Marvin Röhrle, Jens Benary, Erik Bernhart, Herwig Ott:
🔓 arXiv:2312.09848 (2023)
Dissipative phase transitions are characteristic features in open quantum systems. Key signatures are the dynamical switching between different states in the vicinity of the phase transition and the appearance of hysteresis. Here, we experimentally study dynamic sweeps across a first order dissipative phase transition in a multi-mode driven-dissipative system. In contrast to previous studies, we perform sweeps of the dissipation strength instead of the driving strength. We extract exponents for the scaling of the hysteresis area in dependence of the sweep time and study the g(2)(0) correlations, which show non-trivial behavior. Due to the multi-mode nature of the system, we can also study the influence of the temperature on the hysteresis area. We compare our results to numerical calculations done for a single mode variant of the system, and find surprisingly good agreement. Furthermore, we identify and discuss the differences between a scan of the dissipation strength and a scan of the driving strength.