Density Wave Ordering with Disordered Ultracold Fermions in Optical Cavities

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.30769v1
• Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:03:02 GMT
• Title: Density Wave Ordering with Disordered Ultracold Fermions in Optical Cavities
• Abstract summary: We investigate the interplay between cavity-induced density-wave ordering and controllable disorder in ultracold fermions.<n>In momentum space, this disorder converts the usual coupling between the cavity mode and a discrete set of density-wave Fourier components into a coupling to a continuum of fermionic density modes.<n>Our findings identify both the emitted cavity light and in situ density images as probes of engineered disorder in fermionic matter coupled to optical cavities.
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• Abstract: We investigate the interplay between cavity-induced density-wave ordering and controllable disorder in a trapped two-dimensional gas of ultracold fermions. The atoms are dispersively coupled to an optical cavity and transversely driven by a pump beam, while an additional speckle beam spatially modulates the atom-light coupling through an AC-Stark shift of the atomic transition. In momentum space, this disorder converts the usual coupling between the cavity mode and a discrete set of density-wave Fourier components into a coupling to a continuum of fermionic density modes, weighted by the spectrum of the speckle pattern. Using linear response theory, we derive the superradiant threshold and show that the disordered interaction renormalizes the effective light-matter coupling, lowering the critical pump strength on average, with the threshold becoming self-averaging for short speckle correlation lengths. We complement this analysis with a numerical mean-field treatment that gives access to the intracavity photon number and to the real-space fermion density across the transition. These results confirm that the disorder shifts the photonic phase boundary and, above threshold, distorts the density-wave crystal by populating Fourier components beyond those selected by the clean cavity geometry. Our findings identify both the emitted cavity light and in situ density images as probes of engineered disorder in fermionic matter coupled to optical cavities.

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