Introduction to the Dicke Model: From Equilibrium to Nonequilibrium, and Vice Versa

P Kirton, MM Roses, J Keeling… - Advanced Quantum …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The Dicke model describes the coupling between a quantized cavity field and a large
ensemble of two‐level atoms. When the number of atoms tends to infinity, this model can …

Open quantum systems with local and collective incoherent processes: Efficient numerical simulations using permutational invariance

N Shammah, S Ahmed, N Lambert, S De Liberato… - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
The permutational invariance of identical two-level systems allows for an exponential
reduction in the computational resources required to study the Lindblad dynamics of …

Discrete time-crystalline order in cavity and circuit QED systems

Z Gong, R Hamazaki, M Ueda - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Discrete time crystals are a recently proposed and experimentally observed out-of-
equilibrium dynamical phase of Floquet systems, where the stroboscopic dynamics of a local …

Dicke time crystals in driven-dissipative quantum many-body systems

B Zhu, J Marino, NY Yao, MD Lukin… - New Journal of …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The Dicke model—a paradigmatic example of superradiance in quantum optics—describes
an ensemble of atoms which are collectively coupled to a leaky cavity mode. As a result of …

Nonequilibrium phase transition in a spin-1 Dicke model

Z Zhiqiang, CH Lee, R Kumar, KJ Arnold, SJ Masson… - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
The Dicke model is a paradigm of collective behavior in quantum mechanics describing an
ensemble of N two-level atoms interacting with a single mode of the electromagnetic field …

Suppressing and restoring the dicke superradiance transition by dephasing and decay

P Kirton, J Keeling - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
We show that dephasing of individual atoms destroys the superradiance transition of the
Dicke model, but that adding individual decay toward the spin down state can restore this …

[HTML][HTML] Room-temperature spontaneous superradiance from single diamond nanocrystals

C Bradac, MT Johnsson, M Breugel… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Superradiance (SR) is a cooperative phenomenon which occurs when an ensemble of
quantum emitters couples collectively to a mode of the electromagnetic field as a single …

Symmetries and conserved quantities of boundary time crystals in generalized spin models

G Piccitto, M Wauters, F Nori, N Shammah - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We investigate how symmetries and conserved quantities relate to the occurrence of the
boundary time crystal (BTC) phase in a generalized spin model with Lindblad dissipation …

Superradiant and lasing states in driven-dissipative Dicke models

P Kirton, J Keeling - New Journal of Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the non-equilibrium phase diagram of a model which can demonstrate both
Dicke–Hepp–Lieb superradiance and regular lasing by varying the coherent and incoherent …

Validity of mean-field theory in a dissipative critical system: Liouvillian gap, -symmetric antigap, and permutational symmetry in the model

D Huybrechts, F Minganti, F Nori, M Wouters… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We study the all-to-all connected XYZ (anisotropic-Heisenberg) spin model with local and
collective dissipations, comparing the results of mean-field (MF) theory with the solution of …