Colloquium: Quantum matter built from nanoscopic lattices of atoms and photons
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- 1 August 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Reviews of Modern Physics
- Vol. 90 (3), 031002
- https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.90.031002
Abstract
This Colloquium describes a new paradigm for creating strong quantum interactions of light and matter by way of single atoms and photons in nanoscopic lattices. Beyond the possibilities for quantitative improvements for familiar phenomena in atomic physics and quantum optics, there is a growing research community that is exploring novel quantum phases and phenomena that arise from atom-photon interactions in one- and two-dimensional nanophotonic lattices. Nanophotonic structures offer the intriguing possibility to control atom-photon interactions by engineering the medium properties through which they interact. An important aspect of these new research lines is that they have become possible only by pushing the state-of-the-art capabilities in nanophotonic device fabrication and by the integration of these capabilities into the realm of ultracold atoms. This Colloquium attempts to inform a broad physics community of the emerging opportunities in this new field on both theoretical and experimental fronts. The research is inherently multidisciplinary, spanning the fields of nanophotonics, atomic physics, quantum optics, and condensed matter physics.Funding Information
- H2020 European Research Council (QUENOCOBA, 742102, ERC-2016-ADG, FOQAL)
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (MURI)
- Office of Naval Research (N00014-17-1-2289, QOMAND, N00014-16-1-2399, FA9550-17-1-0298)
- Fundación Cellex
- National Science Foundation (PHY-1205729)
- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (SEV-2015-0522, CANS)
- Intra-European Marie-Curie Fellowship (625955)
- Institute for Quantum Information and Matter
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