Quantum Simulations with Photons and Polaritons Merging Quantum Optics with Condensed Matter Physics /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Angelakis, Dimitris G. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Quantum Science and Technology,
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum physics.; Phase transformations (Statistical physics).; Condensed materials.; Condensed matter.; Quantum optics.; Superconductivity.; Superconductors.; Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; Quantum Physics.; Quantum Optics.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.; Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity.; Quantum Gases and Condensates.

This book reviews progress towards quantum simulators based on photonic and hybrid light-matter systems, covering theoretical proposals and recent experimental work. Quantum simulators are specially designed quantum computers. Their main aim is to simulate and understand complex and inaccessible qua...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction; Dimitris G. Angelakis
• 1 Strongly correlated polaritons in nonlinear cavity arrays; Andrea Tomadin, Davide Rossini, Rosario Fazio
• 2 Phase diagram and excitations of the Jaynes-Cummings-Hubbard model; Sebastian Schmidt and Gianni Blatter
• 3 Out-of-equilibrium physics in driven dissipative photonic resonator arrays; Changsuk Noh, Stephen R. Clark, Dieter Jaksch, Dimitris G. Angelakis
• 4 Topological physics with photons; Mohammad Hafezi and Jacob Taylor
• 5 Exciton-Polariton Quantum Simulators; Na Young Kim and Yoshihisa Yamamoto
• 6 Strongly correlated photons in quantum photonic platforms; D. Gerace, C. Ciuti and I. Carusotto
• 7 Quantum simulations with circuit quantum electrodynamics; Guillermo Romero, Enrique Solano, and Lucas Lamata
• 8 Dirac Dynamics in Waveguide Arrays: From Zitterbewegung to Photonic Topological Insulators; F. Dreisow, M. C. Rechtsman, J. M. Zeuner, Y. Plotnik, R. Keil, S. Nolte, M. Segev, and A. Szameit
• Glossary.