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Purcell effect predicts that spontaneous radiation is not an intrinsic property of matter, but is affected by the environment in which it is located, and is the result of the interaction of matter and field. Purcell effect can be inferred…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-08 Fei He , Ka-Di Zhu

We investigate spontaneous emission from a quantum emitter located within the mode volume of a microring resonator that features chiral exceptional points. We show that this configuration offers enough degrees of freedom to exhibit a full…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-17 Q. Zhong , A. Hashemi , S. K. Ozdemir , R. El-Ganainy

We study the modification of the atomic spontaneous emission rate, i.e. Purcell effect, of $^{87}$Rb in the vicinity of an optical nanofiber ($\sim$500 nm diameter). We observe enhancement and inhibition of the atomic decay rate depending…

Single-photon and correlated two-photon sources are important elements for optical information systems. Nonlinear downconversion light sources are robust and stable emitters of single photons and entangled photon pairs. However, the rate of…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-22 Artur R. Davoyan , Harry A. Atwater

We experimentally demonstrate a Purcell effect-based design technique for improved impedance matching, and thus enhanced radiation efficiency from a small microwave emitter. Using an iterative process centred on comparing the phase of the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-09-29 L. D. Stanfield , A. W. Powell , S. A. R. Horsley , J. R. Sambles , A. P. Hibbins

We investigate the spontaneous emission rate of a two-level quantum emitter near a graphene-coated substrate under the influence of an external magnetic field or strain induced pseudo-magnetic field. We demonstrate that the application of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 W. J. M. Kort-Kamp , B. Amorim , G. Bastos , F. A. Pinheiro , F. S. S. Rosa , N. M. R. Peres , C. Farina

The use of metamaterial as a way to mitigate the negative effects of absorption in metals on the Purcell effect in metal-dielectric structures is investigated. A layered metal-dielectric structure is considered as an anisotropic medium in…

This chapter overviews the principles of the spontaneous emission rate increase, that is the Purcell effect, in relation to the photonic parity-time (PT) symmetry. Being focused on the system of coupled PT-symmetric optical waveguides, we…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-22 Alina Karabchevsky , Andrey Novitsky , Fyodor Morozko

In superconducting qubits, suppression of spontaneous emission is essential to achieve fast dispersive measurement and reset without sacrificing qubit lifetime. We show that resonator-mediated decay of the qubit mode to the feedline can be…

The radiation dynamics of optical emitters can be manipulated by properly designed material structures providing high local density of photonic states, a phenomenon often referred to as the Purcell effect. Plasmonic nanorod metamaterials…

We investigate the spontaneous emission lifetime of a quantum emitter near a substrate coated with phosphorene under the influence of uniaxial strain. We consider both electric dipole and magnetic dipole-mediated spontaneous transitions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 P. P. Abrantes , W. J. M. Kort-Kamp , F. S. S. Rosa , C. Farina , F. A. Pinheiro , Tarik P. Cysne

Employing a medium-dependent quantum optics formalism and a Green function solution of Maxwell's equations, we study the enhanced spontaneous emission factors (Purcell factors) and Lamb shifts from a quantum dot or atom near the surface of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-13 Peijun Yao , C. Van Vlack , A. Reza , M. Patterson , M. M. Dignam , S. Hughes

Tailoring of electromagnetic spontaneous emission predicted by E. M. Purcell more than 50 years ago has undoubtedly proven to be one of the most important effects in the rich areas of quantum optics and nanophotonics. Although during the…

Nanoscale semiconductor lasers have been developed recently using either metal, metallo-dielectric or photonic crystal nanocavities. While the technology of nanolasers is steadily being deployed, their expected performance for on-chip…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-04 Bruno Romeira , Andrea Fiore

Multilayer hyperbolic metamaterials consisting of alternating metal and dielectric layers have important applications in spontaneous emission enhancement. In contrast to the conventional choice of at least dozens of layers in multilayer…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-15 Ling Li , Changjun Min , Xiaocong Yuan

Standard cavity cooling of atoms or dielectric particles is based on the action of dispersive optical forces in high-finesse cavities. We investigate here a complementary regime characterized by large cavity losses, resembling the standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Julian Lyne , Nico S. Bassler , Seong eun Park , Guido Pupillo , Claudiu Genes

This chapter, part of the Proceedings of the III International Workshop on Quantum Nonstationary Systems (eds. Alexandre Dodonov and Lucas Chibebe Celeri), held in Brasilia in August 2024, offers a comprehensive overview of spontaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 P. P. Abrantes , D. Szilard , C. Farina

The light emission rate of a single quantum dot can be drastically enhanced by embedding it in a resonant semiconductor microcavity. This phenomenon is known as the Purcell effect, and the coupling strength between emitter and cavity can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Munsch , A. Mosset , A. Auffèves , Signe Seidelin , J. P. Poizat , J. -M. Gérard , A. Lemaître , I. Sagnes , P. Senellart

We develop a theory for spontaneous decay of a quantum emitter (QE) situated near metal-dielectric structure supporting localized surface plasmons. If plasmon resonance is tuned close to the QE emission frequency, the emission is enhanced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Tigran V. Shahbazyan

We show that a two-level atom resonantly coupled to one of the modes of a cavity field can be used as a sensitive tool to measure the proper acceleration of a combined atom-cavity system. To achieve it we investigate the relation between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 Kacper Kożdoń , Ian T. Durham , Andrzej Dragan