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Many-Body Amplified Nonclassical Photon Emission in Cavity-Coupled Atomic Arrays

Quantum Physics 2026-04-20 v1

Abstract

The generation of high-performance nonclassical light remains a cornerstone of quantum technologies, yet faces a fundamental trade-off between emission purity and brightness. Here, we demonstrate that cavity-mediated many-body spin-exchange interactions provide a route to overcome this constraint by collectively amplifying spectral anharmonicity. In a cavity-coupled atomic array with a programmable relative phase ϕ\phi, the resulting interference-interaction mechanism reshapes the dressed-state manifold and enables deterministic switching between distinct quantum emission regimes. For ϕ=0\phi=0, constructive interference yields high-purity single-photon emission with antibunching improved by four orders of magnitude while preserving strong photon flux. Conversely, for ϕ=π\phi=\pi, destructive interference creates a dark single-photon manifold, resonantly activating two-photon processes to produce bright and pure photon-pair bundles. Our work establishes interference-engineered many-body interactions as a scalable mechanism for on-demand quantum light generation and open a new avenue for harnessing collective many-body physics in quantum photonics.

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@article{arxiv.2604.15604,
  title  = {Many-Body Amplified Nonclassical Photon Emission in Cavity-Coupled Atomic Arrays},
  author = {Tang Jing and Yuangang Deng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.15604},
  year   = {2026}
}

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8 pages, 4 figures