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We study the dynamics of a single collective excitation in a cold ensemble of atoms coupled to a one-dimensional waveguide. The coupling between the atoms and the photonic modes provides a coherent and a dissipative dynamics for this…

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Optomechanics, the study of the mechanical interaction of light with matter, has proven to be a fruitful area of research that has yielded many notable achievements, including the direct detection of gravitational waves in kilometer-scale…

The quantum dynamics of optomechanical systems was mostly studied for their fluctuations around classical steady states. We present a theoretical approach to determining the system observables of optomechanical systems as genuine quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-21 Bing He

The Kuramoto model is a mathematical model for describing the collective synchronization phenomena of coupled oscillators. We theoretically demonstrate that an array of coupled photonic crystal lasers emulates the Kuramoto model with…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-07 Naotomo Takemura , Kenta Takata , Masato Takiguchi , Masaya Notomi

Spontaneous synchronization is a remarkable collective effect observed in nature, whereby a population of oscillating units, which have diverse natural frequencies and are in weak interaction with one another, evolves to spontaneously…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-08-23 Stefano Gherardini , Shamik Gupta , Stefano Ruffo

The collective dynamics in populations of magnetic spin torque oscillators (STO) is an intensely studied topic in modern magnetism. Here, we show that arrays of STO coupled via dipolar fields can be modeled using a variant of the Kuramoto…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-06 Vegard Flovik , Ferran Macià , Erik Wahlström

We consider a quantum optomechanical scheme wherein an ordered two-dimensional array of laser-trapped atoms is used as a movable membrane. The extremely light mass of the atoms yields very strong optomechanical coupling, while their spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-04 Ephraim Shahmoon , Dominik S. Wild , Mikhail D. Lukin , Susanne F. Yelin

Akhmediev breather has attracted considerable attention over the past decades in various fields such as hydrodynamics, plasma physics, and nonlinear optics because its wide applications and its importance in understanding nonlinear coherent…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-14 Hao Xiong , Ying Wu

Synchronization is a ubiquitous scientific phenomenon in various physical systems. Here, we examine the feasibility of generating multistable and dynamically tunable synchronization by using the technique of Floquet engineering. Applying a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Motoki Asano , Hajime Okamoto , Hiroshi Yamaguchi

We characterize the local properties of an optomechanical system comprising the movable mirror of a resonator and its intracavity field, mutually coupled via radiation-pressure. Our approach shows that both the state of the mirror and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-16 S. Groeblacher , S. Gigan , M. Paternostro

We study the driven-dissipative dynamics of photons interacting with an array of micromechanical membranes in an optical cavity. Periodic membrane driving and phonon creation result in an effective photon-number conserving non-unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-24 A. Tomadin , S. Diehl , M. D. Lukin , P. Rabl , P. Zoller

The Kuramoto model and its generalizations have been broadly employed to characterize and mechanistically understand various collective dynamical phenomena, especially the emergence of synchrony among coupled oscillators. Despite almost…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-05-16 Seungjae Lee , Lucas Braun , Frieder Bönisch , Malte Schröder , Moritz Thümler , Marc Timme

Resonant dipole-dipole interaction modifies the energy and decay rate of electronic excitations for finite one dimensional chains of ultracold atoms in an optical lattice. We show that collective excited states of the atomic chain can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-07 Hashem Zoubi , Helmut Ritsch

Artificial gauge fields for neutral particles such as photons, recently attracted a lot of attention in various fields ranging from photonic crystals to ultracold atoms in optical lattices to optomechanical arrays. Here we point out that,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Stefan Walter , Florian Marquardt

Optomechanical devices have been cooled to ground-state and genuine quantum features, as well as long-predicted nonlinear phenomena, have been observed. When packing close enough more than one optomechanical unit in the same substrate the…

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Atomic planar arrays offer a novel emerging quantum-optical many-body system in which light mediates strong interactions between the atoms. The regular lattice structure provides a cooperatively enhanced light-matter coupling and allows for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-18 Janne Ruostekoski

Synchronization is a fundamental phenomenon in complex systems, observed across a wide range of natural and engineered contexts. The Kuramoto model provides a foundational framework for understanding synchronization among coupled…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-02-03 Riccardo Muolo , Hiroya Nakao , Marco Coraggio

The nonlinear component of the optomechanical interaction between light and mechanical vibration promises many exciting classical and quantum mechanical applications, but is generally weak. Here we demonstrate enhancement of nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-21 Roel Burgwal , Ewold Verhagen

The interaction of an atom with an electromagnetic field is discussed in the presence of a time periodic external modulating force. It is explained that a control on atom by electromagnetic fields helps to design the quantum analog of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Farhan Saif

The mechanical influence on objects due to their interaction with light has been a central topic in atomic physics for decades. Thus, one finds that many concepts developed to describe cavity optomechanical systems with solid-state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-20 Dan M. Stamper-Kurn