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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS B-ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS
Volume 46, Issue 22, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-4075/46/22/224021
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- National Science Foundation through the Princeton Center for Complex Materials [DMR-0819860]
- Swiss NSF [PP00P2-123519/1]
- National Science Foundation [DMR-1151810]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [PP00P2_123519] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1151810] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We discuss the physics of the Rabi-Hubbard model describing large arrays of coupled cavities interacting with two level atoms via a Rabi nonlinearity. We show that the inclusion of counter-rotating terms in the light-matter interaction, often neglected in theoretical descriptions based on Jaynes-Cumming models, is crucial to stabilize finite-density quantum phases of correlated photons with no need for an artificially engineered chemical potential. We show that the physical properties of these phases and the quantum phase transition occurring between them is remarkably different from those of interacting bosonic massive quantum particles. The competition between photon delocalization and Rabi nonlinearity drives the system across a novel Z(2) parity symmetry-breaking quantum phase transition between two gapped phases, a Rabi insulator and a delocalized super-radiant phase.
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