We present two approaches capable of describing the dynamics of an interacting many-body system on a lattice coupled globally to a dissipative bosonic mode. Physical realizations are, for example, ultracold atom gases in optical lattice coupled to a photonic mode of an optical cavity or electronic gases in solids coupled to THz cavity fields. The first approach, applicable for large dissipation strengths and any system size, is a variant of the many-body adiabatic elimination method for investigating the long-time dynamics of the system. The second method extends the time-dependent matrix product techniques to capture the global coupling of the interacting particles to the bosonic mode and its open nature. It gives numerically exact results for small to intermediate system sizes. As a benchmark for our methods we perform the full quantum evolution of a Bose-Hubbard chain coupled to a cavity mode. We show that important deviations from the mean-field behavior occur when considering the full atoms cavity coupling [C.-M. Halati, A. Sheikhan, H. Ritsch, and C. Kollath, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 093604 (2020)].

• Received 22 April 2020
• Revised 22 October 2020
• Accepted 23 October 2020

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.043255

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