Quantum Spin Dynamics with Pairwise-Tunable, Long-Range Interactions

We present a platform for the simulation of quantum magnetism with full control of interactions between pairs of spins at arbitrary distances in one- and two-dimensional lattices. In our scheme, two internal atomic states represent a pseudo-spin for atoms trapped within a photonic crystal waveguide (PCW). With the atomic transition frequency aligned inside a band gap of the PCW, virtual photons mediate coherent spin-spin interactions between lattice sites. To obtain full control of interaction coefficients at arbitrary atom-atom separations, ground-state energy shifts are introduced as a function of distance across the PCW. In conjunction with auxiliary pump fields, spin-exchange versus atom-atom separation can be engineered with arbitrary magnitude and phase, and arranged to introduce non-trivial Berry phases in the spin lattice, thus opening new avenues for realizing novel topological spin models. We illustrate the broad applicability of our scheme by explicit construction for several well known spin models.Comment: 18 pages, 10 figure

Quantum many-body models with cold atoms coupled to photonic crystals

Using cold atoms to simulate strongly interacting quantum systems represents an exciting frontier of physics. However, as atoms are nominally neutral point particles, this limits the types of interactions that can be produced. We propose to use the powerful new platform of cold atoms trapped near nanophotonic systems to extend these limits, enabling a novel quantum material in which atomic spin degrees of freedom, motion, and photons strongly couple over long distances. In this system, an atom trapped near a photonic crystal seeds a localized, tunable cavity mode around the atomic position. We find that this effective cavity facilitates interactions with other atoms within the cavity length, in a way that can be made robust against realistic imperfections. Finally, we show that such phenomena should be accessible using one-dimensional photonic crystal waveguides in which coupling to atoms has already been experimentally demonstrated

Decays of CP-even Higgs bosons H→liljH \rightarrow l_il_j in a 3-3-1 model with neutral leptons

The 3-3-1 model with neutral leptons contains four CP-even Higgs bosons when some constraints are imposed on the Higgs potential. Two Higgs bosons of this type are identified with the corresponding ones in the Two-Higgs-Doublet model (2HDM), an other being more massive does not couple with similar particles contained in the Standard Model (SM). The remaining particle is assumed to have no lepton-flavor-violating couplings. The contributions at one-loop order to $\mathrm{\Gamma}(\mathrm{H}\rightarrow l_il_j)$ come mainly from neutral leptons leading them to depend very strongly on mass of charged Higgs boson, masses and the mixing matrix ($V^L_{ab}$) of the neutral leptons. The numerical investigated results of $\mathrm{\Gamma}(\mathrm{H}\rightarrow l_il_j)$ in the spatial regions satisfying the experimental limit of lepton-flavor-violating decays of charged leptons (cLFV) indicate that the signal of SM-like Higgs boson ($\mathrm{\Gamma}(h^0_1\rightarrow l_il_j)$) approaches the upper bound of the experimental limit and $\mathrm{\Gamma}(\mathrm{H}\rightarrow l_il_j)$ can take large values in the case of $V^L_{ab} = U^L_{ab}(\pi/4,\pi/4,-\pi/4)$ and smaller in the case of $V^L_{ab} = U^L_{ab}(\pi/4,0,0)$. Further, some distinct properties of $\mathrm{\Gamma}(h^0_2\rightarrow l_il_j)$ and $\mathrm{\Gamma}(h^0_3\rightarrow l_il_j)$ are also discussed.Comment: 37 pages, 21 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2204.0110

Rare K decays in a model of quark and lepton masses

An extension of a model of neutrino masses to the quark sector provides an interesting link between these two sectors. A parameter which is important to describe neutrino oscillations and masses is found to be a crucial one appearing in various ``penguin'' operators, in particular the so-called Z penguin. This parameter is severely constrained by the rare decay process $K_{L} \to \mu^{+} \mu^{-}$. This in turn has interesting implications on the decay rates of other rare processes such as $K_{L} \to \mu e$, etc..., as well as on the masses of the neutrinos and the masses of the vector-like quarks and leptons which appear in our model.Comment: 34 pages, 10 figures, corrected some typos in the introductio

Superradiance for atoms trapped along a photonic crystal waveguide

We report observations of superradiance for atoms trapped in the near field of a photonic crystal waveguide (PCW). By fabricating the PCW with a band edge near the D$_1$ transition of atomic cesium, strong interaction is achieved between trapped atoms and guided-mode photons. Following short-pulse excitation, we record the decay of guided-mode emission and find a superradiant emission rate scaling as $\bar{\Gamma}_{\rm SR}\propto\bar{N}\cdot\Gamma_{\rm 1D}$ for average atom number $0.19 \lesssim \bar{N} \lesssim 2.6$ atoms, where $\Gamma_{\rm 1D}/\Gamma_0 =1.1\pm0.1$ is the peak single-atom radiative decay rate into the PCW guided mode and $\Gamma_{0}$ is the Einstein-$A$ coefficient for free space. These advances provide new tools for investigations of photon-mediated atom-atom interactions in the many-body regime.Comment: 11 pages, 10 figure

Kaluza-Klein Structure Associated With Fat Brane

It is known that the imposition of orbifold boundary conditions on background scalar field can give rise to a non-trivial vacuum expectation value (VEV) along extra dimensions, which in turn generates fat branes and associated unconventional Kaluza-Klein (KK) towers of fermions. We study the structure of these KK towers in the limit of one large extra dimension and show that normalizable (bound) states of massless and massive fermions can exist at both orbifold fixed points. Closer look however indicates that orbifold boundary conditions act to suppress at least half of bound KK modes, while periodic boundary conditions tend to drive the high-lying modes to the conventional structure. By investigating the scattering of fermions on branes, we analytically compute masses and wavefunctions of KK spectra in the presence of these boundary conditions up to one-loop level. Implication of KK-number non-conservation couplings on the Coulomb potential is also examined.Comment: RevTex4, 29 pages, 7 ps figures, new references adde