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ArticleNature communications2018

Resolution of superluminal signalling in non-perturbative cavity quantum electrodynamics.

Carlos Sánchez Muñoz, Franco Nori, Simone De Liberato

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Article in Nature communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Carlos Sánchez MuñozTheoretical Quantum Physics Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, Wako-shi, 351-0198, Saitama, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8775-0135
Franco NoriTheoretical Quantum Physics Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, Wako-shi, 351-0198, Saitama, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3682-7432
Simone De LiberatoSchool of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK. s.de-liberato@soton.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4851-2633

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent technological developments have made it increasingly easy to access the non-perturbative regimes of cavity quantum electrodynamics known as ultrastrong or deep strong coupling, where the light-matter coupling becomes comparable to the bare modal frequencies. In this work, we address the adequacy of the broadly used single-mode cavity approximation to describe such regimes. We demonstrate that, in the non-perturbative light-matter coupling regimes, the single-mode models become unphysical, allowing for superluminal signalling. Moreover, considering the specific example of the quantum Rabi model, we show that the multi-mode description of the electromagnetic field, necessary to account for light propagation at finite speed, yields physical observables that differ radically from their single-mode counterparts already for moderate values of the coupling. Our multi-mode analysis also reveals phenomena of fundamental interest on the dynamics of the intracavity electric field, where a free photonic wavefront and a bound state of virtual photons are shown to coexist.

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