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Super-Poissonian Squeezed Light in the Ground State of Strongly Coupled Light-matter Systems

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18242v1
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2025 06:54:35 GMT
Title: Super-Poissonian Squeezed Light in the Ground State of Strongly Coupled Light-matter Systems
Authors: Cankut Tasci, Mohammad Hassan, Leon Orlov-Sullivan, Leonardo A. Cunha, Johannes Flick,
Abstract summary: We compute ground-state photonic observables including photon number fluctuations, second-order correlations, and quadrature variances.<n>We find squeezing and super-Poissonian photon statistics emerging from light-matter interactions in the strong coupling regime.<n>Our results demonstrate that capturing the full hierarchy of many-body, electron-photon and multi-photon correlations is essential for a consistent description of quantum-optical properties in strongly coupled molecular systems.
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Abstract: Strong light-matter coupling enables hybrid states in which photonic and electronic degrees of freedom become correlated even in the ground state. While many-body effects in long-range dispersion interactions are known to reshape electronic properties under such conditions, their impact on quantum-optical observables remains largely unexplored. Here, we address this problem using quantum electrodynamical density-functional theory (QEDFT) combined with the recently developed photon-many-body dispersion (pMBD) functional, which can capture higher-order electron-photon correlations and multi-photon processes. We compute ground-state photonic observables including photon number fluctuations, second-order correlations, and quadrature variances, and find squeezing and super-Poissonian photon statistics emerging from light-matter interactions in the strong coupling regime. Our results demonstrate that capturing the full hierarchy of many-body, electron-photon and multi-photon correlations is essential for a consistent description of quantum-optical properties in strongly coupled molecular systems, establishing QEDFT as a first-principles framework for predicting nonclassical photonic features in the ground state of complex systems.

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