Description
We investigate the driven-dissipative dynamics of 1D arrays of multilevel atoms interacting via photon mediated dipole-dipole interactions and trapped at subwavelength scales. In contrast to two-level atoms, we show that multilevel atoms in the low excitation (weak drive) regime can become strongly entangled. The entanglement arises from the action of a non-trivial effective Hamiltonian and jump operators that contain multi-body terms acting on the ground state manifold, and survives even after turning off the drive. We propose to use the $\sim 2.9 \mu$m transition between $\rm ^3P_2 \leftrightarrow \, ^3D_3$ in $\rm ^{88}Sr$ with $389$nm trapping light as an ideal experimental platform for validating our predictions and as a novel quantum interface for the exploration of complex many-body phenomena emerging from light-matter interactions.
| Presenter name | Sanaa Agarwal |
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