We study cooperative behavior of quantum dipole emitters coupled to a rectangular waveguide with dielectric core and silver cladding. We investigate cooperative emission and inter-emitter entanglement generation phenomena for emitters whose resonant frequencies are near the frequency cutoff of the waveguide, where the waveguide effectively behaves as zero-index metamaterial. We show that coupling emitters to a zero-index waveguide allows one to relax the constraint on precision positioning of emitters for observing inter-emitter entanglement generation and extend the spatial scale at which the superradiance can be observed.
@article{arxiv.1510.07071,
title = {Cooperative behavior of quantum dipole emitters coupled to a zero-index nanoscale waveguide},
author = {Ruzan Sokhoyan and Harry A. Atwater},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.07071},
year = {2015}
}