Controlling Collective Phenomena by Engineering the Quantum State of Force Carriers: The Case of Photon-Mediated Superconductivity and its Criticality

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07131v1
• Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 18:00:05 GMT
• Title: Controlling Collective Phenomena by Engineering the Quantum State of Force Carriers: The Case of Photon-Mediated Superconductivity and its Criticality
• Authors: Ahana Chakraborty and Francesco Piazza
• Abstract summary: How are the scattering between the constituents of matter and the resulting collective phenomena affected by preparing the force carriers in different quantum states? This question has become experimentally relevant in a specific non-relativistic version of QED implemented within materials. We show that by preparing photons in pure Fock states one can enhance pair correlations, and even control the criticality and universality of the superconducting phase transition by the choice of the number of photons.
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• Abstract: How are the scattering between the constituents of matter and the resulting collective phenomena affected by preparing the force carriers in different quantum states? This question has become experimentally relevant in a specific non-relativistic version of QED implemented within materials, where standard techniques of quantum optics are available for the preparation of desired quantum states of the carrier photon. We develop the necessary non-equilibrium approach for computing the vertex function and find that, in addition to the energy and momentum structure of the scattering, a further structure emerges which reflects the Hilbert-space distribution of the carrier quantum state. This emergent structure becomes non-trivial for non-Gaussian quantum states of the force carrier, and can dramatically affect interactions and collective phenomena. As a first application, we show that by preparing photons in pure Fock states one can enhance pair correlations, and even control the criticality and universality class of the superconducting phase transition by the choice of the number of photons. Our results also reveal that the thermal mixture of Fock states regularises the strong pair correlations present in each of its components, yielding the standard Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer criticality.

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