Ergodicity breaking from Rydberg clusters in a driven-dissipative many-body system
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| author | Ding, Dong-Sheng Bai, Zhengyang Liu, Zong-Kai Shi, Bao-Sen Guo, Guang-Can Li, Weibin Adams, C. Stuart. |
| author_facet | Ding, Dong-Sheng Bai, Zhengyang Liu, Zong-Kai Shi, Bao-Sen Guo, Guang-Can Li, Weibin Adams, C. Stuart. |
| contents | It is challenging to probe ergodicity breaking trends of a quantum many-body system when dissipation inevitably damages quantum coherence originated from coherent coupling and dispersive two-body interactions. Rydberg atoms provide a test bed to detect emergent exotic many-body phases and non-ergodic dynamics where the strong Rydberg atom interaction competes with and overtakes dissipative effects even at room temperature. Here we report experimental evidence of a transition from ergodic towards ergodic breaking dynamics in driven-dissipative Rydberg atomic gases. The broken ergodicity is featured by the long-time phase oscillation, which is attributed from the formation of Rydberg excitation clusters in limit cycle phases. The broken symmetry in the limit cycle is a direct manifestation of many-body interactions, which is verified by tuning atomic densities in our experiment. The reported result reveals that Rydberg many-body systems are a promising candidate to probe ergodicity breaking dynamics, such as limit cycles, and enable the benchmark of non-equilibrium phase transition. |
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| spellingShingle | Ergodicity breaking from Rydberg clusters in a driven-dissipative many-body system Ding, Dong-Sheng Bai, Zhengyang Liu, Zong-Kai Shi, Bao-Sen Guo, Guang-Can Li, Weibin Adams, C. Stuart. Quantum Gases Quantum Physics It is challenging to probe ergodicity breaking trends of a quantum many-body system when dissipation inevitably damages quantum coherence originated from coherent coupling and dispersive two-body interactions. Rydberg atoms provide a test bed to detect emergent exotic many-body phases and non-ergodic dynamics where the strong Rydberg atom interaction competes with and overtakes dissipative effects even at room temperature. Here we report experimental evidence of a transition from ergodic towards ergodic breaking dynamics in driven-dissipative Rydberg atomic gases. The broken ergodicity is featured by the long-time phase oscillation, which is attributed from the formation of Rydberg excitation clusters in limit cycle phases. The broken symmetry in the limit cycle is a direct manifestation of many-body interactions, which is verified by tuning atomic densities in our experiment. The reported result reveals that Rydberg many-body systems are a promising candidate to probe ergodicity breaking dynamics, such as limit cycles, and enable the benchmark of non-equilibrium phase transition. |
| title | Ergodicity breaking from Rydberg clusters in a driven-dissipative many-body system |
| topic | Quantum Gases Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07032 |