Multiband dispersion and warped vortices of strongly-interacting photons

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11553v1
• Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:35:10 GMT
• Title: Multiband dispersion and warped vortices of strongly-interacting photons
• Authors: Bankim Chandra Das, Dmytro Kiselov, Lee Drori, Ariel Nakav, Alexander Poddubny, Ofer Firstenberg,
• Abstract summary: We study quantum correlations between interacting photons realized through co-propagating Rydberg polaritons. For three photons, the dispersion breaks the symmetry between a photon pair propagating ahead versus behind a single photon.
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• Abstract: We study quantum correlations between interacting photons realized through co-propagating Rydberg polaritons. We show that the evolution of the $n$-photon wavefunction is governed by a multiband dispersion featuring one massive mode and $n-1$ degenerate modes, such as two Dirac cones for $n=3$. The band structure exhibits an $n$-fold rotational symmetry, including an $n$-fold warped light cone, in contrast to the single-band, parabolic approximation often assumed for interacting polaritons. For three photons, the dispersion breaks the symmetry between a photon pair propagating ahead versus behind a single photon. We confirm these findings experimentally by measuring the three-photon phase and intensity correlation functions, revealing trigonal warping of the quantum vortex-ring generated by the three-photon interactions. Our analytical results are supported by rigorous numerical modeling that fully accounts for the photon propagation before, inside, and after the finite atomic medium. These findings advance the understanding of multi-photon interactions and the development of future multi-photon control tools.

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