Many-Body Cavity QED
Many-Body Cavity QED
What is a quantum neural network and how might it exhibit computational advantage? Can we create a spin glass made of atomic spins and photons and use it to resolve longstanding mysteries surrounding spin-glass order? Could BEC matter waves interacting via photons mimic the quantum liquid crystals found in high-Tc superconductors? If so, what might we learn? We are tackling these fundamental and technologically relevant questions using our novel multimode cavity QED-BEC apparatus. The system provides strong, photon-mediated interactions among atoms trapped within the cavity resonator. Photons virtually scattered among the atoms cause the system to superradiate and self-organize into various exotic forms of quantum matter such as quantum spin glasses---which can be used as quantum neural networks---and quantum liquid crystals. We have recently demonstrated the necessary ingredients needed to realize these exotic systems. Moreover, we are investigating whether quantum neural networks based on these driven-dissipative quantum systems may provide for finding solutions to NP-hard optimization problems.
Team Members
News
Read news article "Quantum Simulation Stars Light in the Role of... Read More
We demonstrated dynamical spin-orbit-coupling in a BEC for the first time... Read More
We made a spinor polariton condensate. Published in PRL. Read more... Read More
A new nonequilibrium state of matter. To appear in Phys Rev Applied. ArXiv version
Digital Micromirror Devices (DMD) provide a robust platform with which to implement digital holography, in principle providing the means to... Read More
Theory paper on soft quantum matter in multimode cavity QED published in Phys. Rev. A... Read More
A method to observe supersolids and superstripes? Lev helps propose a multimode cavity QED... Read More
Publications
Y. Guo, R. M. Kroeze, B. P. Marsh, S. Gopalakrishnan, J. Keeling, and B. L. Lev
An optical lattice with sound
Nature 599, 211 (2021). link to pdf
News coverage:
Stanford News: Adding sound to quantum simulations
APS Physics Magazine: A Humming Lattice of Cold Atoms
B. P. Marsh, Y. Guo, R. M. Kroeze, S. Gopalakrishnan, S. Ganguli, J. Keeling, and B. L. Lev
Enhancing associative memory recall and storage capacity using confocal cavity QED
Physical Review X 11, 021048 (2021). pdf
News coverage:
APS Synopsis in Physics: A Computer Memory Based on Cold Atoms and Light
APS DAMOP Highlight: Atoms and Light Remember Better
arXiv:2009.01227 pdf
C. Rylands, Y. Guo, B. L. Lev, J. Keeling, and V. Galitski
Photon-mediated Peierls Transition of a 1D Gas in a Multimode Optical Cavity
Physical Review Letters 125, 010404 (2020). pdf
News coverage:
"Quantum Simulation Stars Light in the Role of Sound" by Bailey Bedford
arxiv:2002.12285
R. M. Kroeze, Y. Guo, and B. L. Lev
Dynamical spin-orbit coupling of a quantum gas
Physical Review Letters 123, 160404 (2019). pdf
arXiv:1904.08388
Y. Guo, V. D. Vaidya, R. M. Kroeze, R. A. Lunney, B. L. Lev, and J. Keeling
Emergent and broken symmetries of atomic self-organization arising from Gouy phase shifts in multimode cavity QED
Physical Review A 99, 053818 (2019). pdf
Selected for Editors' Suggestion
Featured in Physics Synopsis: A Step Toward Simulating Spin Glasses. pdf
arXiv:1810.11085 pdf
Erratum: Physical Review A 103, 019901(E) (2021). pdf
Y. Guo, R. M. Kroeze, V. D. Vaidya, J. Keeling, and B. L. Lev
Sign-changing photon-mediated atom interactions in multimode cavity QED
Physical Review Letters 122, 193601 (2019). pdf
Selected for Editors' Suggestion
Featured in Physics Synopsis: A Step Toward Simulating Spin Glasses. pdf
arXiv:1810.11086
R. M. Kroeze, Y. Guo, V. D. Vaidya, J. Keeling, and B. L. Lev
Spinor self-ordering of a quantum gas in a cavity
Physical Review Letters 121, 163601 (2018).
arXiv:1807.04915 pdf
V. D. Vaidya, Y. Guo, R. M. Kroeze, K. E. Ballantine, A. J. Kollár, J. Keeling, and B. L. Lev
Tunable-range, photon-mediated atomic interactions in multimode cavity QED
Physical Review X 8, 011002 (2018). pdf
Selected for a Viewpoint in APS Physics:
H. Türeci, A Multimode Dial for Interatomic Interactions, pdf
arXiv:1708.08933
A. J. Kollár, A. T. Papageorge, V. D. Vaidya, Y. Guo, J. Keeling, and B. L. Lev
Supermode-density-wave-polariton condensation
Nature Communications 8, 14386 (2017). pdf
arXiv:1606.04127
K. E. Ballantine, B. L. Lev, and J. Keeling
Meissner-like effect for synthetic gauge field in multimode cavity QED
Physical Review Letters 118, 045302 (2017). pdf
arXiv:1608.07246
A. T. Papageorge, A. J. Kollár, and B. L. Lev
Coupling to Modes of a Near-Confocal Optical Resonator Using a Digital Light Modulator
Optics Express 24, 11447 (2016). pdf
arXiv:1603.06900
A. Kollár, A. Papageorge, K. Baumann, M. Armen, and B. L. Lev
An adjustable-length cavity and Bose-Einstein condensate apparatus for multimode cavity QED
New Journal of Physics 17, 043012 (2015). pdf
arXiv:1411.5443
S. Gopalakrishnan, B. L. Lev, and P. Goldbart
Frustration and glassiness in spin models with cavity-mediated interactions
Physical Review Letters 107, 277201 (2011). pdf
S. Gopalakrishnan, B. L. Lev, and P. Goldbart
Exploring models of associative memory via cavity quantum electrodynamics
Philosophical Magazine, 92, 353 (2012).
Special issue in honor of David Sherrington
S. Gopalakrishnan, B. L. Lev, and P. Goldbart
Atom-light crystallization of BECs in multimode cavities: Nonequilibrium classical and quantum phase transitions, emergent lattices, supersolidity, and frustration
Physical Review A 82, 043612 (2010). pdf
Selected for a Viewpoint in APS Physics
S. Gopalakrishnan, B. L. Lev, and P. Goldbart
Emergent crystallinity and frustration with Bose-Einstein condensates in multimode cavities
Nature Physics 5, 845 - 850 (2009).
Nature Physics News and Views article by Helmut Ritsch.
arXiv:cond-mat/0903.2254 pdf