A dissipatively stabilized Mott insulator of photons

R Ma, B Saxberg, C Owens, N Leung, Y Lu, J Simon… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Superconducting circuits are a competitive platform for quantum computation because they
offer controllability, long coherence times and strong interactions—properties that are …

Cooling and autonomous feedback in a bose-hubbard chain with attractive interactions

S Hacohen-Gourgy, VV Ramasesh, C De Grandi… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
We engineer a quantum bath that enables entropy and energy exchange with a one-
dimensional Bose-Hubbard lattice with attractive on-site interactions. We implement this in …

Topological Chern vectors in three-dimensional photonic crystals

GG Liu, Z Gao, Q Wang, X Xi, YH Hu, M Wang, C Liu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The paradigmatic example of a topological phase of matter, the two-dimensional Chern
insulator,,,–, is characterized by a topological invariant consisting of a single integer, the …

Photon transport in a Bose-Hubbard chain of superconducting artificial atoms

GP Fedorov, SV Remizov, DS Shapiro, WV Pogosov… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We demonstrate nonequilibrium steady-state photon transport through a chain of five
coupled artificial atoms simulating the driven-dissipative Bose-Hubbard model. Using …

Observation of the Mott insulator to superfluid crossover of a driven-dissipative Bose-Hubbard system

T Tomita, S Nakajima, I Danshita, Y Takasu… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Dissipation is ubiquitous in nature and plays a crucial role in quantum systems such as
causing decoherence of quantum states. Recently, much attention has been paid to an …

A quantized microwave quadrupole insulator with topologically protected corner states

CW Peterson, WA Benalcazar, TL Hughes, G Bahl - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The theory of electric polarization in crystals defines the dipole moment of an insulator in
terms of a Berry phase (geometric phase) associated with its electronic ground state,. This …

Cooling and entangling ultracold atoms in optical lattices

B Yang, H Sun, CJ Huang, HY Wang, Y Deng, HN Dai… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Scalable, coherent many-body systems can enable the realization of previously unexplored
quantum phases and have the potential to exponentially speed up information processing …

A quantum gas microscope for detecting single atoms in a Hubbard-regime optical lattice

WS Bakr, JI Gillen, A Peng, S Fölling, M Greiner - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Recent years have seen tremendous progress in creating complex atomic many-body
quantum systems. One approach is to use macroscopic, effectively thermodynamic …

Probing the superfluid–to–mott insulator transition at the single-atom level

WS Bakr, A Peng, ME Tai, R Ma, J Simon, JI Gillen… - Science, 2010 - science.org
Quantum gases in optical lattices offer an opportunity to experimentally realize and explore
condensed matter models in a clean, tunable system. We used single atom–single lattice …

Disorder-assisted assembly of strongly correlated fluids of light

B Saxberg, A Vrajitoarea, G Roberts, MG Panetta… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Guiding many-body systems to desired states is a central challenge of modern quantum
science, with applications from quantum computation, to many-body physics and quantum …