an array of coupled dissipative nonlinear cavities when driven by a pulsed external coherent field. Using a mean-field approach, we show that the response of the system is strongly sensitive to the underlying (equilibrium) quantum phase transition from a Mott insulator to a superfluid state at commensurate filling. We find that the coherence of the cavity emission after a quantum quench can be used to determine the phase diagram of an optical many-body system even in the presence of dissipation.
AB - We analyze the nonequilibrium dynamics of a gas of interacting photons in an array of coupled dissipative nonlinear cavities when driven by a pulsed external coherent field. Using a mean-field approach, we show that the response of the system is strongly sensitive to the underlying (equilibrium) quantum phase transition from a Mott insulator to a superfluid state at commensurate filling. We find that the coherence of the cavity emission after a quantum quench can be used to determine the phase diagram of an optical many-body system even in the presence of dissipation.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.061801
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.061801
M3 - Journal article
VL - 81
JO - Physical review a
JF - Physical review a
SN - 1050-2947
M1 - 061801
ER -