Orientational alignment in cavity quantum electrodynamics

Jonathan Mark James Keeling; Peter George Kirton

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.97.053836

Orientational alignment in cavity quantum electrodynamics

Jonathan Mark James Keeling, Peter George Kirton

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We consider the orientational alignment of dipoles due to strong matter-light coupling, for a non-vanishing density of excitations. We compare various approaches to this problem in the limit of large numbers of emitters, and show that direct Monte Carlo integration, mean-field theory, and large deviation methods match exactly in this limit. All three results show that orientational alignment develops in the presence of a macroscopically occupied polariton mode, and that the dipoles asymptotically approach perfect alignment in the limit of high density or low temperature.

Original language	English
Article number	053836
Journal	Physical Review. A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
Volume	97
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.97.053836
Publication status	Published - 29 May 2018

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Hybrid Polaritonics: Hybrid Polaritonics
Samuel, I. D. W. (PI), Höfling, S. (CoI), Keeling, J. M. J. (CoI) & Turnbull, G. (CoI)
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Keeling, J. M. J. (Creator) & Kirton, P. G. (Contributor), University of St Andrews, 23 May 2018
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