Two-polariton bound states in the Jaynes-Cummings-Hubbard model
Abstract
We examine the eigenstates of the one-dimensional Jaynes-Cummings-Hubbard model in the two-excitation subspace. We discover that two-excitation bound states emerge when the ratio of vacuum Rabi frequency to the tunneling rate between cavities exceeds a critical value. We determine the critical value as a function of the quasimomentum quantum number, and indicate that the bound states carry a strong correlation in which the two polaritons appear to be spatially confined together.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- May 2011
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.055802
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1101.1366
- Bibcode:
- 2011PhRvA..83e5802W
- Keywords:
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- 42.50.Pq;
- 03.65.Ge;
- 71.36.+c;
- Cavity quantum electrodynamics;
- micromasers;
- Solutions of wave equations: bound states;
- Polaritons;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 4 figures