title: Quench dynamics of a disordered array of dissipative coupled cavities.
abstract: We investigate the mean-field dynamics of a system of interacting photons in an array of coupled cavities in the presence of dissipation and disorder. We follow the evolution of an initially prepared Fock state, and show how the interplay between dissipation and disorder affects the coherence properties of the cavity emission, and show that these properties can be used as signatures of the many-body phase of the whole array.
authors.affiliation: Cavendish Laboratory , University of Cambridge , CB3 0HE Cambridge UK.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Creatore
authors.affiliation: NEST , Scuola Normale Superiore and Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR , I-56127 Pisa Italy.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fazio
authors.affiliation: Scottish Universities Physics Alliance , School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews , St Andrews KY16 9SS UK.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Keeling
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering , Princeton University , Princeton, NJ08544 USA.
authors.forename: H E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Türeci
keywords: cavity quantum electrodynamics; disorder; many-body physics; non-equilibrium physics