Nonreciprocal synchronization of active quantum spins
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03357v1
- Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 15:12:34 GMT
- Title: Nonreciprocal synchronization of active quantum spins
- Authors: Tobias Nadolny, Christoph Bruder, Matteo Brunelli,
- Abstract summary: We present a model of two species of quantum spins that interact in an antagonistic nonreciprocal way.
We show that nonreciprocal interactions deeply affect their synchronization dynamics.
Our work opens a new avenue to explore nonreciprocal interactions in active quantum matter.
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- Abstract: Active agents are capable of exerting nonreciprocal forces upon one another. For instance, one agent may attract another one, which in turn is repelled. These antagonistic nonreciprocal interactions have been extensively studied in classical systems, revealing a wealth of exciting phenomena such as novel phase transitions and traveling-wave states. Whether these phenomena can originate in quantum many-body systems is an open issue, and proposals for their realization are lacking. In this work, we present a model of two species of quantum spins that interact in an antagonistic nonreciprocal way of the attraction-repulsion type. We propose an implementation based on two atomic ensembles coupled via chiral waveguides featuring both braided and non-braided geometries. The spins are active due to the presence of local gain, which allows them to synchronize. We show that nonreciprocal interactions deeply affect their synchronization dynamics. In the thermodynamic limit, this results in a nonreciprocal phase transition to nonstationary traveling-wave states, associated with spontaneous breaking of parity-time symmetry. We establish how this symmetry emerges from the microscopic quantum model. For a finite number of spins, we discuss how traveling-wave states and nonreciprocal phase transitions are revealed by spin correlations measurable via the output field of the waveguides. Our work opens a new avenue to explore nonreciprocal interactions in active quantum matter.
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