Continuous feedback on a quantum gas coupled to an optical cavity
Open Access
- 7 February 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in New Journal of Physics
- Vol. 22 (3), 033020
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ab73cc
Abstract
We present an active feedback scheme acting continuously on the state of a quantum gas dispersively coupled to a high-finesse optical cavity. The quantum gas is subject to a transverse pump laser field inducing a self-organization phase transition, where the gas acquires a density modulation and photons are scattered into the resonator. Photons leaking from the cavity allow for a real-time and non-destructive readout of the system. We stabilize the mean intra-cavity photon number through a micro-processor controlled feedback architecture acting on the intensity of the transverse pump field. The feedback scheme can keep the mean intra-cavity photon number nph constant, in a range between nph=0.17±0.04 and nph=27.6±0.5, and for up to 4s. Thus we can engage the stabilization in a regime where the system is very close to criticality as well as deep in the self-organized phase. The presented scheme allows us to approach the self-organization phase transition in a highly controlled manner and is a first step on the path towards the realization of many-body phases driven by tailored feedback mechanisms.Keywords
Funding Information
- H2020 European Research Council (742579)
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (175329)
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